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One Day More — Les Misérables comes to Rochester November 20-24

November 2, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Empty Closet Featured Interviews

Les Mis cast in One Day More | credit: Matthew Murphy Cameron Mackintosh presents the new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, Les Misérables, direct from an acclaimed two-and-a-half-year retur ...

The One Who Resisted: KaeLyn Rich and Girls Resist!

October 3, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Community Spotlight Empty Closet Featured Interviews LGBTQ+ Living Local News

By Javi Mason “Don’t wait for someone else to come save you or give you the answer. You have the answers and the ability to build power and you already have everything you need to make change. Be your own superhero.” --Activist and Author KaeLyn Rich ...

Look To Your Heart — A Bronx Tale comes to Rochester this month

October 1, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Empty Closet Events Featured Interviews

Based on the critically acclaimed play that inspired the now classic film, A Bronx Tale will take you to the stoops of the Bronx in the 1960s—where a young man is caught between the father he loves and the mob boss he’d love to be. The show comes to the ...

SAGE Profile: Thomas Somerville

July 11, 2018

by Out Alliance Community Spotlight Elders Featured Health Interviews LGBTQ+ Living

by Fiona Jones If you haven’t met Thomas Somerville, he wants you to know his name is spelled “S-o-m-e. There’s no u’s and no- not two m. Everyone likes to spell it like it’s Summerville- ”. Tom believes that “a good teacher finds that for everybody” a ...

Community Profile: Ambush Rochester

June 15, 2018

by Out Alliance Community Spotlight Featured Groups Interviews LGBTQ+ Living Women

Ambush Rochester bills itself as a “monthly LGBTQ+ women’s happy hour that happens every 2nd Friday as a means to network and create space for women where there normally is none.” Jen Doyle and Kate Sweeney, who many may know through HRC Second Thursdays ...

Girlish – Growing Up in a Lesbian Home | Interview with Lara Lillibridge

May 14, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Empty Closet Featured Interviews

By Rowan Collins Author and writer Lara Lillibridge had a distinctly different upbringing from many of her peers in Irondequoit in the 70s and 80s. After twenty years away, she returned to Rochester on April 3 to celebrate the release of her new b ...

Angel? Indeed

April 10, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Empty Closet Events Featured Interviews Local News

RENT comes to Rochester's Auditorium Theatre as part of RBTL's 2017-2018 lineup from May 1-6, 2018 (tickets at rbtl.org or 585-222-5000): The Empty Closet had the chance to speak with the RENT tour’s Angel, Aaron Alcaraz, on the phone earlier in March. T ...

Mark Groaning: A Man for All Seasons

March 23, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Empty Closet Featured Interviews LGBTQ+ Living

By Ron Cook Whether it’s painted windows, steel sculptures, dragons, photography, jewelry, or tee shirts artist Mark Groaning has created them all. Mark recently spoke with the EC about his work, career, and what it takes to be an established artist. E ...

I Got Rhythm: An American In Paris…In Rochester

March 1, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Empty Closet Interviews

The thrilling story of a young American soldier, a beautiful French girl and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war. An American In Paris, featuring a score including the songs “I Got Rhythm,” “‘S Wonderfu ...

Writing From the Gut: An Interview with Rachel McKibbens | part 2

February 27, 2018

by Out Alliance Arts & Entertainment Empty Closet Interviews

by Javi Mason Photo credit: Hannah Betts of Lives Styled | Sarah C. Rutherford's 'Her Voice Carries' project This is the second of a two-part interview with nationally-recognized poet, Poetry & Pie Night co-founder, Pink Door Writing Retreat head, and ...