Podcasts about pride films

On Episode 88 of Women InSession, Jaylan offers up her favorite Pride films and why these films are essential to watch for Pride Month! Visit https://insessionfilm.com for merch and more! Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe on your podcast app of choice! https://insessionfilm.com/subscribe

Jared Bellot (he/him) is a Chicago-based educator, facilitator and theatre artist whose interests lie at the intersection of storytelling, language and community. He works to curate spaces and facilitate conversations that allow for moments of rigorous reflection, genuine curiosity and deep laughter. As an artist and educator, Jared has worked at theaters across Chicago including Definition Theatre (where he serves as Associate Artistic Director), Timeline Theatre (where he is an Associate Artist), and Jackalope Theatre (where he is a company member), as well as Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, DePaul University, The Yard, Pride Films and Plays, Stage Left Theatre and Porchlight Music Theatre.

Pete Toepfer - VP of Housing and Health, AIDS Foundation Chicago Jay Espano - New Artistic Director, Pride Films and Plays

In dieser Folge ist zunächst mal die Wildemann mein Gast und wir sprechen über die brandneuen Vorkomnisse in der Kausa Brintey Spears, was ja wirklich alles zum Haare raufen ist. Danach spreche ich noch über den Entstehungsprozess des wunderbaren "Generations of Pride" Films, den ich mit About You gedreht habe.

This week, we're doing a topic episode led by a returning guest on the show. You may know him from our previous episodes. It's Ryan! Ryan Oliveira is a playwright, performer, songwriter, and theatrical jack-of-all-trades currently living in Chicago. His work has been developed with Teatro Vivo, Pride Films and Plays, Prop Thtr, and others. He'll be developing a "re-vamped original work" with The New Colony in Chicago later next year and is currently working on new songs and a new novel during a long-needed theatre break. Ryan returns to discuss a special topic in the songwriting process: What it means to write a song for theatre, for yourself, for anything else. Ryan shares his own personal history with songwriting and techniques and tricks he's learned that work for him and may work for you. Ryan's Songs "What Brother Should Be" "Oh, Mercury" To learn more about Ryan and his work: Website: www.ryanoliveira.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/ryanoceronte NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/8029/ryan-oliveira Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-222040529 GLISTENS: Sarah: The Cure "Just Like Heaven" / “Alchemy of Herbs” by Rosale De La Foret Sam: Joni Mitchell "Cactus Tree" / Worlds Healthiest Foods Veggie Advisor Ryan: Goo Goo Dolls "Iris" & Zac Brown Band "Colder Weather / Plane Crash Tests ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beckettsbabies/support

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The lights on Broadway are dimmed in the early weeks of the coronavisu pandemic: the great playwright and dear family friend Terrence McNally died at the age of 81 as result of complications from COVID-19. As you can imagine, we're deeply saddened by the news.Family are people who share love. I consider Terrence family, in so many ways he was my gay uncle.Back in high school mom and Terrence dated and stayed close friends throughout their lives.Besides writing or being part of hundreds of amazing shows, plays and films, Terrence was someone who made it much much easier for me to come out as gay at the young age of 18.Terrence's plays helped so many wonderful actors launch or reinvigorate their careers including Nathan Lane, Rita Moreno and Chita Rivera.The character of Patricia in "Corpus Christi" is based on my mom Patricia, and the character of Latino performance artist extraordinaire Ramon Fornos in "Love! Valour! Compassion!" is (very loosely) based on me, Fausto Fernós. I'm eternally grateful. Love wins. Please enjoy this encore presentation of our podcast with my mom Patricia Fernós on the life and work of her dear friend Terrence McNally. Feast of Fun Show #1259, originally recorded Sep 27, 2010.____________________The gay passion play Corpus Christi, by Tony Award Winning playwright Terrence McNally, is one of the most controversial tellings of the “Greatest Story Ever Told.”Taken in May of 1957, my mom Patricia Fernós (right) with her arm around Terrence McNally in Corpus Christi, Texas.The play combines the story of Jesus with Terrence McNally’s own high school experience growing up in the conservative town of Corpus Christi, Texas.What you may not know is that my mom Patricia Riddick-Fernós was close friends with Terrence in high school and even went on a dates with him. The character of Patricia Rudd in Corpus Christi is based on her.I recently had the pleasure of introducing the play here in Chicago as part of the Pride Films and Plays series of The Great Plays of Terrence McNallyJoin us as we talk to my mom Patricia over the phone about the play Corpus Christi, and her lifelong friendship with the Tony Award winning playwright Terrence McNally.Plus all the hot news:➤ Rev Eddie Long, the gay black pope of Atlanta feels he’s under attack and is going to fight the accusations that he coerced sex from young men. Although he denies it, he must have supplied it, because he isn’t touting his innocence either.➤ Today is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, bad news- HIV infection in the U.S. is on the rise with dudes who have sex with dudes.➤ Katy Perry fumbles on Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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Paul goes behind the curtain of the upcoming Chicago Mayoral race with candidate Lori Lightfoot. Ms. Lightfoot addresses violence and police accountability in light of the newly announced Police Consent Decree, plus rising taxes and fees in the city to balance the budget, and a chance to learn about her background and upbringing. All of […]

