Collin Quinn Rice Archives

Three actors stand behind a bar. Small Pride flags are visible on the wall of bottles behind them.

Laced has echoes of Stonewall and Pulse

by Catey Sullivan March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

Sam Mueller’s Laced lives in the shadow of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting, but it is rooted in a club that preceded Pulse by several generations: Stonewall. Through Mueller’s monologue-dependent script, About Face Theatre creates a contemporary story that also gives voice to the history that helped forge it. In director Lexi Saunders’s raw, emotive […]

Photos of three artists associated with Laced at About Face: Sam Mueller, Collin Quinn Rice, and Mariah Copeland

Arts & Culture

Collective healing

by Adam M. Rhodes March 16, 2022March 16, 2022

Queer bars are more than just bars that happen to be queer. They can be a refuge, a meeting place, and, quite literally, a safe space. They’re also places where our history has been written: from the Stonewall riots to the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Sam Mueller’s latest production unpacks what happens when the safety and […]