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David Cromer's gritty revamp of Rent is a show for America at the start of the millennium
Posted inArts & Culture

His life and times

by Albert Williams May 11, 2012August 19, 2021

Two Jonathan Larson works, Tick, Tick . . . Boom! and Rent, get local productions.

Posted inBlogs

About Face Update

by Deanna Isaacs March 6, 2009August 19, 2021

About Face Theatre is one-third of the way to survival.

Posted inBlogs

About Face trims season plans

by Albert Williams February 25, 2009August 19, 2021

About Face Theatre launches an emergency fundraising campaign.

Posted inBlogs

Reader reviews of Old Glory and Stupid Kids

by Tony Adler February 20, 2009August 19, 2021

New Reader reviews of Stupid Kids and Old Glory

Posted inBlogs

Let’s give a hand to The Boys in the Band

by Albert Williams December 23, 2008August 19, 2021

The pioneering gay play, The Boys in the Band, at 40.

Posted inBlogs

My fair drag queen

by Tony Adler December 4, 2008August 19, 2021

About Face Theatre’s holiday party features an LGBTQ-friendly concert performance of My Fair Lady.

Posted inNews & Politics

Don’t Call It a Gay Play

by Mara Tapp December 2, 2004August 19, 2021

Moises Kaufman, the celebrated director of The Laramie Project and I Am My Own Wife, talks about the injustice of labels, theater that’s stuck in the past, and his new project—a Tennessee Williams script too daring for its time.

Posted inArts & Culture

Kind of a Drag

by Justin Hayford March 6, 2003August 19, 2021

Justin Hayford reviews Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife and Alexandra Billings’s Before I Disappear.

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