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Take Greek drama, Shakespearean comedy, and Kabuki theater, stir in some punk rock, and you’ll get a genre audiences love.
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"An embarrassing kind of conformism" comes with full LGBT assimilation into the mainstream, says the actor and filmmaker. "Being queer is not enough," he says "Certainly it’s not interesting enough."
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Awkward fumblings, outrageous coincidences, and finding a place in the world as a gay man.
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Contending with discrimination and AIDS panic as part of the first generation of "out" gay people.
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The "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" creator ponders the "ongoing understanding and quest" of love.
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The creator and star of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" discusses what the project meant to him personally, and how he feels about returning to it 10 years later.
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The filmmaker hates to think himself as an "auteur," but prefers the relaxation and openness that comes with working independently.
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How to be a director actors love, and an actor that won’t annoy a director to death.
The relationship between art and society has been deconstructed for what seems like forever. But as the definition of art and performance has broadened over time, some members of society […]
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A conversation with the filmmaker, actor, and writer.
Achieving sustainability can be a tricky balance for businesses. Even if adopting sustainable practices makes clear sense for the long-term, Copenhagen Business School professor Bjørn Lomborg notes that businesses face […]
"What Bert Sugar doesn’t know about baseball, nobody knows," reads a quote from the great Yankees catcher Yogi Berra on the back of Sugar's new book about the Baseball Hall […]
In a press conference yesterday, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is planning to make it much simpler for users to figure out how much information they are making […]
Urban studies theorist Richard Florida came by the Big Think offices recently to talk about what he's coined "The Great Reset"—the effects of the economic crisis on our country, and […]
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic will still be with us in 40 years. But we will know a lot more about the virus than we do today—and therapy will be much more […]
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In the future, there will be more small slaughterhouses, more small creameries, and more regional food operations—and we'll be healthier as a result.
A pair of Canadian paleontologists say that anigmatic fossilized organism called Nectocaris pteryx (literally "swimming crab with wings") was the great-grandmammy of the modern-day squid, octopus, and cuttlefish: In the […]
Nobel Laureate Gary Becker and Judge Richard Posner consider whether a central bank like the Federal Reserve should remain independent of the government.
Do men have the right to choose? After being divorced and sued for child support, one man testifies that he and his ex-wife had agreed to get an abortion if she became pregnant.
A lifetime ban on donating blood for men who have slept with other men, created to protect recipients from HIV, is being challenged as outdated and unfair by two Canadian physicians.