Paul goes behind the curtain this week with director David Schwimmer (“Ross” from Friends) and Playwrite Kevin Douglas on his new hilarious play “Plantation,” currently playing at Lookingglass Theatre. They discuss the collaborative process of bringing this new work to the stage. Then, Paul talks with Book/Lyric writer David Zellnik about his play “Yank! A […]

Gary and Frank welcome two of the great leaders of Chicago's Pride Films & Plays to Booth One. Nelson Rodriguez is Artistic Director of Pride Films and Plays. Filmmaker Dan Pal is running the Pride Film Fest, which happens on the second Tuesday of each month. Check out the line-up for February's festival here. Pride Films and Plays brings a 4-show season of excellent LGBTQ programming to the Chicago theatre community. Housed at the Pride Arts Center at 4139 N. Broadway, PFP also hosts the aforementioned Pride Film Fest and rents its two spaces to other theater companies. Dan Pal is an award-winning filmmaker and professor at DePaul and Moraine Valley Community College. Check out his website to see the fabulous Scotty & Josh trilogy and more. Here is Dan winning an award for his direction of Counting, which is the first film produced by Pride Films & Plays. It is on the festival circuit now and headed to the Santa Fe Film Festival in February, where it will open for Melanie Mayron's new movie. We got a chance to screen this beautiful and moving short film. We'll keep you posted when it becomes available to the public. Nelson recently starred in a feature film called En Algun Lugar, which we can't wait to see. He has performed in a one-man show depicting 7 gay immigrant characters called "Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Nervous Breakdown." Would love to see this and hoping for a remount. Nelson has been featured as one of "30 Under 30" in the Windy City Times. Looking forward to all he will continue to bring to our community. Pride Films and Plays was founded by David Zak, longtime artistic director of Bailiwick, who brought us so many memorable productions, including The Christmas Schooner, in which Roscoe, our founding co-host, created the role of Gus. Chita Rivera and Seth Rudetsky did what sounded like an amazing show at Steppenwolf. We had to miss because of a conflict, but sent our friends and loyal listeners with only one request: that they write a short review. Gary shares the a few observations made by Virginia Gerst, Nancy Needles, and Kay Ellwein. We appreciate the excellent reporting and wish we'd been there with you. BTW, we interviewed Chita in episode 32. Check it out. Frank Tourangeau, our new regular guest host, geeks out on I Love Lucy in a fascinating way. If you didn't already know how the DesiLu empire started, you'll hear it on this show. They also invented the rerun. Geniuses both. Kiss of Death: We close each episode with a tribute to a fascinating person who has recently passed away. Learn about Johnny Fox, sword swallower. Ick. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/obituaries/johnny-fox-sword-swallowing-showman-dies-at-64.html                      

