City Theatre
Pittsburgh’s newest Christmas-themed show is a sequel of sorts.
“Claws Out: A Holiday Drag Musical” was inspired by “Santa’s TED Talk,” a short, cabaret-style solo show that debuted at City Theatre in 2019 as a complement to a production of The Santaland Diaries. Drag performer Shua Potter played Rachel Claus, a hard-partying Jewish lady of a certain age from Queens who’d found herself hitched to the jolly guy at the North Pole. Claws Out: A Holiday Drag Musical continues through Jan. 10
Potter co-wrote “Santa’s TED Talk” with City Theatre associate producer Monteze Freeland. This year, the two teamed with composer Douglas Levine to craft a full-length show. It s streaming through Jan. 10.
In the wee hours of Thanksgiving morning, well past Miami-Dade County s midnight curfew to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a line of people outside a Wynwood warehouse stretched down the block, according to a six-second video clip.
Another short video shows a more jarring scene inside the nightclub at 55 NE 24th St., which until recently was called Wynwood Factory. The 15 seconds of footage show dozens of sweaty househeads, many of them maskless, squeezed together on the dance floor, bouncing shoulder to shoulder to hard techno beats.
Warnings from local, state, and national infectious-disease experts to avoid large indoor gatherings did not deter those ravers from attending the first party at the venue since the pandemic shut it down back in March.