#but them as pearl and nina slay

[gioseu]

yuqi and bibi’s halloween costumes? stars

[thesaintswraith]

rank everyone based on how attractive you find them

The real winners are my knives. They’re beautiful 💕

1) @unbrekker I know you just wanted me to admit this. So fine. I will. It’s not a big deal. He has a really nice face, I think most people would agree

2) @queenofthewaffles Slaying it girlfriend

3) @pearl-handles-my-beloved We both know we’re gorgeous

4) @makemeyourdarkling He does have nice hair

5) @likecallstolight A beautiful Sankt

6) @nikolai-lanstov-nazyalensky It’s impossible to deny that he’s charming

7) @ihatethewayyoutalk His chin is nice but he’s Nina’s

8) @iamablade We’re friends and that’s all it’ll ever be

9) @i-know-i-look-twelve Nope. He’s like a little brother

10) @immilothegoat I’m sorry you keep getting ranked last, if the question was who is most adorable you’d be first though

1 being the most - 10 being the least

[zamolodchikovunhhhh]

First Impressions: RPDR S11 Queens (SPOILERS)

We have our rumoured RPDR S11 cast---we’ve all heard the spoilers. We all already have our top 4 picked. I just wanted to give my first impressions of all the queens (like i did last season on my main). Spoiler: I was very fucking wrong. Like, hilariously off course. Get hype for more of that. 

This is solely from their Instagrams since they’re not technically “confirmed” or have a meet the queens video yet soooo here we go. Which means some of these queens might very well not be on the show. But it’s okay. Live in the moment.

A’keria Chanel Davenport: She’s gorgeous---she looks biologically related to Kennedy, not even joking. In and out of drag, she is just beautiful and radiant. I don’t know how she’ll do challenge-wise, but I have high hopes for her personality.

Ariel Versace: I don’t know! I’ve watched an Instagram live or two of hers and I find her quite adorable, but---is she fake? That’s the real question, kids. This bitch is gonna start some shit. IDK if I’m here for it or not. We’ll see.

Brooke Lynn Hytes: Canada, yes ma’am! I stan Kameron Michaels and they look almost exactly alike and they’re both in Nashville, so expect me to stan Miss Brooke too. I’m already mildly obsessed. Meant for more? Top 4. 

Honey Davenport: The mother of miss Monet X Change. The queen we all need. Honestly I just get so much personality and so much love from all of these queens this season. I want them all to win. I want Honey Davenport to shake some shit up. Honey Davenport is absolutely glowing.

Kahanna Montrese: Out of drag, Jesus fucking Christ. Maybe the hottest man I’ve ever seen. In drag, this woman looks like the rich bitch who burned down the PTA building for the other kids mistreating her child. I fucking love it and I want her to kick ass. 

Mercedes Iman Diamond: She looks way too cute and sweet to make it past episode 2. Like she’s just a cutie that everyone wants to love and hug and squeeze and she kind of busts under pressure. Poor baby, I want to hug her and give her all the money I have (which is like five bucks but still). 

Nina West: We stan a legend. One of the only queens this season I’d heard of before the rumors started circulating. I’ve always been a fan of her, and this season shouldn’t be any different. 

Plastique Tiara: I don’t get how she’s everyone’s favorite TBH. Sure, she’s Haus of Edwards, which qualifies her as a legend from the get go, but she’s another of those queens that looks like she gets by on looks alone. Then again, I said the same thing about Aquaria last season---oh well. 

Ra’jah O’Hara: This bitch knows how to paint!!! And not just her face, but like actually paint!!! Her artwork skills make me very curious to see how she does in challenges. (Oh, and she can lip sync.)

Scarlet Envy: She’s Pearl’s friend and you can tell. Looks for days. I don’t think she’ll hold up to make it to the finale though. She seems like an early out. You cannot deny she’s stunning though. 

Shuga Cain: Another queen I knew before the rumors!! She did Drag Babies with Bob the Drag Queen and Chi Chi and Peppermint, and---spoiler!---her drag baby won the show. Though she’s another queen just boiling over with personality and a perfect smile, I’m so scared she’s another early out. 

