August 2016
Abraham Lincoln Was A F*gg*t
The story of 17-year-old Cal and his quest to prove the secret sexual history of Gaybraham Lincoln. Along the way there is convincing evidence, time travel, a road trip to the nation’s capital, budding high-school romance, a crazy Mary Todd, and sex in a stove-pipe hat. The past and present collide in this time-hopping, pop music-Michael Jackson -infused quest as Cal sets out to uncover the colorful truth about his favorite president. It is a clever, touching and unapologetically gay comedy about history, truth and what it means to be a hero…then and now. Cal wants to stir stuff up as much as he can: He embarks on a crusade to prove that Lincoln–a national role model, portrait on our greenbacks, and his personal hero–was homosexual, with at least two undocumented lovers. A lavender legacy. Cal’s private demons clearly fuel his urge for historical revisionism. His assumption that somehow it’s more right to be gay if famous mentors once were remains unquestioned until the play’s shocking
Make Me A Song
A poignant and compelling musical revue by two-time Tony Award winner William Finn, creator of the groundbreaking musical Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and conceived by Rob Ruggiero. Finn, whose work doesn’t sound like any other composer’s, is spotlighted in a fresh showcase of quirky, ruminative, agitated songs that fit right into the neurotic energy of the city. Songs from Finn’s Falsettos, A New Brain, The Royal Family of Broadway, Elegies: A Song Cycle and more are heard in the six-actor, one-pianist revue. The musical tells personal, haunting, and often hilarious tales from Finn’s rich and touching human songbook
Looped
Based on a real event, Looped takes place in the summer of 1965, when an inebriated Tallulah Bankhead needed eight hours to redub – or loop – one line of dialogue for her last movie, Die! Die! My Darling! Though Bankhead’s outsized personality dominates the play, the sub-story involves her battle of wills with a film editor named Danny Miller, who has been selected to work that particular sound editing session. It’s the last day of post-production on Die! Die! My Darling, one of those schlocky gothic thrillers that allowed former grande dames and sex goddesses of the screen to scrape a living in their later years, or simply pass the time before the cameras until the ultimate final cut. A single line of dialogue requires looping — re-recording to match the film — but Tallulah cannot manage to speak the requisite syllables in the proper order. As she stalls and stutters, expressing infinite scorn for the tedious process, she perfumes the stale air of the studio with snappy
September 2015
Local Playwrights Festival
June 1 - 5 Four One-Acts Wednesday - Saturday @ 8 PM, Sunday @ 2 PM A Point of Diminishing Returns by Cory Skurdal Directed by Jack Petersen Ulysses McKinley Rutherford Harding Garfield Hayes III, a venerable but clueless Ohio politician, is hot on the campaign trail, and busily shaking hands, kissing babies, and seeking votes. Unfortunately, for this particular stump speech, Ulysses has chosen the wrong venue and the wrong audience. And when Ulysses decides to abandon his prepared remarks and speak from his heart, he and the event have nowhere to go but down. Alexander the Great in Love and War by Amy Drake Directed by Mark Phillips Schwamberger While studying philosophy with Aristotle, Alexander meets Hephaestion, who becomes his life partner, traveling companion, and comrade-in-arms. Together they face adversaries on and off the battlefield. Eventually Alexander must take a bride, or two, to expand his empire. Will Alexander and Hephaestion be able to maintain their bond when the royal household takes a
June 2015
Book of Merman
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POZ The Story of Edison
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