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by Jim Farmer
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February 16, 2012 23:41 |
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Although the Alliance Theatre’s version of “The Wizard of Oz” is being staged as part of the company’s Family Series, openly gay actor Patrick MColery is fully aware that audiences will probably be divided between younger patrons and LGBT theater fans. “Oz” opens Feb. 25.
In this stage version of the beloved, iconic film, McColery has a number of roles. He plays Uncle Henry, as well as one of the munchkins and the apple tree. He even puppets the Wizard character.
Most of the small cast doubles as various characters, he says. The only performer in the cast who doesn’t double is the actress playing Dorothy. As for Toto, the character is a puppet but “has plenty of life,” says McColery.
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by Jim Farmer
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February 10, 2012 13:07 |
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In theater and performing arts circles, Bernadette Peters is practically peerless – and at this stage of her career, the LGBT favorite has the right to pick and choose where she likes to perform. Luckily, she has chosen the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for an upcoming engagement.
Peters will be in town Feb. 18 as part of the second annual Symphony Gala, a performance/fundraiser for the symphony and its education and community engagement programs. The event was the right one at the right time, says Peters, just through with another Broadway run.
“I get offered these kinds of gigs a lot and I had not been to Atlanta for a while,” she Peters says. “This event benefits the whole creative process, which is important to me.”
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by Dyana Bagby
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January 24, 2012 15:41 |
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Johnny Drago is a writer who likes to tackle everything from 6-foot tall vaginas to soap opera dinner theater.
But Drago has also been writing "erotic satire" under a pseudonym, "Dale Vigor," that takes on the subjects of pornography, gay relationships and, well, seafood.
Vigor makes his debut reading on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m. at the Drive-By Theater Project. Drago answered a few questions about himself and Vigor ahead of the reading dubbed "Pornography vs. Art." The reading will include explicit material and is intended for mature (mature?) audiences only.
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by Jim Farmer
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January 20, 2012 00:00 |
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For all its critical adoration and awards — including a Pulitzer Prize and an acclaimed HBO adaptation with Emma Thompson — one thing is missing from the resume of Margaret Edson’s play “Wit” – a Broadway engagement. That changes next week. In previews now, “Wit” officially opens on Broadway for the first time Jan. 26. (Its 1998 New York engagement was not an official Broadway production). The Manhattan Theatre Club is staging the play with openly lesbian actress Cynthia Nixon in the role of Dr. Vivian Bearing, a college professor who is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Looking back at her life in flashbacks, Vivian realizes that she could be as cold and uncompassionate to her students as the doctors are to her now.
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by Jim Farmer
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January 06, 2012 00:00 |
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The gay-themed “Next Fall,” which opens Jan. 12 at Actor’s Express, reunites two artists who haven’t been as active recently in the local theater scene as we might like: out director Kate Warner and out actor Mitchell Anderson.
On Broadway, the drama – co-produced by Elton John and his partner, David Furnish — was nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, after much success off-Broadway a year earlier.
The play centers around the relationship between twentysomething Luke (Joe Sykes) and the older Adam (Mitchell Anderson), who is 40. From a religious standpoint, they are completely different. Luke is a fundamentalist Christian and Adam is something of an agnostic.
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