Nicholas Wilder, Nick Baldock photo: John MacLellan

Written by James Edwin Parker
Directed by Justin Amellio
Produced by Richmond Triangle Players

Daryl and Peter met earlier that evening in a bar. It’s 5am, winter of ’87, in a spare, well-appointed apartment in Greenwich Village. They know nothing about each other, except that they share an attraction, and that they just had some great sex.

Chatty Daryl, seeking a boyfriend, wants to discuss relationships, jobs, and determine their compatibility. Rugged and taciturn Peter wants to sleep. He only wants a good time. They sexually, verbally and emotionally joust with each other in what becomes a poignant, frightening, intimate, yet frequently humorous encounter.

Cast includes: Nicholas Wilder, Nick Baldock.

Show contains nudity.

January 11, 2012
Richmond Triangle Players Theatre, Richmond, Virginia

Joel Smith Liz Casebolt photo: Jeff D. Larson

Written, directed, performed and produced by Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith

Performance duo Casebolt and Smith deconstruct their creative process in a fast-paced, intricately layered, meta-theatrical evening of brash humor, quick repartee and imaginative choreography. A demonstration of what they can, can’t – and won’t – do as dancers.

Relying on their friendship and shared sense of humor, the pair reveals their choreographic methods and collaborative rapport to analyze gender and sexuality politics, as well as the overly serious traditions of modern dance. They speak directly to the audience, sing while dancing, and layer the performance with pop culture references, offering a complex and hilarious glimpse into the minds and pants of the performers.

January 13, 2012
Actors Company Theatre, West Hollywood, California

Patrick Heusinger, Patrick Breen photo: Shandon Youngclaus

Written by Geoffrey Nauffts
Directed by Bart DeLorenzo
Produced Susan A. Loewenberg

Two men in love, two parents in denial, and two friends on speed dial. Luke believes in God, Adam believes in everything else. When an accident changes everything, Adam must turn to Luke’s family and friends for support and answers.

L.A. Theatre Works offers a live, recorded for radio performance of Geoffrey Nauffts’ hit play.

Cast includes: Patrick Breen, Patrick Heusinger, Jeremy Webb, Julie White, Maddie Corman, Sam McMurray.

January 19, 2012
L.A. Theater Works - James Bridges Theatre, UCLA School of Theatre, Film, Television, Los Angeles, California

J. Michael Feldman, puppeteer Jess McKay photo: Stephen Rowan

Written by J. Michael Feldman
Directed by Annie McVey
Produced by Daniel Shoenman, Elliot Shoenman

Percy Rutherford takes over, where other less-able social know-it-alls leave off, in this comedic mash-up of folklore, fables, and folly. Among the tales he tells we find one about the gay termites Ryan and Steve, who are newly married due to the Insect Marriage Act. The guys uncover a shocking secret, but learn an important lesson, naturally, through a fairy tale.

Some stories are told using hand puppets.

Cast includes: J. Michael Feldman, Courtney Pauroso, Corey Podell, Kimrie Davis, Eileen Mullane, Jess McKay, Matt Cook, Tina Huang.

January 20, 2012
The Matrix Theatre, Los Angeles, California

Julia Prud’homme, Gigi Bermingham

Written by Kathryn Graf
Directed by Joel Polis
Produced by Gary Grossman, Katselas Theatre Company

Tessie May, begins her work in the kitchen at dawn. Her son Jimmy, who is gay, arrives home from partying at that time. Her younger son, Colin, wakes to conquer opponents in familiar video games. Their daily routines keep them isolated from small town prejudices, and not needing to face their unspeakable, secret pain. This evening, however, their carefully balanced life may become undone.

Cast includes: Gigi Bermingham, Julia Prud’homme, Nicholas Podany, Brendan Patrick Conner, Wolfie Trausch.

Opened October 22, 2011 - Extended run began: January 20, 2012
Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles, California

Ian MacKinnon photo: Don Tinling

Written, produced and performed by Ian MacKinnon
Directed by Wendell Jones

With his cyber-sexual time traveling hot pants, and his sexy Genie guide, performance artist Ian MacKinnon takes a porn-o-storical journey through thousands of years of homo history cruising a plethora of Gay icons.

