When Tennessee Williams first met Frank Merlo, a handsome, athletic, working-class Italian-American from NJ at a Provincetown bar in 1947, he was already the celebrated playwright of The Glass Menagerie. What began as a one-night tryst turned into a 14-year romantic partnership, which they also enjo...

Project Moves Dance Company shocked the audience at Fire Island Dance Festival 18 as five young dancers began their number wearing signs with homophobic slurs. Committed to sharing a powerful message of human respect and acceptance, the Massachusetts-based dance company ultimate shed the insults an...

Seth Sikes - Filmed at Fire Island Pines 2022 Based on “Theme from San Francisco”by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann As performed by Judy Garland.
Additional Lyrics by Seth Sikes and Lisa Lambert .
Footage by Luis Villabon, Jack Aaronson. Drone footage by Isaac Namdar.

Violinist and actor Edmund Bagnell, known to many audiences from his role in the popular gay string quartet Well-Strung, has released a new cover of the Stephen Sondheim classic “No One Is Alone” which has particular resonance during these months, which are solitary for many. Bagnell also heads, app

Performed on the shores of the Great South Bay July 15-17, Fire Island Dance Festival raised $655,090 to help ensure those across the country living with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other debilitating illnesses have access to lifesaving medications, counseling, healthy meals, housing and more. Produced b

At the 2017 Fire Island Dance Festival, Havana, Cuba’s Acosta Danza, led by dance legend Carlos Acosta, presented For Us, a mesmerizing ballet that explored the passion, frustration and sadness of a couple in love. Dancers Mario Sergio Elías and Raul Reinoso expressed this tragic love story through

How Come U Don't Love Me Anymore? for Fire Island Dance Festival Choreography by Al Blackstone Music: "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" by Prince. Featuring James Whiteside Alex Biegleson Marc Cardarelli Julien Valme Adrian Lee Chris Jarosz Edward Cuellar

the annual Fourth of July Invasion of the Pines attracts hundreds of drag queens and thousands of spectators to what has become an annual Independence Day event. The queens arrive at the Fire Island Pines Harbor. On the afternoon of July 4 each year, drag queens from both Cherry Grove and the Pines ...

Directed by Paul Hunter, the “Man Of The Woods” clip finds Timberlake getting in touch with his inner lumbersexual. The outdoorsy setting shows JT balancing on a log, ziplining from a treehouse and rowing a boat. He eventually makes his way to a party at a log cabin where he dances with his wife, Je

Once-in-a-lifetime pairings of ballet and contemporary luminaries, three remarkable world premieres, an excerpt of a seminal piece that changed the history of modern dance and unpredictable weather conditions marked this year’s sold-out Fire Island Dance Festival on July 20-22, 2018. The 24th editio