Lady Bunny News

If it just isn't Christmas until you've heard Lady Bunny butcher your favorite Christmas carol, you are sure to be joyful and triumphant as the legendary drag icon presents the World Premiere of LADY BUNNY: OH, COME ALL YE HATEFUL! beginning December 8 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Social media, the news, annoying friends... It can leave a person wanting to scream 'Shut the eff up!' Legendary drag entertainer JACKIE BEAT, ever the lady, simply holds a well-manicured finger to her overdrawn lips and quietly begs, DON'T SPEAK.

History is being made.  For the first time ever, Drag Queen royalty Jackie Beat, Lady Bunny, Varla Jean Merman and Miss Coco Peru will join forces to headline the “Legends of Drag” Inaugural Cruise with Master of Ceremonies Frank DeCaro.

Host D'Arcy Drollinger will be joined by a cavalcade of stars and San Francisco luminaries including Sister Roma, Heklina, Juanita More, Glamamore, Peaches Christ, Alaska, Lady Bunny, Ben De La Creme, Justin Bond, Leigh Crow, Jackie Beat, Sherry Vine, Trixie Mattel, Honey Mahogany, Rock M. Sakura, Snaxx, Matthew Martin, Chyna Maykit,

The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, Youth Pride Chorus, and Tonewall today announced that HARMONY, the annual Valentine themed fundraiser supporting NYCGMC, Youth Pride Chorus, and Tonewall will be hosted by SiriusXM personality Seth Rudetsky and producer James Wesley.

We may be stuck at home for the holidays, but the season just got a whole lot brighter, hunty. As many live performance venues remain closed across the country and holiday tours have been canceled, Producers Murray Hodgson and Peter Hendrickson (Murray & Peter Present) today announced that the 2020 tour of their outrageous annual Christmas drag show will be available as a special streaming version this year. 

Palm Springs International Comedy Festival launches on October 11 with over 200 streaming films, over 180 comedians, over 75 celebrities.

Today, Ben's 'All Beef Patti' is the 1998 Tony Award Nominations Best Featured Actress In a Play and Daniel's 'Who Do You Think You Are?' is Lady Bunny performing at the Pyramid Club. Tune in today, July 2 at 10:30am to watch live!

American Masters joins PBS' summer-long celebration of female trailblazers in honor of the women's vote centennial with three new documentaries exploring the lives of remarkable changemakers, both past and present.

Following the wildly successful Werq The World live stream event, VOSS Events presents Werq the World Live Stream: Battle Royal a new global benefit hosted once again by Bianca Del Rio in Los Angeles and Lady Bunny in New York.

As entertainers shift to virtual performances while social distancing, VOSS Events presents Werq the World Live Stream a global benefit hosted by Bianca Del Rio in Los Angeles and Lady Bunny in New York.

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre - the monthly gathering of the International Order of Sodomites, the centuries-old organization which sets the mythic Gay Agenda - will return to Joe's Pubthis season for regular performances after a three year hiatus. The Meeting*, now the longest-running LGBTQ variety show in New York, is known for its audacious humor, trailblazing political discourse and button-pushing cultural exploration. Sayre will present two different evenings next month, celebrating 'The Ladies of Country' on Monday, March 2, and honoring 'The Ladies of Disco' on Sunday, March 29, both at 9:30 PM. Special guests for March 2 include Bridget Barkan, Melody Berger, Drew Droege, Larry Krone, and Bobby Blue the Balladeer, with additional names to be announced. Shows are scheduled through December 2020, with the spring season continuing on April 26 and May 31. Tracy Stark serves as music director for the series.

Yours truly and the rest of her audience on the night were aching with laughter most of the time. She is also a very good singer and a funny B!+ch. She plays with the audience and plays TO the audience.

Freeform announced today that it will air “31 Nights of Halloween Fan Fest,” an all-star party in celebration of Halloween classics like “Hocus Pocus” and “The Addams Family,” plus a 35th anniversary tribute to “Ghostbusters” and a 50th anniversary tribute to “The Haunted Mansion.” The 90-minute special, filming at the iconic Hollywood Forever Cemetery on THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, will premiere on SATURDAY, OCT. 5, at 8:00 PM EDT/PDT as part of Freeform's “31 Nights of Halloween” programming event.

Late one night in 1984, drag queen Lady Bunny and a few friends drunkenly wandered from the Pyramid Club in New York's East Village to Tompkins Square Park, staging an impromptu drag show in the band shell. This annual drag bacchanal, which would become known as Wigstock, signaled the end of summer in glamorous fashion for the gay community in NYC and lasted almost 20 years.

LA MAMA SQUIRTS - presented by La MaMa, the Tony Award-winning theater in NYC, in association with Helix Queer Performance Network - will gather a collective of exciting voices from New York City's queer performance world, across multiple generations and with deep roots in the community to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, with a weekend of performances curated by three trans women, May 31 - June 2 at Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 East 4th Street) in Manhattan as part of World Pride celebration.

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the leadership of Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Producer Diane Borger announced its 201920 Season programming today, including subscription offerings, A.R.T. Breakout, Afterglow @ OBERON, Live @ OBERON, the Run AMOC! Festival, The Donkey Show, and A.R.T. in the World.

Morgan/Foster Entertainment presents the second Miss Gay Melrose America (MGMA) preliminary pageant, to be held at Stacy's @ Melrose, March 2, 2019. It is one of seven Arizona-based preliminary pageants sanctioned by the Miss Gay America pageant and is the first to be held in Phoenix's iconic and historic Woodlea Melrose neighborhood. Stacy's @ Melrose is located at 4343 North 7th Avenue. All fundraising efforts for the pageant are donated to RipplePHX, a back-to-grass-roots project created for our LGBTQ Community to address today's HIV virus through impact-focused splashes of awareness, love, and celebrations of individual sexual expression.

L'Affaire Musicale, Orlove Entertainment & 89.9 KCRW are pleased to present the delectable world of Bryan Rabin and Adam Bravin's Giorgio's. Now approaching its sixth glorious year, Giorgio's, the iconic Discotheque born on the Sunset Strip at The Standard Hotel, and named after legendary producer Giorgio Moroder is going live once again activating it's second annual concert experience at the infamous Globe Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles (740 S Broadway) on Saturday, April 27 with tickets available through this link. 

Queer|Art, the New York City-based non-profit supporting the creative and professional development of LGBTQ artists, continues the Winter 2019 season of Queer|Art|Film at IFC Center on March 4 and April 8. Queer|Art|Film, presented by HBO, is a monthly screening series in which some of New York's most unique artists present and discuss the films that have most inspired them. This season Queer Art's flipping the script by inviting celebrated drag queens to present and discuss films that have inspired their craft in post-screening kikis. Curated by Adam Baran and Brooklyn drag diva Lady Quesadilla, this season entitled 'Winter's a Drag,' serves as the sequel to the 2014 Summer of Drag season. More info is below; screenings begin at 8pm.