Thesis on Joan is a podcast dedicated to amplifying voices from the LGBTQ+ community in the New York performing arts scene and examining the industry from a queer perspective! Join fanqueers and theatre professionals Harrow (they/them) and Meghan (she/her) as they sit down with groundbreaking theatre folx, from Brooklyn cabaret performers to people backstage and on Broadway. For many queers, theatre has been an escape, this podcast looks to have open conversations on where we’ve come from and where we’re headed as a community, while queering the canon along the way. Part of the Broadway Podcast Network.
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episode 5: Meghan & Harrow Return to the Shubert
Hosts Harrow and Meghan discuss Some Like It Hot and White Girl in Danger. Hear the response from Meghan on the representation(s) of her namesake (but not her spelling) and thoughts on how queerness, gender, race, and identity are represented in these two very different productions. It’s also time for Pride and there are many queer festivals, shows, and actions to take in June to support and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community!
Show Discussions:
- Some Like It Hot
- Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw
- Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny?
- Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman Have Read Your Criticisms About Broadway's Some Like It Hot
- White Girl in Danger
- By Michael R. Jackson, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly
- Teeth at Playwrights Horizons, February 2024
- Book and music by Anna K. Jacobs, book and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly, and directed by Sarah Benson
Upcoming Shows:
- FRIGID New York presents the 2023 Queerly Festival
- UNDER St. Marks & The Kraine Theater, June 15-July 3rd
- New Ambassadors Theatre Company’s Blurring Boundaries 2023
- Hudson Guild Theatre, June 14-18th
- The Tank annual PrideFest
- The Tank, June 16-25th
- Foxes by Dexter Flanders, directed by James Hillier
- 59E59’s Theater A, June 1 - July 2nd
Action of the Ep:
- Black & Pink - A nationwide PenPal program to match incarcerated LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS with PenPals who correspond, build relationships, and participate in harm reduction and affirmation.
Queer Culture Recs:
- Lempicka
- Woman Is
- Stay
- Girl in a Green Dress, Tamara de Lempicka
- Dyke Beer
Episode Credits:
- Edited by Harrow Sansom
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