Silky Ganache: My winner. I need a big girl to win RuPaul’s Drag Race, and I’m 100% sure that Silky can do it. Avenge Latrice, (season 5) Roxxxy, and Ginger, baby, because you have what it takes to be America’s Next Drag Superstar. I want her to slay the house down and not apologize. 

Soju: I want her to be good!! I really do!! But I don’t have high hopes, sadly. I follow her on Insta and fall head over heels for all her looks, but I don’t have faith that she can turn it out. 

Vanessa Vanjie Mateo: Yeah, she’s an old thing. I loved Miss Vanjie, and I don’t think she should’ve been booted first last season, but I also don’t think she should be back? The Miss Vanjie fame is gonna get to her head and she’s gonna be a bitch, and guess what, I am not here for it. 

Yvie Oddly: fucking yes! That is all. Her drag is so weird, and no one’s ready for it. I’m not ready for it, but I want to be. Yvie.

TL;DR---I have high hopes for most of this cast. They’re all stunning. 

[katyazamolodisomethingorother]

hey guys, a new season of drag race has graced our screens (like, a week ago) and idk about you, but i’m feeling pretty sickening mawma YAAAAAAAAAAS GAGA WERK THE HOUSE DOWN BOOTS HENNY.

okay, so let’s start by ruviewing each contestant based on their entrance to the werk room.

peppermint: peppermint is the shows OG out and proud trans drag queen. she hails from NY and she is serving LEWKS. after her beautiful blue satin entrance, peppermint definitely left me with a sweet tooth.

next up, valentina, she is beauty, she is grace and she is slaying rupaul’s drag race. red is definitely her colour and the fact she has been doing drag for 10 months and can do THIS: sickens me, she’s such a gorgeous drag baby and puts every biological female’s beat to shame.

okay, i know each season tends to have it’s designated “big girl”, and all she ever talks about is her weight (looking at you, ginger minj) but this is one of the rare few times a big girl hasn’t made me roll my eyes. eureka is very witty, and also has enough good looks to make up for the times she mentions her weight

now it’s time for the oldest queen in drag herstory, the true face crack of the century, charlie hides. aka the one that lana del ray called an asshole that time. despite being an ancient relic, charlie is beautiful and also pulls off dressing like a 22 year old as opposed to a 52 year old. she has her own youtube channel, in which she showcases her comedic talent and also insane beauty, not to mention she was grown here in the UK, and i’m all for a UK drag queen snatching the crown

next up, the “courtney act” of the season (yawn), aka the fishy blonde – farrah moan. not only is this an ingenious pun (whether she realises this or not), but also she looks more like a woman than any woman i have ever met. and this is all i have to say:  on this:  am i wrong?

okay kittens, time for my personal favourite, the artsy, creative, sasha velour. she is dedicated to being “uniquely sasha”, and i’m in love with this bald headed dork. her lipsyncs are ART, and she is essentially herself, just art. her eyebrows will forever be better than yours, sorry ’bout it.

next to enter the werk room, alexis michelle, aka the one my best friend wants to fuck. she’s a gorgeous, curvy queen with the bluest contacts i’ve ever seen. she serves body on a platter and her hair colour is my literal dream. alexis is classy, versatile and just super cute all round. also, her painted tits are just goals.

shea couleé storms into the werk room next, wearing a sickening dress adorned with the face of fellow chicago queen, pearl liaison. shea’s drag style is so fierce, she will legitimately cut you. not to mention she has the best entrance line of the season, and one of the best in herstory.  she looks like she could fuck you up before breakfast.

it’s evidently clear that trinity taylor’s favourite colour is blue. it was her chosen colour for both her promo look, and her entrance look. everything about her is blue, her clothes, her hair, her earrings. all in slightly different, yet equally annoying shades of blue. she is a pageant queen, and a storyline mirroring that of coco and alyssa is in the works between trinity and eureka. trinity isn’t quite beautiful, but just like shea, will fight you, and i love it. also, she can’t tell the difference between a stigma and astigmatism.

