We kick off Pride month (and season 3!) in Brecksville & Broadview Heights, Ohio. The pair of conservative small towns hosted their first LGBTQIA pride in 2023 to much success, then local residents tried to shut it down. The fight for 2024 on Stereotypes.

During Dear San Francisco at Club Fugazi in North Beach, one could be forgiven for feeling like you’d jumped into a Cirque Du Soleil production, and that’s fine as the founders of this San Francisco based cirque troupe worked there for a time. The intimate and immersive resident production was created by Bay Area natives Gypsy Snider and Shana Carroll, co-founders of The 7 Fingers, their independent troupe which began in Montreal.

San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre Center is presenting a musical by the late Broadway composer, lyricist and playwright Jonathan Larson. If you have heard of the runaway smash hit Rent then you are familiar with Larson’s style. tick, tick… BOOM! predates Rent by a few years, but the tight harmonies and quick key changes that would define Larson’s style are evident.

The Glass Menagerie is likely the reason you’ve heard the name Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie put Tennessee Williams on the map and led the way to American classics like A Streetcar Named Desire, Night of the Iguana, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

A performance artist recounts the greatest moments of her career, from work that got her started, to the performance that almost killed her in the exciting and emotional two-act two-hander Extreme Acts by prolific playwright Lynne Kaufman, directed by Molly Noble.

When you watch a film in theaters or play a video game at home you simply cannot recreate the power, emotion and feel of a live orchestra. As a result most music gets remembered by a few bars of catchy melody despite being, in some cases, hours long and in most cases, very detailed.

In the tradition ’80s sitcoms but with elements of telenovela melodrama, Bitch Slap! is a hilarious, over-the-top spoof comedy written and directed by San Francisco’s inaugural drag laureate D’Arcy Drollinger. Bitch Slap first opened in 2017 and is back on stage through May 18 at Oasis.

A Strange Loop, a Pulitzer Prize winning, loosely autobiographical, one-act musical drama by Michael R. Jackson explores a myriad of themes related to identity, queerness, self-esteem, and religion. It first debuted off Broadway in 2019, won a Tony when it hit Broadway in 2022, and is now the West Coast premiere arrives at A.C.T’s Toni Rembe Theatre until May 12, 2024.

Forever Plaid, an Off-Broadway musical revue written in the late eighties by Stuart Ross, takes place in the in-between, or whatever exists between this life and the next. The Plaids, a prototypical guy group in appearance, harmonies and temperament, find themselves dead right at the top of the show. But, they have been given an opportunity to perform all of their favorite songs one last time. We, the audience 60 years in the future, are along for the ride which celebrates the legacy of the spotless, often White “guy groups” of the 1950s.

San Francisco Ballet kicked off their 2024 season, the first curated by Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, with Next@90 Curtain Call, a look back at performances from last year’s Next@90 Festival.

Easter in the Park with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence began on Easter Sunday 1979 and as annual San Francisco traditions go, this one is more relevant today than almost anytime in its 45 year history.

Drag as an art form dates back centuries, but as shows like MTV’s RuPaul’s Drag Race have grown a worldwide following, drag has become more visible than ever.

When you step inside the Mannequin Madness warehouse in Oakland, you’re greeted by a mind-boggling assortment of mannequins for rent or sale.

“They’re not always just mannequins with a head,” smiled founder Judi Henderson. “There’s legs, there’s feet, there’s butts. One of these boxes here is just full of heads.”

Coming out again, 25 years later, this time as polyamorous has been the learning experience of a lifetime. My view of love has been forever changed, and my life is better for it.

Klaus grew up in Illinois and was drawn to music since grade school. After arriving in San Francisco, there was a period when Klaus was a staple on the city's cabaret scene, often performing music from the 1940s, '50s and '60s with bands of varying sizes.

"Open To It" is a web series led by executive producer, writer and actor Frank Arthur Smith. In season one we meet Cam and Greg, a gay couple who make the decision to start hooking up with other guys. What follows is an episodic master class in comedic representation turned all the way up.

Lady Bunny first came to prominence in the 1980s when her roommate RuPaul first put Lady Bunny in drag. That was in Atlanta where the pair first met. RuPaul and Bunny moved to New York City together and the rest, as they say, is drag herstory.

My holiday gift to you, four stories about drag holiday traditions:

Elizabeth Carter is a Black, queer, mother and director raising her son among the San Francisco Bay Area's LGBTQ community. Attending drag events has always been normal for their family and when politicians began trying to pass drag bans around the country, she responded by staging a show about drag queens set in Florida. Responding to hate with authenticity, and humor this time on Stereotypes.

Civic Center gets a bad rap, and since I’m about to say lots of nice things about it, let’s just get the negativity out of the way: yes, I’ve seen unhoused people, drug sales, and dirty streets in my neighborhood, in fact right at my doorstep.