Fridae

Fridae talks to the director of the upcoming lesbian film, My Summer of Love, a mesmerising and dangerous journey into the world of teenage passion. The Oct 16 charity screening will benefit the Association of Women for Action and Research and the Cat Welfare Society.

From the creator of Rent, Jonathan Larson, Tick, Tick...BOOM! is a moving autobiographical musical about living the edgy life of a New York artist. Featuring a cast drawn from the original West End and Off-Broadway productions, including Hollywood star Christian Campbell, it'll be playing at Victoria Theatre from October 4-8.

The first Singapore Biennale, an international contemporary art festival, is on from 4 September to 12 November 2006. Fridae interviews three openly gay artists participating in the Biennale: the Filipinos Jos� Legaspi and Yason Banal, as well as Australian Philip Brophy.

Singapore's GLBT Pride Season comes to a close this week with We, the Citizens: TalkingCock in Parliament, a light-hearted forum for people of all orientations, hosted by husband-and-wife filmmakers and satirists Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen.

With a new three week-long festival of Singapore plays starting today, theatre critic Ng Yi-Sheng reflects on how the gay theatre of the early 90s may have made a key difference in the cultural shift toward a society more accepting of homosexuality.

One of the greatest, gayest, most deliciously decadent musicals ever made, Cabaret is coming to Singapore from July 22 - 30, directed by Beatrice Chia and starring Taiwanese pop legend Fei Xiang in the flamboyantly pansexual role of the Emcee.

One's a campy, in-your-face Filipino-Californian drama queen. The other's a Hong Kong-Australian ex-computer engineer stud next door. What could they have in common? They're the funnymen of "Camp Comedy", the side-splitting comedy show coming soon to Zouk, Singapore.

Created for Her Majesty Elton John's 50th birthday bash and later performed to awestruck audiences worldwide, Burn the Floor is now on its Asian tour and is set to crashland in Singapore later this month before moving on to Seoul, Osaka and Tokyo.