Mae West News

triangle productions! has unveiled its 36th season. This year, triangle aimed to find shows that made you laugh, and have a tear or two roll down your cheeks. Learn more here!

Audible will present The Pansy Craze, a six-part series written and created by Hunter Bird and Mason Alexander Park, hosted by Mason Alexander Park and featuring Lachlan Watson. Learn more!

At the Crane Theater, Walking Shadow Theatre Company isn’t just reviving history — it’s exhuming it, dusting it off, and tossing it unapologetically under the spotlight. Mae West and the Trial of Sex, a new play written by Artistic Director John Heimbuch and directed by Allison Vincent, dives headlong into the scandal, subversion, and censorship of 1920s Broadway — and finds the modern resonance humming just beneath the fringe.

Acclaimed Black Filipinx playwright and Kilroys List honoree Roger Q. Mason will receive a staged reading of their play THE PRIDE OF LIONS, directed by é boylan with original dramaturgy by Gaven Trinidad

Fancy (the cult camp character based on the song 'Fancy' by Bobbie Gentry and made famous by Reba McEntire ) returns to the Hollywood Fringe Theatre Festival. Learn more.

A superb troupe of five actors and a great trumpet player (Michael A. Thomas) do everything in their toolkit to realize Dominique Morisseau's significant play, Paradise Blue, about a Detroit jazz club caught in the post-World War II 'urban renewal' which tampered with Black neighborhoods and lifestyles in American cities nationwide.

'Come Up and See Me Sometime' is billed as a contemporary retelling of the life and career of the iconic stage and screen star of the golden age, Mae West. The musical will have an industry reading.

With facial expressions and reactions reminiscent of another redheaded Lucy we all love, the darling Darling keeps her audience in the palm of her sleight of hand.

Writer's Desk Entertainment will present the World Premiere of THE TRUNK, a new play by Jon Seresi. Directed by Anthony Misiano, performances begin March 28 at The Flea. Learn more!

You may not know the 1930s icon, but you definitely have seen the effects of her life. Nearly every siren, diva, and pop tart owes a little bit of their persona to Mae West.

“Her influence is like the threads in the tapestries of many different artists today. The idea of a woman taking things into her own hands, using her voice unabashedly, and being funny and sexy at the same time really resonates with me.” --Francesca DiFrancesco

Acclaimed Black Filipinx playwright and Kilroys List honoree Roger Q. Mason will receive a staged reading of their play THE PRIDE OF LIONS, directed by legendary intimacy coordinator Ann James with dramaturgy by Gaven Trinidad, at The Tank.

EgoPo’s first mainstage production of their Queer Revolutions season will be Mae West’s censored camp classic, The Drag. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

EgoPo’s 2024-2025 season will celebrate some of the century’s most influential Queer plays and theater artists that have had a lasting impact on our culture. Learn more about the lineup here!

We all love Dolly. She wrote all the songs for 9 to 5. On Broadway, the musical had a short life, as did attempts on London’s West End. UK tours and those in Australia met a quick demise. Plan B: license to regional theatres. The show’s producers added a vid with Dolly herself at opening curtain singing the title number. It’s a buoyant anthem about the struggles of working a 9 to 5 job female empowerment and control of one’s future.

Breton Tyner-Bryan's Broadway Dance Drama short, WEST OF FRANK, is now streaming on CUNY TV. The film, nominated for Best LGBTQ Film at the London Fashion Film Festival, celebrates influential women and transmasculine activists.

Breton Tyner-Bryan's award-winning Broadway Dance Drama short, WEST OF FRANK, will premiere at the London Fashion Film Festival. The film recently won Audience and Best Experimental awards at AFFI Berlin and Barcelona.

Odd Salon NYC relocates to Parkside Lounge, offering an evening of engaging storytelling and unique lectures. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Living in Palm Springs sitting down with Broadway gypsy Joe Giamalva who has played in many arenas from stage to screen as a sought-after actor/dancer/producer. He also entertained several generations of television viewers on Saturday morning children’s classics H.R. PufnStuf, Land Of The Lost, and Disney Channel favorites. Joe is working on a brand new one-man show about his life and career.

What did our critic think of MAE WEST'S THE DRAG at Theatre In The Round?