We’ve had Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, Michael C. Hall and the recent stint from John Cameron Mitchell playing Broadway’s take on Hedwig And The Angry Inch, and now it’s Glee star Darren Criss’ turn.
And in what has fast become a bit on an anticipated tradition, we’ve not got the first pic of the actor in the character’s glittery make-up. He does look pretty, although less androgymous than you might expect.
Hedwig is the show’s East German title character, who was left with an angry inch after a botched sex change operation that she had in order to get into the US with her American GI lover. Hedwig then started dating young Tommy Gnosis, who left her behind when he took her music and became a rock star – leaving her understandably bitter (but still very funny).
Criss is playing the role on Broadway from April 29th to July 19th.
Nowadays actors are generally left to come out (or not) on their own terms, but back in the 90s it was still a scoop to forcibly out someone for no other good reason than trying to sell copies of newspapers and magazines. That happened to Chad Allen in 1996, at a time when he was fast becoming one of TVs hottest young stars as part of the cast of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. Photographs of him kissing a man were sold to tabloid, and he was forced out whether he wanted to or not.
It’s odd that in their animated movies Disney is content that fairytale people can have American accents, but when they turn live-action everything gets very British, whether it’s Angelina Jolie adopting an English accent for Maleficent or the fact most of the cast of Cinderella were Brits.
Casts don’t get much better than Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston, but that’s who Netflix have managed to get together for the upcoming Grace & Frankie. Now they’re showcasing the series with a trailer and a set of posters which you can see above and blow.
Just a couple of years ago many scoffed at the idea that an online service such as Netflix could produce television that could compete with network entertainment, and that the streaming service was just throwing money away by trying it.
The trans-themed 52 Tuesdays gained huge amounts of acclaim on the festival circuit, and now ahead of it UK cinemas release in August comes a trailer which suggest this will be one that’s really going to be worth looking out for..
Just over a year ago we posted ago a 
With TV still having a tough time producing (and sustaining) decent gay-themed entertainment, a lot of the most interesting work is going on in the world of the internet with web series. Now there’s a new one on the block – or at least the makers hope there will be – called Alphabet Boys.
It’s a shame that it’s so tough for LGBT short films to get funded, as many of those that do get made are brilliant, so it makes you wonder what we miss out on simply because the cash isn’t available. The people behind Breathe are hoping to ensure that doesn’t include them, as they’ve set up a 
A couple of weeks ago we posted that Eating Out filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka had signed up to direct upcoming episodes of the web series People You Know, which plans to shoot seven more episodes this summer, which will complete Season 1.