The late Robin Williams left plenty of memorable characters in his wake, but few resonate with me more than Armand, the gay drag club owner at the center of Mike Nichols’ 1990s classic The Birdcage. A usually doting partner to his drag queen superstar husband Albert, Armand finds himself pushed back into the closet when his son tries to introduce him to his fiancée’s conservative Republican parents. Both hilarious and politically incisive, The Birdcage, a remake of the 1978 French farce La Cage aux Folles, stands up surprisingly well through a modern lens.-THEM