Jinkx Monsoon did not pass up the chance to call out "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling for her anti-trans views in a new Ziwe interview.

Monsoon, meanwhile, is currently transitioning between two massive theater projects. After playing the role of Ruth in the Tony-nominated Pirates! A Penzance Musical, Monsoon is gearing up to star as Mary Todd Lincoln in the Tony-winning play Oh, Mary! Monsoon takes over the role from Tituss Burgess starting on Monday (Aug. 4).

In 1938, Orson Welles hosted a radio version of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” that reportedly sent listeners into a panic by treating the alien invasion as a breaking news broadcast. Skip forward to today, and a witless, straight-to-streaming adaptation of Wells’ novel seems highly unlikely to alarm anybody, confining the global takeover by …