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Sasha Velour is a gender-fluid drag queen known for her performance artistry, fierce activism, and boundary-breaking scholarship. Sasha is the founder and director of the acclaimed New York City drag revue NightGowns. Her first one-queen show, Smoke & Mirrors, toured to 90 theaters around the world from 2019-2022, including the Folies Bergere and the London Palladium. Her best-selling book The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifest of Drag outlined the untold history of drag alongside her own life (Harper, 2023). She is currently on tour with a stage show of the same name and the show will be at Proctors in Schenectady, New York on March 2.

Tonight at Franklin Plaza in Troy, New York, the Pride Center of the Capital Region is hosting their 2023 Gala: Amplifying Queer Voices of All Ages. The event will include music drag performances, a silent auction, and dinner. New York City based drag performance artist, event host, TV personality, and professional musician Thorgy Thor is coming to town to host and emcee the event.

The Fisher Center at Bard, currently celebrating its 20th Anniversary Season: Breaking Ground, will present its 16th year of Spiegeltent programming for Bard SummerScape 2023. The Spiegeltent, installed annually on the Bard grounds, serves as a platform for cutting-edge live music, performance, dancing, and more.Caleb Hammons is Fisher Center Director of Artistic Planning and Producing and he joins us with a Spiegeltent season preview.

Hung With Care, Big Gay Hudson Valley’s queer holiday burlesque spectacular will return to The Linda - WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio on November 28 at 7 p.m - with performances the previous two nights in Newburgh and Rosendale. Big Gay Hudson Valley Co-Founder Stephan Hengst joins us to tell us more.

On Sunday, a Berkshire County drag legend kicks off a new series at the historic Naumkeag estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.When the COVID-19 pandemic…

On Friday, drag queens will flock to Sheffield, Massachusetts to compete in The 2020 Mx. Nogood Berkshire Drag Pageant.Oskar Hallig, president of Only In…

On Sunday, “RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars” Season Three winner Trixie Mattel takes her act to The Egg in Albany, behind her new album “Barbara.” WAMC spoke…

Shawn Stone joins us to talk about what he's seen lately and what cultural events are coming up this week in our region.Seen: "Downhill"Upcoming:"Magic" -…

The Dorset Theatre Festival production of The Legend of Georgia McBride runs through Saturday.He’s young, he’s broke, his wife is having a baby. And now,…

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the story of an East German transsexual who moves to America after a botched sex change operation. As the show begins, Hedwig…