Steve Gottfried

Dec 11, 2024 | metrosource.com | Steve Gottfried

Famed queer director Luca Guadagnino (best known for Call Me by Your Name) has reteamed with scribe Justin Kuritzkes to helm the adaptation of a loosely autobiographical novella “Queer” by William S. Burroughs about a May-December love affair between two men, set in the 1950s. Their previous collaboration (Challengers) which starred Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor in a provocative sweaty love triangle set in the world of professional tennis, never quite delivered its promise.

Dec 11, 2024 | metrosource.com | Steve Gottfried

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is perhaps best known for his portrayal as the lovable Mitchell Pritchett in the groundbreaking sitcom Modern Family which featured a same-sex couple in a committed relationship. While it took five seasons for them to officially tie the knot, their presence helped normalize and humanize what otherwise had been relegated to a hot-button political hot potato.

Nov 2, 2024 | metrosource.com | Steve Gottfried

As someone with theatrical aspirations of my own once upon a time, I’ve always been fascinated by what it takes to make it to Broadway, the Holy Grail for most actors. Exceptional talent of course is a baseline requirement as well as a dogged determination and belief in oneself that’s undeterred by the odds.

Jun 17, 2024 | culturaldaily.com | Steve Gottfried

Five years after its triumphant 2019 Broadway run, A Strange Loop arrives loud and proud at the Ahmanson Theatre, aptly situated near the beginning of Pride month playing now through June 30th. Written and conceived by Michael R. Johnson, A Strange Loop is an outrageous and audacious thrill ride of black queer identity and empowerment.

Apr 11, 2024 | culturaldaily.com | Steve Gottfried

What if Hamlet was a plus-size, queer Black man? That is the question posed by playwright James Ijames in his Pulitzer Prize winning play Fat Ham which opened on Broadway in April 2023 and is playing now through May 5th at the charming and intimate Geffen Playhouse. Fat Ham offers a boldly imaginative reframing of Shakespeare’s play about the Melancholy Dane who is visited by his father’s ghost to avenge his murder at the hands of Hamlet’s uncle who has remarried his brother’s wife.