All posts by Doug Rule
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Express Yourself
The three characters in Gustavo Ott's Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians, now at GALA Theatre, are not played by drag queens, though it's easy to imagine...
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Preacher of Love
It must be nice to be Tom Goss's husband. After all, the good-looking Goss, with his sweet tenor voice, is hopelessly devoted to the man....
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Knock on Wood
You might call Michelle Peterson-Albandoz a dumpster diver for art. The Chicago resident trolls for wood in ''dumpsters and back alleys and stuff'' to create...
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Mighty Kylie
Kylie Minogue is coming back for more. The international superstar only properly toured North America for the first time two years ago, more than two...
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Gurls Gone Wild
Ashliana Rowe's mother helped her daughter choose a stage name -- to use in performing burlesque. ''I actually emailed my mom,'' says Rowe. '''Mom, I...
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Taking Liberty
It's a small world, after all. No, there are no animated dolls serenading you about global peace and world unity in a trip around Ford's...
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Pop Seduction
Britney Spears just wants to fuck. Is that so wrong? All throughout Femme Fatale, her new seventh studio set, Spears talks about getting it on...
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Queer Ear
Susan Werner trained to be an opera singer, but admits she ''was a little too much of an introvert.'' She wasn't loud enough. Instead, Werner...
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Mobile Drinks
Want a happy hour drink at a non-happy hour time of day? There's an app for that. ''BarTab is an app that allows users to...
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Lights Up
The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...
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Short Rounds
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's brief relationship with the late Jeffrey Grossi in the mid-'90s provided, if not a lifetime, then at least a few years'...
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Cherry Blast!
''I'm really glad Cherry stepped out and got Oscar G, somebody a little bit different as far as the gay circuit goes,'' says Alyson Calagna....
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Scoring Sondheim
Anthony De Mare prefers to know the score before seeing a show. '' I used to just go to the record store and...
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Feeling Alright
Jennifer Hudson has done it. She's managed to persevere through some of the most tragic personal experiences a human can face -- chiefly, the murder...
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Cutting Crew
Last year Cut Copy turned down Lady Gaga. ''We were literally in the middle of making our record and we couldn't commit to a year...
