The Arts

1Voice/1Play/1Day Project1Voice Honors Women with a Staged Reading of For Colored Girls… by Chael Needle Project1VOICE, a national organization that seeks to strengthen and promote African-American theater…

Positively Beautiful Directed by Diveena Cooppan Mo Berry Productions/Wicked Delicate Reviewed by T.J. Banks When you come to the edge of all the light you have known and…

The Next Step dance4life, a global organization empowering youth in the fight against HIV, gains a foothold in the U.S. by Chip Alfred Ten years ago, it…

Flamboyant, funny, outrageous, glamorous, bawdy, while also very much “the guy next door” (in a funny, glamorous way that is), Merce captures, ever so…

Dance of Hope Two Israeli Artists Create a Dance Production About Learning to Live with HIV by Chip Alfred Sahar Azimi has been a dancer and choreographer…

Singer Gibbor Green Takes the Lead in Empowering Youth by Chael Needle Gibbor Green recently dropped the Twitter-inspired “#FOLLOWME,” an ode to hash-tagging what’s important: celebrating…

Independent filmmakers Catalina and Michael Gonzalez build family while bringing dramatic light to AIDS, addiction and other impediments facing today’s LGBT youth through their…

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City Music and lyrics by Jake Shears and John Garden, book by Jeff Whitty American Conservatory Theater When potential Broadway backers recently…

The Normal Heart Directed by Ryan Murphy HBO Home Entertainment Reviewed by Robert Kingett Sometimes it takes a raindrop to ignite a tidal wave when fighting for equality….

Chicago Playwright Philip Dawkins Authors a Zodiac of AIDS by Sean Black Exiting a cab in front of The Victory Gardens Biograph Theater just south of…