By Rex Reed 11/22/11 11:19am

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Wild Animals You Should Know at Lucille Lortel Theare.

Trip Cullman-Directed Boy Scout Coming-Out Play Doesn’t Do Ripe Subject Material Justice

All through Wild Animals You Should Know, a morose little taste of darkness down at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Christopher Street, I kept wondering why so many people were laughing hysterically. The woman next to me kept saying, “What are they laughing at?” Good question. The play, written by Thomas Higgins and directed by Trip Cullman, is about a teenage jock who comes out of the closet in the creepy and clandestine world of homosexual Boy Scouts of America. It’s sad, unsettling and occasionally homoerotic, but it isn’t even remotely funny. Read More

By Aaron Gell 9/24/10 3:53pm

Corny! Stephen Colbert’s Big Gay House Subcommittee Joke (Video)

That was awkward. When Stephen Colbert was invited to testify before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security, it was bound to be an interesting moment for C-SPAN viewers. And Colbert didn’t disappoint, offering up a spirited in-character attack on undocumented workers that was actually a sly attempt to undermine opponents of Read More