kimora blac is the resident bitch of the season. despite her denial, there is no way that this bitch isn’t pumped with silicone. she’s going to be cunty, and no doubt we’re all going to gag over how cynical and mean she is. i do love a bitchy queen, and there’s no way kimora will disappoint, which will hopefully make up for the sub-par looks she’s been serving thus far

now, the comedy queen, hailing from milwaukee, winsconsin, jaymes mansfield. now, don’t get me wrong here, the voice is awful. but i honestly stan the shit out of jaymes, she’s funny, sweet and super adorable. her quirky style and humour are all part of this bright persona, but please let her lose the voice at some point

nina bo’nina banana fofana osama bin laden brown is one of the most creative queens to ever grace the werk room. her periscopes lull me to sleep, her voice is so soothing. she is talented and quirky, and also just the bomb.com.org.uk. and her entrance look was the best ever:

the penultimate queen is aja, from new york. she knows who i am and once told me that she loved me and that is all i have to say about this queen. that, and that i’m seeing this sickening queen in a couple of months and i’d like to join the haus of aja, pls n thank u xo

finally, we have ronnie from new york. she is brooklyn’s premiere lady gaga impersonator. i don’t know what else to say about her  i mean, she’s so good at it, right? look at her  you’d almost think she was lady gaga……………….. AND THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS

in possibly the best the twist in the history of rupaul’s drag race, lady gaga had everyone, especially the queens shook, these were their reactions:

and honestly i cannot blame them, my edges were officially SNATCHED.

thanks for reading this ruview of drag race, hope you enjoyed it!

lauren x

hey guys, pls check out my blog post (it's about ep 1 of drag race!!!!!!!!!) hey guys, a new season of drag race has graced our screens (like, a week ago) and idk about you, but i'm feeling pretty sickening mawma 

[newyorktheater]

Diahann Carroll in House of Flowers at the age of 19

Diahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, “Julia” in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too. Born in the Bronx, she made her Broadway debut way back in 1954, at the age of 19, in Truman Capote and Harold Arlen’s “House of Flowers,” the only debutante in an illustrious company led by Pearl Bailey and Alvin Ailey. The famous Harlem photographer Carl Van Vechten captured her here in color.

Carroll was the first black woman to win the Tony Award for Best Actress for a musical, for “No Strings” in 1962.She returned to Broadway in 1982 to portray Doctor Martha Livingstone in “Agnes of God”

  Diahann Carroll in No Strings with Richard Kiley

Diahann Carroll in Agnes of God with Geraldine Page

Her experiences on Broadway were in sharp contrast to her experience on television. As a black female” surrounded by white supremacists and chauvinists, she once said, “I had to learn how to tap dance around the situation”

Martin Scorsese’s  “The Irishman”, featuring an all-star cast including DeNiro and Pacino and Cannavale, will be presented at Broadway’s beautiful Belasco Theater from November 1 to December 1. It is not a play, but a film — the first movie screening in the theater’s 112-year-old history.  The film, about a mob hitman recalling his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa, will then be shown on Netflix. The director had hoped to put the film in movie houses, but major movie chains balked at playing host to a Netflix film.

Though Netflix will be installing equipment to allow for state of the art screening,  it will maintain the normal schedule for productions at the Belasco  — eight screenings a week, including Mondays dark and matinees on the weekend.

The Week in New York Theater Reviews and Previews

Preview: Linda Vista on Broadway Ian Barford realizes that some audience members may view the 50-year-old divorcé he portrays in Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista as “despicable, a misanthrope, a narcissist and probably a nihilist.” He feels that way about him too. But the actor also sees his character, Dick Wheeler, as “incredibly articulate, and hilarious,” even “noble.” “He has so many dimensions and contradictions: He’s lovable and he’s hateable,” Barford says. “I’m scared many people will love to hate him — and I’m sure that many people will hate to love him.”

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Conservatives don’t all think alike; some of them hate Trump; some don’t see Liberals as evil (some do.) Some are deeply weird.

It is a sure sign of the political divisiveness in America that these observations may well seem like revelations to some theatergoers attending  Will Arbury’s new play at Playwrights Horizons. “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” allows us to eavesdrop on what feel like astute and authentic conversations at a gathering of  former classmates at a conservative Catholic college in Wyoming.   Terrifically acted and intellectually stimulating,  “Heroes” is also eerie, at times confusing, too long and too dark. And I mean dark literally; it takes place during nighttime in the dimly lit backyard of Justin’s house.

