Q&A featuring Michael Musto and Joey Preston

Thursday, May 19 / 7 PM / FREE

Join writer and cultural commentator Michael Musto, and Curtis’ cousin Joey Preston—two intimates of the superstar—for a screening of Superstar in a Housedress, a feature film that examines the life and legend of the Warhol superstar, poet, playwright, and performer. The film features on-camera interviews with actor Harvey Fierstein; Ellen Stewart, founder of LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club; John Vaccaro, founder of The Play-House of the Ridiculous; Paul Morrissey, director; superstars Holly Woodlawn and Joe Dallesandro; Penny Arcade, Musto, Preston, and a host of other friends and colleagues. The feature includes rare video and film clips of Jackie performing; music by jazz musician and composer Paul Serrato; photographs by Jack Mitchell, who is also included in the show; and narration by Lily Tomlin.

About Joey Preston

Preston’s mother Josephine was a featured cast member of Curtis’ Vain Victory. When Joey was a young boy, Jackie, Holly Woodlawn and Candy Darling came to the apartment in full drag to visit his mother. As an adolescent, Preston and Curtis sometimes hung out in Slugger Ann’s, their grandmother’s bar on the Lower East Side. Preston is associate producer of Superstar in a Housedress and was stage manager and assistant to Curtis for the last six years of his life.

Photograph by Jack Mitchell, appears courtesy of the Jack Mitchell estate.