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It’s Hallowe’en day today but folks have been dressing up and celebrating since Friday night (Thursday night, in some cases) … and that includes celebrities. The official Twitter accounts of celebs have been blowing up with fun photos of some of our fave celebs in costume. Click below to see some of my fave photos that I’ve seen thus far.

Yesterday news spread very quickly that actor Zachary Quinto casually came out as gay in an interview with New York magazine. While I yearn for the day the “coming out” is no longer necessary, newsworthy or controversial, I must reiterate my happiness with the way that Zachary handled the situation. Instead of making a big deal about coming out, Quinto just very casually referred to himself as a gay man in the course of his conversation with New York mag. But, later in the day, Zach posted a message on his official blog that clarified and explained why he decided to come out now. Click below and read his very powerful message.

Actor Zachary Quinto is gay. And it’s no big deal … at all. In a new interview with New York magazine, Zac talks about his recent performance in the play Angels In America and he reveals how important it was for him as a gay may to give his best performance possible. Just like that … no big announcement, no hoopla for media attention, no magazine coverstory. Just in passing, while talking about his work, Quinto casually refers to himself as a “gay man”. And that, my friends, is how it should be done.

Zachary Quinto, bless his heart, made his way to Berlin, Germany to attend the Berlin Film Festival this week and the poor dear got caught with egg on his face. Well, actually, he got caught with too much make-up on his face. You’d think that man of his age would at least know how to properly apply make-up, wouldn’t you?

About a month ago we got to check out some rehearsal photos from the Broadway revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, the 2 time Tony Award winning Best Play by playwright Tony Kushner. Today we get to see a batch of fantastic production photos from Angels in America which features Zachary Quinto, Bill Heck, Billy Porter, Christian Borle and others:

Performances have already begun and because the shows keep selling out so quickly, the show’s run has been extended again until February 20, 2011. This is a show that I really hope to be able to see. I am really interested in seeing Zachary on stage, live. I’m hoping to get my buns to NYC so that I can see the show before it ends its extended run.

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In 1993 Tony Kushner‘s award winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes opened on Broadway and set the theater world afire by winning the Tony Award for Best Play in 1993 and 1994 (because the play is performed in two parts, Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika — each part won the Best Play Tony in their respective years) and now 17 years later Angels In America is ready for its revival. Starring Zachary Quinto, Robin Bartlett, Christian Borle, Bill Heck, Zoe Kazan, Billy Porter, Robin Weigert and Frank Wood, Angels is being produced by the Signature Theatre Company and will open at the Peter Norton Space on October 28 (tho the show will go into previews on September 14). Due to overwhelming demand, the show has been extended for 6 more weeks with performances going into 2011. Here are a few photos of the Angels In America cast rehearsing the show and some deets about the performance extension:

Due to overwhelming demand, Signature Theatre Company (Founding Artistic Director James Houghton; Executive Director Erika Mallin) is pleased to announce a six-week extension for the first New York revival of Tony Kushner’s ANGELS IN AMERICA: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, directed by Michael Greif. The production, originally slated to run through December 19, 2010, will now play through Sunday, January 30, 2011. ANGELS IN AMERICA, begins performances on September 14 and opens October 28 at the Peter Norton Space (555 West 42nd Street). Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, the two parts of ANGELS IN AMERICA, will begin alternating in repertory from the start of performances … Signature Theatre Company Artistic Director James Houghton says, “It is deeply gratifying to see the overwhelming response to Tony Kushner’s essential ANGELS IN AMERICA. We are thrilled that New York audiences are as excited about seeing this landmark work as Signature Theatre Company is about producing it.” ANGELS IN AMERICA features Robin Bartlett as Hannah Pitt, Christian Borle as Prior Walter, Bill Heck as Joe Pitt, Zoe Kazan as Harper Pitt, Billy Porter as Belize, Zachary Quinto as Louis Ironson, Robin Weigert as The Angel and Frank Wood as Roy Cohn.

I have never been fortunate enough to be able to see his play performed live. In college, I was approached to be a part of a production that was being put together by one of my favorite professors but I knew that I would not do well on the performance stage and opted out. I’ve read and LOVED the play for many years now. I am very excited that Angels In America will be performed again on the Broadway stage … I hadn’t planned on making my way to NYC in the coming months but I would deffo like to make my way to the Big Apple just to see this show performed live. Those of you who are able to see this show this Fall MUST check it out. It’s such a powerful story, one that I can only imagine is stunning to watch performed live. You can get your tickets (as low as $20 each) HERE. Even if I’m not able to see this show myself, do yourselves a favor and check it out.

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James Franco, who recently hosted Saturday Night Live and appeared in a story-arc on the long-running daytime drama General Hospital, was on hand at a private screening in NYC for his new film Howl. In Howl, Franco plays the famed beat poet Allen Ginsberg and, from what I’m hearing, gives an Oscar-worthy performance. Buzz about Franco‘s performance in Howl is even spreading amongst the Hollywood crowd because celebs themselves (Michael Stipe, Zachary Quinto, Brooke Shields, Dustin Lance Black, Björk and more) were clamoring to get into this special screening:

