Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All indie films should have the longevity of Del Shores’ deep-fried 2000 Southern comedy “Sordid Lives.” A beloved cult film among ...

Writer-director Del Shores’ 2000 comedy “Sordid Lives” could be described as John Waters meets Jeff Foxworthy, a collision of you-might-be-a-redneck tackiness and camp grotesquerie, like the Deep ...

One has to admire the three-ring circus-like showmanship of Del Shores, a comedian and filmmaker who has made his native Texas his personal stomping grounds, in the wacky and very busy comedy “A Very ...

Riverfront Playhouse will present SORDID LIVES, the black comedy written by Del Shores and directed by Patrick Deering, ...

Del Shores’ 1996 play “Sordid Lives” is one of those works that requires a balance of humor and heart. Shores wrote the play as a comedy but wanted it to be something more than a vehicle for laughs. I ...

The Del Shores Foundation will present a one-night-only 22nd anniversary benefit screening of the original "Sordid Lives" film Oct. 29 at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. All proceeds from the event ...

For playwright Del Shores, growing up gay in Winters, Texas, couldn’t have been easy. It not only prompted him to leave, but to pen dark comedies such as “Southern Baptists Sissies,” “Daddy’s Dyin’: ...

In 2013, playwright and filmmaker Del Shores served as an honorary grand marshal during Atlanta Pride. While he’s written and directed many times over, people along the parade route kept screaming out ...

After the performance, playwright Del Shores spoke about the hullabaloo among the neighbors of Wimberley, occasionally reading names from the Aug. 14 petition that called for the play to be canceled.

“Sordid Lives: the Series,” a prequel to the series, premiered on LOGO in July, 2008. While the show only lasted one season, Shores says “the fans kept wanting more.” The fans got their wish earlier ...

Del Shores' 2008 prequel series to his cult classic is currently streaming on Tubi, featuring one of Leslie Jordan's best performances. As Shores himself wrote in a look back at his gay cult classic, ...