Taylor Mac: Last News

the 2022 Tony Awards were announced, and as always, the roundup includes many predicted possible winners, a few snubs, and some surprises.Most people only look at a simple roster of the shows and actors and move on, but for those who want to dig in and do the research, there are some interesting tidbits to be uncovered, hidden within the nominations.Here are five tidbits and facts you may have missed in the roundup of nominees for the 2022 Tony Awards.Already one of the most successful people in the television industry, RuPaul Charles has now started what could be his takeover of the theater world as well.The Drag Race host earned his first Tony nomination as a credited producer on the musical A Strange Loop, which ended up as the most-nominated show of the season.RuPaul is already the winningest Black talent in Emmy history, with 11 trophies (out of 16 nods), and he surely has more coming his way.L Morgan Lee made history when her name was called out as one of the six potential winners in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical field, as she’s up for her work in A Strange Loop.Lee became the first openly trans performer to be nominated in an acting category, and it appears she is just the second trans or non-binary talent to be up for any Tony. In 2019, Taylor Mac earned a chance to win for writing the play Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus.After the nominations were unveiled, Lee took to Twitter to share a very short and powerful message: “I can’t stop crying.”Alongside RuPaul, singer and actor Jennifer Hudson is also nominated for Best Musical for her part in producing A Strange Loop.

EXCLUSIVE: The musical adaptation of Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, John Berendt’s bestselling nonfiction tale of murder and moss-covered secrets in Savannah, Georgia, will debut on Broadway in 2025 following an extended premiere run in Chicago, producers announced today.

The first winners of the 76th Emmy Awards were revealed today as the Television Academy unveiled its honorees in the juried categories spanning animation, costume, innovation in emerging media programming and motion design.

EXCLUSIVE: A two-day, invitation only reading of the in-development musical adaptation of John Berendt’s 1994 non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will feature recent Tony winner J. Harrison Ghee (Some Like It Hot) as Lady Chablis, the real-life transgender pioneer depicted in Berendt’s book.

Performer Miss Benny had been acting for a few years, finding it difficult to find roles that felt authentic, when fate intervened. One day while assisting on a photo shoot, she received a call about a comedy about a makeup artist YouTuber and knew that was the best option of anything she’d seen. After two weeks of auditions, Miss Benny landed the role of Marco in the new Netflix series, “Glamorous.”

Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival concluded its 47th iteration on Saturday, June 24, with a screening of Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, directed by Oscar-winning duo Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet). The documentary feature about the titular performer’s singular spectacle was preceded by the Festival’s annual Award Ceremony, which reaffirmed the dynamic future of queer cinema.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Laurence Fishburne will present a workshop of his new solo stage show Like They Do In The Movies this July as part of the New York Stage and Film Summer Season at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

EXCLUSIVE: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, John Berendt’s 1994 bestselling book and Pulitzer Prize finalist is being developed into a new musical by playwright Taylor Mac, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, choreography by Tanya Birl and Sarah O’Gleby and direction by Rob Ashford.

The 87-year-old Broadway singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern remained in a coma Monday after a random attack outside her apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood left her with serious brain trauma.