Guest co-host Frank Tourangeau joins Gary in Booth One this week. Frank is a director, educator, speech coach, and all-around performing arts aficionado, whose knowledge of Chicago and New York theater is wide-ranging and insightful. I guess we should call him "Doctor" Tourangeau, as he holds a PhD in Speech and Performance Art from Southern Illinois University, and did his dissertation on the interactions of right brain/left brain as it relates to emotional cognition in performance. Wow. One of the smartest people we know! Frank once coached our producer in high school speech competitions and relates a few stories about her performance piece and its reception at competitions. More here. Frank is retired now from his professorship at the College of DuPage in Wheaton, IL and spends much of his time supporting theater and film in and around the city of Chicago. Gary does an Academy Awards recap by reviewing his picks along with those from Roscoe and Paul Stroili. Looks like Gary was the big winner with 6 out of 9 correct picks. Roscoe: 4. Paul: 3. Prize: $0. Sally Field fares marginally well in reviews of The Glass Menagerie, but the production gets disappointing notices for its deconstructionist quality and unusual staging. We highlight the New York Daily News review as a representative example. Frank and Gary romp through what's coming to the boards on Broadway and what's "in the works" for future seasons. Select upcoming openings: Come From Away, The Play That Goes Wrong, War Paint, The Little Foxes, Hello, Dolly! and A Doll's House Part 2(!). Scheduled for later - The Prince of Broadway; The Minutes by Tracy Letts; Bombshell, the Marilyn Monroe musical from Smash; The Cher Show; The Devil Wears Prada; Gypsy(again! this time starring Imelda Staunton); To Kill a Mockingbird (adapted by Aaron Sorkin); King Kong from Australia; and The Honeymooners starring Hank Azaria. Will all these come to fruition and make it on the Big White Way? Only time will tell. We discuss the brilliant new film from Jordan Peele, Get Out, a semi-horror thriller with more than a few twists and turns. Both Frank and Gary like this picture immensely and try not to give too much away while discussing various scenes and plot points. There are elements of science fiction and some suspension of disbelief is required as the harrowing story hurtles its way forward. We encourage everyone to go see it! After you've seen it, read this excellent analysis in The Atlantic. Get Out was produced by friend of the show, Jason Blum. Congratulations, Jason and Blumhouse! Pride Films and Plays, a new local producing organization whose mission is to change lives by creating diverse new work with LGBTQ+ characters or themes, has mounted a production of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert in a 99-seat theater with as many production elements as can be created in a small space. It features Chicago legend, Honey West! Read a great interview with her here. Sadly, this production will be closed by the time this episode of Booth One airs, but Frank describes the remarkable time he had at a recent viewing and what marvelous work PFP is doing as a young company.  Interested listeners should check out the Pride web site for upcoming theatrical and film presentations  of important new work. "Never get out of the boat" is one of Gary's favorite mantras, and this story about Great White Sharks amassing off the coast of Cape Cod reinforces that sage advice. The Boston Globe article enumerates the shark population in this area at 147. Of those predators, 89 are considered "new" sharks, meaning they have not been documented before, and that the population of these giant godless killing machines may be far more than previously estimated. Though the last fatal shark attack in Massachusetts was in 1936, Gary believes the odds are not in man's favor. Swim at your own risk would be a good sign for the beach above! How's that for "public education?"

Actress Delia Kropp took a ten year hiatus from the Chicago theatre scene. When I asked her if that was hard she replied, "it was necessary." Delia is a transgender woman and has only in the last few years returned to auditioning--now as her true gender. She spoke with me about her work as an actress, the challenges facing transgender actors in Chicago, and what she and others are doing to make our stages more inclusive. You can catch Delia's work when she directs the winner of the Pride Films and Play Trans Play Festival on June 11th and 12th. To learn more about her creative and activist work, you can visit her website.

On Episode 5 Of "Your Program Is Your Ticket" Chicago-based Pride Films and Plays Executive Director David Zak discusses the evolution of one of Chicago's top LGBTQ Theater Ensembles. He also discusses his take on what audiences are looking for in their theater experience. And I HEARTILY Recommend their Amazing Production of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical"!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

01:34 - Origin story of Pride Films and Plays. http://pridefilmsandplays.com 06:25 - "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert." http://pridefilmsandplays.com/priscilla-queen-desert/ 08:45 - "For the Love of Roller Derby." http://pridefilmsandplays.com/love-roller-derby-play-world-premiere/ 18:19 - "Jerry Springer: The Opera." http://www.theatreinchicago.com/jerry-springer-the-opera/1256/ 22:05 - How does David go about finding plays? 28:15 - Highlights of Bailiwick. 31:35 - David's experience teaching in Hammond. 38:27 - Pride Fest at Chandler in Vermont. http://www.pridecentervt.org/news/item/vermont-pride-theater-s-sixth-annual-summer-pride-festival Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "The Devil Is In The Beats" - The Chemical Brothers

The success of the 1994 Oscar Award winning film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which told the story of three drag queens making the trek across Australia’s outback, helped ignite a modern style of drag filled with campy, self-deprecating fun and trans inclusivity.The film was turned into a Tony award winning Broadway musical and now our local Pride Films and Plays is putting it on featuring Honey West who, as far as we know, is the first trans actor to play the role of the grand dame, Bernadette.Joining us today is the lovely Honey West, who has been a hit on the cabaret circuit since her debut in her 1990 one-woman show, A Taste of Honey.Listen as we chat with the legendary Honey West about her adventures in comedy, musical theater and the early days of LGBT radio.➤ A walk down LGBT Chicago theater: Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Diva Diaries and the Wizard of AIDS.➤ Her longtime friendship with Transparent actor Alexandra Billings.➤ What’s Oprah’s friendship like with the raunchy transgender actress Chili Pepper?

Host: Amy Matheny Amy is excited about the gorgeous weather in Chicago but knows it’s just a tease. She also wants to know when St. Patrick’s day became all about drinking? Was it always that way? Send a comment if you know the answer. Guest: Artistic Associate of Pride Films and Plays (PFP) Derek Von [...]

Episode 4 of 4 REEL MOVIE CLUB is themed around films that motivate patriotic American spirit feelings, including The Patriot, Invasion USA, Air Force One and Team America: World Police. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fanboysanonymous/support