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Glitter and be Shanghai gay!

Archived in the category: Michael Phillis, Thrillpeddlers, local theater, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 08 Feb 10 - 1 Comment

Above: Kara Emry and William McMichael get Shanghaied in Pearls Over Shanghai.
Below: Eric Wertz and Steven Satyricon dream of “un bel di.”Photos by David Wilson

Mash up Beach Blanket Babylon with Miss Saigon, throw in every bad Oriental exotica movie ever made, season with Ziggy Stardust and The Rocky Horror Show then sprinkle liberally with Cockettes. [...]

Coward’s `Better Half’

Archived in the category: Noel Coward, Thrillpeddlers, local theater, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 20 Mar 08 - 0 Comments

Now this, dear boy, is exciting.
A heretofore “lost” Noel Coward play is having its U.S premiere courtesy of San Francisco’s Thrillpeddlers, the group that specializes in Grand Guignol theater (bloody fun theater — think Sweeney Todd) at their theater space known as the Hypnodrome.
The one-act is called The Better Half, and according to a press [...]