  Chalk

“Chalk,” a 40-minute comedy in which silent comic Alex Curtis creates an entire world for the audience using little more than a piece of chalk, is exactly the sort of show I always hope for at the Fringe Festival — inventive, entertaining, and short.

Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec

“Moulin Rouge” on Broadway has several things in common with Bated Breath Theater Company’s low-budget show about the same people, place and period, especially in my reaction to them both. As with “Moulin Rouge,” I found “Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec” thrilling from the moment I entered the West Houston bar where it takes place…until a few minutes after it began. That’s because the environment on the second floor lounge of the Madame X bar is spot-on in look and feel….a show about the life and times of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec that is at best inventive, at worst amateurish, and overall a mishmash.

The Week in New York Theater News

Ed Harris

Nina Grollman

Nick Robinson

Russell Harvard

Kyle Scatliffe

Taylor Trensch

M Emmet Walsh

Year 2 of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” which begins Nov 5, features some intriguing replacement casting:

Ed Harris as Atticus Finch, Nick Robinson as Jem Finch, Eliza Scanlen as Mayella Ewell, Kyle Scatliffe as Tom Robinson, LisaGay Hamilton as Calpurnia, Nina Grollman as Scout Finch, Taylor Trensch as Dill Harris, Manoel Felciano as Horace Gilmer, Russell Harvard as Link Deas and Boo Radley, M. Emmet Walsh as Judge Taylor

The 2019 New York International Fringe Festival: What happened?!

The short answer is: They ran out of money.

Lauren Gunderson

The Half-Life of Marie Curie, starring Kate Mulgrew of Orange Is the New Black, will open at Minetta Lane Theater November 19, produced by Audible. It is written by Lauren Gunderson, who is yet again this year the most produced playwright in America – but has never been produced on Broadway.

Is America’s Favorite Playwright Too Much for New York?

“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” the show will now be known as “MJ.” It’s currently in a multi-week development phase in New York City and is scheduled to hit Broadway in the summer of 2020.

Seventy-nine artist have been granted MacDowell Fellowships, which enable them to attend fall residencies. These include composer Jeanine Tesori and theater artists: Sarah DeLappe, Lisa Dring, David Mallamud, Stevie Nemazee, Terry O’Reilly, LaDarrion Williams, Gary Winter, and Zack Zadek.

What is immersive theater? The six elements that define it at its best

Foundry Theatre to Close After 25 Years

Uta Hagen centennial

The history of modern celebrity

Study shows viewers want more representation for those with disabilities

Spielberg: “We filmed West Side Story all over New York, from Flatbush to Fort Tryon Park” — and finished at Steiner_Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. “The city lent us its beauty and its energy….” Movie’s coming out Dec 18,2020.

Martin Scorsese’s film “The Irishman” will be screened at the Belasco Theater on Broadway from Nov. 1 through Dec. 1

Elsiefest

    Rip Taylor, 88, mostly known as a TV game show panelist. But he also starred in a Broadway show in 1981, Sugar Babies. also wrote and performed an autobiographical one-man play called “It Ain’t All Confetti.”

#Stageworthy News of the Week: Diahann Carroll (1935-2019) Broadway Groundbreaker. DeNiro, Pacino, Cannavale in Broadway’s Belasco….for Netflix. Diahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, "Julia" in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too. 

[justcallmekatya]