James Franco has been many things lately: NYU student, artist, soap opera star. So it’s not entirely surprising that the hunky actor managed to transform himself, with a pair of black-frame glasses and an adopted haute-Jersey accent, into outspoken twentieth-century poet Allen Ginsberg. Franco’s latest film, Howl, draws on actual interviews and smoky back-room readings and partly reenacts Ginsberg’s 1957 obscenity court case to paint a portrait of the Beat-era bard. Last night at the Crosby Street Hotel, a Cinema Society audience got an early look at the new movie and at Franco, who stood in the packed theater throughout the whole thing. Clearly, he’s got a thing for poets on screen: Among his recent projects is a short film based on the work of Anthony Hecht, and, in a few days, one inspired by Frank Bidart’s uncompromising poetry will (like Howl) play at Utah’s Sundance Film Festival. “I think poems work very well as films,” Franco insisted, adding that he’d had Ginsberg’s voice (and Howl, Ginsberg’s best-known work) in his head since he was about 16. “I’ve listened to dozens and dozens of recordings of him, over the years, reading that poem,” he said. “I’d listen to them in my headphones walking around New York.” Franco wasn’t the only one feeling the Beat. Björk and Matthew Barney lingered well into the after-party, and Alicia Silverstone revealed that free verse also plays a regular role in her life: “My husband has me read Charles Bukowski poems to him,” she said. “It amuses him.”

As you may recall, we saw photos of Franco on the NYC set of Howl last March and as far as looks go, Franco wears Ginsberg‘s chunky glasses very well … he looks very much the part. I think we learned in Milk that Franco has the acting chops to deliver an Oscar-worthy performance … I am SO excited for this film. While I am a huge Jack Kerouac fan, I have a huge appreciation for Ginsberg and his work. I’m certain this film will do well at the film festivals which means, hopefully, it’ll be in theaters where we normal people can see it soon.

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Zachary Quinto was spotted on the SoCal set of Heroes over the weekend and it looks like he was gearing up for a very exciting and possibly eye-popping scene for the show:

But, in order to NOT spoil anything for those of you who watch the show and don’t want to see what happens to Zachary‘s character I’ve decided to put the next two very telling photos behind the cut. After the jump, check out a couple of spoilery photos of Quinto on the set of Heroes — something tells me you might want to brace yourselves before you LOOK …

Yesterday afternoon David and I attended a theatrical reading/performance of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, An Epilogue which is a sequel of sorts to the critically acclaimed play The Laramie Project which chronicled the year after the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard took place in Laramie, WY. Laramie: 10 Years Later picks up 10 years after Shepard‘s brutal murder and chronicles the ways Laramie has changed and not changed in that time. Yesterday’s performance took place at the Hollywood United Methodist Church and featured an all-star cast of players … Julie Benz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dexter), Christian Clemenson (CSI: Miami), James Cromwell (Babe, The Queen), Lisa Edelstein (House, M.D.), Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory), Barrett Foa (NCIS: Los Angeles), Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), Pauley Perrette (NCIS), Zachary Quinto (Heroes, Star Trek), Helen Shaver (The L Word), Michael Weatherly (NCIS). Here is a photo of the cast, taken by Richard Settle from the United Methodist Church, and an interview with actress Pauley Perrette about the performance:

NCIS’ Pauley Perrette and more of TV’s biggest stars are banding together for a one-time performance of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation and stand up for gay rights. The play is a sequel to The Laramie Project, which was based on the reactions of people in Laramie, Wyo., after Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student, was murdered there in 1998. The new production revisits the townspeople a decade later and also portrays an interview with one of Shepard’s killers. The new play began performances across the country on Oct. 12. Perrette said she was approached by a member of her church, Hollywood United Methodist Church, about putting together a reading of the play there. Pretty soon, Perrette’s NCIS co-star Michael Weatherly, The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki, House’s Lisa Edelstein, Dexter’s Julie Benz, Heroes’ Zachary Quinto and Emmy winner Christian Clemenson were all on board. “We have so many people from so many different shows, which is fun,” Perrette toldTVGuide.com. “Everyone we called was like, ‘I’m in.’ It’s really incredible. We’re just extremely excited, and it’s really amazing to have that many people come together to do something that’s important.” The reading is planned to coincide with a book signing and speaking appearance by Shepard’s mother, Judy. All proceeds go to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which promotes antiviolence toward the gay and lesbian community. Perrette, who describes herself as an “outspoken civil rights activist who never shuts up,” says it’s important for people to stand up and be heard. “With so much going on with Prop. 8 and everything else right now, LGBT civil rights activism is what’s most necessary,” Perrette said. “In the women’s movement, women needed men to stand up and say this isn’t right. In the civil rights of the ’60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights. And in this case, it takes straight chicks like me to demand equal rights for everybody.” Perrette also said it is incumbent on the government to make changes. “I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything,” she says. “So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn’t support equal rights and civil rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.” Coincidentally, moments after we interviewed Perrette, news broke that the Senate passed a hate-crimes amendment that was partly inspired by Shepard’s murder.

The performance yesterday was … stunning. I was not fully prepared for the emotion that overwhelmed me as I heard the works spoken on that stage. It’s pretty incredible to know that it’s been 10 years since Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered for being gay and so much remains unchanged in that time. I cannot for the life of me imagine what it must feel like to endure that kind of loss … hearing the words spoken from the people of Laramie really hit me hard. Kudos goes out to the cast and crew of this extremely powerful performance. I urge all of you to read The Laramie Project and, if possible, see a performance of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, An Epilogue and be reminded that hate crimes are still as prevalent in this country today as they were 10 years ago … and earlier. I’m encouraged that the Senate finally passed a hate crimes amendment … it is a great step forward in policing the safety and protection of all US citizens.

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