Tim Teeman

New York

Senior Editor and Writer at The Daily Beast

Senior Editor and Writer, @TheDailyBeast. Author: In Bed With Gore Vidal: https://t.co/nBvbuzJYaP

Articles

What If Prince George Was Gay and Into Kinky S&M Sex?

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

A member of staff at New York theater Playwrights Horizons asked what play a friend and I had come to see. “Prince F****t,” I said, making the “f****t” sound as breezy and unremarkable as possible.
‘Hacks’ Star Jean Smart Takes Her Act to the Broadway Stage

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tim Teeman

Daily Beast CollageIf Call Me Izzy had a signature color, it would be the entire spectrum of blue. This becomes evident in the opening scene of Jamie Wax’s play—a 90-minute, one-woman showcase for Hacks star Jean Smart—about an abused woman living in a Louisiana trailer park. In a shaggy blonde wig, and with a subdued, beaten-down body language, Smart’s character with her soft Southern drawl is a million miles from her Hacks persona of the sardonic and snazzily dressed and coiffed Deborah Vance.
‘Hacks’ Star Jean Smart Takes Her Act to the Broadway Stage

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Tim Teeman

9 hours agoThe South Carolina senator has been the subject of rumors for years. “The Daily Show” aimed a zinger at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Wednesday in a segment about shrinking corporate support for Pride month. (Watch the video below.) After a news clip indicated that some companies still contribute to …
John Krasinski Gets Red-Pilled by the Men’s Rights Movement

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

The tension within Penelope Skinner’s play Angry Alan (Studio Seaview, booking to Aug. 3) is down to the well-known, puppyish, regular-guy charm of John Krasinski, and the dark forces that curdle that charm into something rancid and dark. Like the Jean Smart-starring Call Me Izzy at Studio 54, which opens Thursday night, this is a 90-ish minute show dependent on its distinctive banner name to sell tickets.
Nicole Scherzinger Wins the Tonys Awards’ Best Actress Showdown

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

As Oprah Winfrey wittily deadpanned before announcing its winner, the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical category had “sparked conversations among theater fans.”Well, ultimately there could be only one winning Broadway diva. And so it was in the much-debated duel at the 78th Tony Awards that Nicole Scherzinger (Sunset Blvd.) prevailed over Audra McDonald (Gypsy)—with Sunset also beating Gypsy for Best Revival of a Musical.
Nicole Scherzinger Wins the Tony Awards’ Best Actress Showdown

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tim Teeman

As Oprah Winfrey wittily deadpanned before announcing the winner, the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical category had “sparked conversations among theater fans.”Well, ultimately there could be only one winning Broadway diva. And so it was in the much-debated duel at the 78th Tony Awards that Nicole Scherzinger (Sunset Blvd.) prevailed over Audra McDonald (Gypsy)—with Sunset also beating Gypsy for Best Revival of a Musical.
the colorful, defiant history of the American gay restaurant

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Tim Teeman

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Diner dates and bathhouse chili: the colorful, defiant history of the American gay restaurant

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tim Teeman

Erik Piepenburg’s voice breaks when he speaks of the Napalese Lounge and Grille in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The restaurant known as “Naps” to locals is where a group of transgender people regularly come together to chat over beer-battered shrimp, deep-fried green beans and cheese curds. Many travel long distances to do so. “An amazing woman called Martha oversees it,” says Piepenburg, 54.
Scared advertisers, flag bans and Trump: the US is in for a troubled Pride 2025

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tim Teeman

When Utah brought in its pride flag ban, organizer Chad Call was hardly surprised. On 7 May the US state became the first to explicitly prohibit the flying of LGBTQ+ flags at government buildings and schools; anyone who does so could face fines of $500 a day. “We live in an incredibly conservative state,” says Call, executive director of Utah Pride. “It’s disappointing that this is such an important issue to our lawmakers.
Amber Iman Is Giving the Best Acting Performance in New York Right Now

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Tim Teeman

For a moment, cease the Tony Awards chatter. The best songs and singing and most dazzling choreography in New York City right now is happening off-Broadway. Audra or Nicole? For a few hours at least, you won’t care. There is a new, stage-conquering diva to lose your minds over.