Tonys 2025: The Broadway Battle For Best Actress In A Musical Begins
2025 has become one of the most fabulously fierce and competitive years for lead female awards contenders. First we had...
Frank J. Avella is a proud staff writer for The Contending and an Edge Media Network contributor. He serves as the GALECA Industry Liaison (Home of the Dorian Awards) and is a Member of the New York Film Critics Online. As screenwriter/director, his award-winning short film, FIG JAM, has shown in Festivals worldwide and won numerous awards. Recently produced stage plays include LURED & VATICAN FALLS, both O'Neill semifinalists. His latest play FROCI, is about the queer Italian-American experience. Frank is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
2025 has become one of the most fabulously fierce and competitive years for lead female awards contenders. First we had...
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In the initial roster release for the OUTshine Film Festival, two LGBTQ-themed films were tagged “Not Yet Confirmed:” No Dogs...
The internationally celebrated OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival Spring Edition is upon us! Running April 17-May 4, 2025, OUTshine is often...
Broadway Diva Jennifer Simard has been killing it on Broadway for almost two decades. Note: I use the word “diva”...
Certain misguided critics (and that one in particular) are gushing over a monumental mess of a musical, loosely based on...
Your feelings about the new Sondheim revue, Old Friends, will probably depend on your familiarity with the composer-lyricist’s work as...
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I haven’t been emotionally slayed at the theater in quite a while. And I can shamefully state that Ghosts is...
One of the many great joys in watching Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ sometimes searing, always riveting new Broadway play, Purpose, is the...