Inspired by Edith Wharton and Jacob Riis’ social realism, this absorbing NYC period drama has a gay angle and is grandly performed and richly theatrical.
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Speed Queen
A madcap lesbian historical and musical fantasia where performer and creator Phoebe Legere recounts the eccentric life of the legendary Joe Carstairs.
Time No Line
A mesmerizing multimedia collage by acclaimed performance artist John Kelly. It’s his memoir told through song, dance and film derived from his journals.
Harold Pinter and Nicholas Hytner
The acclaimed British director recounts two dramatic exchanges with the great and temperamental playwright in his memoir of running the National Theatre.
Lady Macbeth and Her Lover
A spellbinding drama spanning two decades about two lesbian poets and one’s daughter. It’s brilliantly performed, excellently written and smartly staged.
A Soldier’s Play
Gripping and powerfully performed revival of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning, racially charged murder mystery set at a Louisiana, U.S. army fort in 1944.
Afterglow
In contemporary NYC, a young married gay male couple brings in a third. This insightful play is highly theatrical, fiercely acted and has a lot of nudity.
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
In this exquisite revival of Joe Orton’s 1964 subversive black comedy, a sexy young man infiltrates the lives of his landlady, her father and her brother.
Her Opponent
Provocative recreation of the Clinton vs. Trump presidential debates has actors of reversed genders portraying them, and is a startlingly theatrical event.
Lone Star
A beer drinking, melancholy Vietnam veteran and his hapless, younger brother figure in this roaring revival of the one-act play set at a rural Texas bar.