OUT September 2014

STRAWBERRY-THAI BASIL GIN AND TONIC Recipe by Ewa Olsen, Cata, New York 4 Thai basil leaves 1 strawberry 3 oz. Martin Miller’s gin Boylan tonic Bruise two basil leaves and place them at the bottom of a highball glass. Drop in two slices of strawberry, crushed gently, and add gin. Fill with ice to the rim of the glass, and place one crushed basil leaf, one fresh leaf, and half the strawberry on top of the ice. Pour as much tonic over it as desired. MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO LONDON Recipe by Caitlin Doonan, Toro, New York 2 oz. Earl Grey–infused gin (see below) ¾ oz. lemon juice 1 barspoon apricot jam Fever-Tree tonic To make the Earl Grey–infused gin: Combine one bottle gin with two Earl Grey teabags, then let…

THE SKELETON TWINS Queer filmmaker Craig Johnson’s funny, poignant tale of an unsettled, suicidal dental hygienist (Kristen Wiig) and her gay, equally suicidal struggling-actor brother (Bill Hader) is already a winner—it nabbed the screenwriting prize this year at Sundance. (September 19) THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY Patricia Highsmith is best known for her gay-tinged thrillers Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Now the bisexual author’s twisty globetrotter about a thief, his wife, and her lover is finally getting the big-screen treatment—with Kirsten Dunst enviably sandwiched between Viggo Mortensen and Oscar Isaac. (September 26) BIRDMAN In this trippy new comedy from Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Biutiful), ex-Batman Michael Keaton is the actor who used to play the titular winged crusader (meta!), now a washed-up diva attempting to mount…

RED BAND SOCIETY Think Freaks and Geeks but set in the children’s wing of a hospital and narrated by a kid in a coma. Given the cast—Oscar winner Octavia Spencer as a no-nonsense nurse, David Annable as a steamy doc, and Wilson Cruz—we’ve already checked in. (Premieres September 17 at 9 P.M. ET on Fox) GRACEPOINT In this 10-episode U.S. version of the British hit Broadchurch, David Tennant returns as a hardboiled detective, joining forces with his sidekick Ellie Miller (Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn) to solve the murder of a young boy killed in the titular idyllic hamlet. (Premieres October 2 at 9 P.M. ET on Fox) A TO Z Hot off their roles on two of TV’s best series, Ben Feldman (Mad Men’s Ginsberg) plays a Celine Dion–belting romantic…

BOOTYCANDY Offering a glimpse of what it means to be black and gay in contemporary America, Robert O’Hara’s tart, smutty satire cruises through dive bars, a church, motel rooms, and even nursing homes, skewering everyone along the way. (Opens September 10 at Playwrights Horizons, New York) ELECTRA What could be more intense than Sophocles’s epic tale of revenge? Seeing it with the luminous Kristin Scott Thomas backed by the peerlessly brooding music of PJ Harvey. Bound to be electric, and not to be missed. (Opens October 1 at the Old Vic, London) WHILE I YET LIVE Billy Porter, the Tony-winning Kinky Boots star, penned this play about his coming of age in Pittsburgh surrounded by a pack of strong-willed women. He won’t be in it, but if he writes as…

BARRACUDA by Christos Tsiolkas (Hogarth, September 9) Daniel Kelly—a.k.a. “Barracuda”—is a working-class kid attending one of Melbourne’s toniest prep schools on a swimming scholarship. When the gay Olympic hopeful’s dreams are dashed, he struggles to find what’s left of himself. NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL by Lena Dunham (Random House, September 30) The voice of at least a generation takes her trademark wit and naked honesty from the small screen to the page in this collection of essays. No doubt she’ll bare it all. NORA WEBSTER by Colm Tóibín (Scribner, October 7) Man Booker nominee Tóibín’s seventh novel follows its titular widowed Irish heroine as she sinks into the suffocating world from which her late husband rescued her. Will her indomitable spirit be enough to save her? NEIL PATRICK HARRIS:…

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