35 Drag Race questions Easy
1) Who’s your favorite queen? - has to be katya, she'll always be my favourite although i love a lot of them 
2) What’s you’re favorite season? - i really enjoyed seasons 4 and 6, i think 4 was the best in terms of drama etc but i absolutely loved the s6 queens like adore and bianca so i find them hard to choose between, tbh i love them all so much 
3) Favourite challenge? - i really like the ball challenges like glitter ball/book ball etc because the 3 different looks are always so fun but also snatch game ofc 
4) Favorite mini-challenge? - the puppets ones are always so good and the reading obvs and the one with lil pound cake #iconic 
5) Least favorite queen? - could honestly pick more than 1 tbh but has to be mimi imfurst lmao 
6) Favorite entrance phrase? - 'is this America's next top model? oh... sorry' (courtney act) 
7) Favorite entrance look? - honestly loved nina bo'nina's mouse look so much, gia gunn's entrance look was also iconic af and rlly liked laganja's tbh 
8) Favorite pair/group during drag race - atm i'm team sashae af (sasha & Shea) bc let's be honest who isn't, also love naomi and kim and katya and trixie tho they weren't much of a pair during s7 9) Favorite pair/group after drag race? - trixya 50000% (also love raja and raven) 
10) Favorite queen who hasn’t been on drag race? - quite like aquaria but idk i honestly don't really follow non-drag race queens Medium
11) Which drag daughter from the transformation episode do you think should of stayed in drag? - ngl i don't remember them i'll come back to this Q * 
12) Who’s the most controversial queen? - would have to be phi phi probs or jasmine masters lmao 
13) What is your least favorite outfit ever? - serena cha cha's iconic mess 
14) Who would you like to see on season 10? - aquaria again idk??? 
15) Who would you like to see on All Stars 3? - omw everyone like trixie, naomi and Kim, laila, adore, pearl, fame, milk, laganja, there's sm others to be honest but i would be naming ppl forever 
16) Who should’ve been on All Stars 2? - i feel like this is a similar question but definitely trixie and pearl also like courtney/willam cos i didn't mention them in the last q and i'd love to see them on as3 OH and dela 
17) Which queen should have stayed longer? - katya bc she should have won???? and the princess idk i just think she had more to offer tbh idk can't think of others off the top of my head 
18) Which queen shouldn’t have stayed as long? - phi phi, dida ritz, derrick barry idk 
19) Favorite untucked episode? - currently linda evangelista bc it has recently become iconic but shangela's sugar daddy speech/derrick's gem speech are both highlights tbh and also love the last untucked of s8 because it is literally just rupaul's best friend race and i live for it 
20) What do you wish you’d seem more of in season 4/5/6/7 - i honestly think 4 had some of the best challenges ever, out of all those 4 seasons the only one i didn't love quite as much was 7 because i don't think the range of queens was diverse enough or something idk Hard
1) Which queen has changed you the most as a person? - probably adore luv her 
2) Which queen would you cry if you met? - KATYA 
3) If you had to think up a mini/main challenge, what would you want the queens to do? - omg such a good question !! i'd love if they picked names at random kinda like they do for the puppets and then have to recreate their makeup but like on themselves (mini challenge) 
4) If 1 queen were to guest judge, who would you chose? - i think bianca would be hilarious or katya ofc 
5) Who is the most underrated queen and why? - i think april carrion is rlly underrated cos like no one knows who she is but she's ac fishy and fierce af 
6) Which queen is overrated and why? - idk why i can't really think of overrated queens off the top of my head ?? ginger maybe i'm just really not a fan idk 
7) Favorite guest judge? - GAGA because she gave sm constructive critique to all the queens and was genuinely a gem loveeee 
8) Which queen’s backstory can you relate to the most? idkkk like i don't really wanna say i relate to any of them cos i don't know how it feels to go through what they go through all i can say is that all their stories inspire me 
9) What is Ru’s worst EVER decision? - firstly tyra as the winner of s2 when it should have been raven and also not letting katya win??? 
10) Which queen did you dislike in the show, and now is a big fan of? - i actually really like roxxxy now and wasn't that keen on fame & violet in s7 but i now love them BONUS QUESTIONS
1) Which queen’s would you want to see lipsync against each other? in s9 i really wanna see shae lipsync not bc i want her in the bottom ofc but cos i think she'd slay it so maybe shae and then against Nina oooh 
2) Which lipsync disappointed you the most? charlie hides (get off my lawn)
3) Choose a queen’s outfit to steal. - violet chachki's s8 finale look although i could never actually wear it LOL 
4) Choose a queen’s hair to steal. - rlly like naomi's final hair 
5) Choose a queen’s makeup skills to steal. - nina bc she can do sm with her face it's so impressive