One of my earliest memories of seeing a musical is seeing Hair at the Media Theatre. I was thirteen years old…my mom lied about my age to get me a ticket. It hadn’t been a good day. I was struggling with mental health issues, and I learned I had a C in English. But I went in and everything felt better. The Media Theatre is a lovely theatre, and they went all out. There were hippies handing out leaflets and a general feel of something amazing brewing. I was so excited t

As seasons are starting to wind down, I still need things to write about! So from this thought comes my newest segment, Musical Notes. I know I’ve talked before about being a huge musical theatre nerd, so this is where I get to talk about musicals! I’m super excited about this, because musicals are one of my favorite things to talk about. I’m going to start off with a long overdue post…RENT. RENT has been a part of my life for a very long time. I think I started listenin

(Photo credit to Johanna Austin) Last week, I wrote a piece on The America Play after seeing it at The Wilma. And I absolutely hated what I wrote. This was extremely weird for me, because I’ve never hated a post as much as I hated what I wrote about this play. I don’t think I hit all of the important parts. I don’t think I highlighted the actors’ performances. I don’t think I properly articulated what I was trying to say about this absolutely mind blowing play. I took t

Photo credit to Mark Garvin. As a queer, trans non-binary person, I’m always on the lookout for representation. And while there’s a lot more of it now than throughout most of my twenty years being an out queer person, there’s still not a ton of it. Especially when it comes to the trans part. There’s a lot more awareness now, and it continues to rise, but we still don’t have a very loud voice. Draw the Circle presented some of the best trans awareness I’ve seen in a very

I definitely can’t (and won’t) deny this, but I’m an extremely emotional person. It comes from a lot of things. My mental illnesses. ...