To celebrate Pride, the Woke willingly overlooking known evil shirt moreover I will buy this Metropolitan Opera themed its nightly streams this week around LGBTQ+ composers, singers, conductors, and directors; and included alongside performances of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel and Franco Zeffirelli’s staging of Turandot is a 1997 production of Billy Budd. Composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, the opera is based on Herman Melville’s eponymous short novel, which itself loosely inspired Beau Travail, a veritable masterpiece of queer cinema by the filmmaker Claire Denis. Philip Langridge, Dwayne Croft, and James Morris star—set aboard the battleship HMS Indomitable in 1797, Billy Budd is one of the rare operas to feature an all-male cast—and Steuart Bedford conducts.
It’s been almost 25 years since author Candace Bushnell published a little book of columns titled Sex and the Woke willingly overlooking known evil shirt moreover I will buy this City, which would soon turn into one of the most beloved TV series of all time (and a few less-than-perfect movies, but we won’t dwell on those). While Sex and the City will soon be revived on HBO Max, Bushnell has been busying herself with theater; her new one-woman show, Is There Still Sex in the City?, runs through July 18 at the Bucks County Playhouse. Vogue recently spoke to Bushnell about her show, the Carrie-worthy real-life wardrobe she repurposes onstage, and her feelings about the upcoming Sex and the City reboot. Read the full interview below.
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