The titular girlfriend in the local premiere of the two-person musical (book by Todd Almond, music and lyrics by Matthew Sweet) kicking off PrideArts’s 2022-23 season never appears. Referred to only fleetingly, she is nevertheless both presence and absence throughout the story of two young gay men who fall in love after their high school […]
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The Things I Could Never Tell Steven is a musical portrait of an enigma
After a year-and-a-half shutdown, the storefront theater formerly known as Pride Films and Plays is back open for business in Buena Park. Returning to live performance, the LGBT-focused company now called PrideArts has not only a new name but a new artistic director, a reconfigured black-box space with new seats and upgraded air-conditioning, and a […]
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The founder of Pride Films and Plays is gone. What happened? What’s next?
PFP’s story contains lessons about board oversight and artist empowerment.
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Judy and Liza—Once in a Lifetime shows the bond between two divas
A cabaret homage to Garland and Minnelli lights up the Greenhouse.
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Haymarket is a workmanlike ode to the working man
Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and two hours of inertness onstage.