Featuring hot histo-graphic hookups with Plato, Rumi, Lincoln, Melville, Fredrick the Great, Edward Carpenter, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Karl Ulrichs, Ginsberg, Socrates, Whitman, Hafiz, Ganymede, Alexander, Hadrian, Zeami, Bayard Rustin, and more.

Performed in “Gay Love-O-Vision!”

“Gay Hist-Orgy, is a smart, smutty crash course in homo history. … The avant-garde production not only recounts our culture’s journey through the centuries, but also proposes the existential questions, ‘Who are we as a people, and why are we here?’As a seasoned performance artist/gay activist, MacKinnon utilizes myriad sources from a diverse spectrum of time periods in his quest to answer these queries. More importantly, he approaches the subject with humor and a raging libido.” - Frontiers Magazine

February 18, 2012
Moving Arts, Los Angeles, California

Harry Hart-Browne photo: Ed Krieger

Written and performed by Harry Hart-Browne
Directed by Mark Bringelson
Produced by Mark Bringelson and Katselas Theatre Company

A 20-character, one-man-play about a lifetime on Earth, and a gay actor trapped in his role.

With boundless endurance, the adventure unfolds through the comedic, and heartfelt ingenuity of award winning Harry Hart-Browne, whose recent drama “Cologne” (about teen boy relationships) won critical acclaim in Los Angeles.

February 20, 2012
Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles, California

Alex Kirschner, Soren Santos photo: Lois Tema

Written by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham
Directed by George McGuire
Produced by David Beery, Norm Abramson, and The Anderson Prize Foundation

Clive, an aristocratic Englishman with a life of privilege, shocks his close friend Maurice by declaring his love for him. This declaration was not only brazen, but, because homosexuality was outlawed in Great Britain before World War I, was also highly dangerous.

The play is based on E.M. Forster’s suppressed 1914 novel, “Maurice,” which was only published after his death.

Cast includes: John Hurst, Alex Kirschner, Soren Santes, Lindsay Murray, Andrew Nolan, Hilary Hyatt.

February 24, 2012
New Conservatory Theatre Center, Decker Theater, San Francisco, California

Amir Levi photo: David Silva

Written by Amir Levi
Directed by Shauna Horn
Produced by Alive Theatre and Inventing Room Productions

When Amir’s first relationship crumbles, dashing his boyhood dreams, he quickly finds that the fairy tale courtships of his beloved matriarchs seem nowhere to be found.

An autobiographical story which challenges postmodern gay identity through Amir’s cultural desire to create a nuclear family based on traditional values. Strongly influenced by the love stories of his mother and grandmother, Amir shares his Builla’s rhythm, his mother’s taste in curly-haired men, and thinks he’s destined to be the next matriarch of his Mexican-Israeli-Jewish-American family.

Cast includes: Amir Levi, Willie Fortes.

March 6, 2012
Longbeach Playhouse, Studio Theatre, Long Beach, California

Bianca Leigh photo: Michael Wakefield

Written and performed by Bianca Leigh
Songs by Jeff Domoto, William TN Hall, Taylor Mac, Ellen Maddow, Isam Rum and Matty Pritchard, Super Buddha, and Jeff Whitty
Directed by Tim Cusack
Produced by Theatre Askew

During the stock market crash of 1987, Bianca cools her 6-inch heels in the clink awaiting arraignment on a charge of solicitation. Looking back, she tries to make sense of how a skinny Jersey boy — with dreams of becoming a great Shakespearean actress — ended up as a high-priced dominatrix.

In a tour-de-force performance, both hilarious and moving, Bianca revisits her past as a young transwoman in early transition, and brings to vivid life more than a dozen characters; from her disappointed mother, to the sadistic corrections officer who enacts the ultimate humiliation.

March 8, 2012
Laurie Beechman, New York, New York

Written and directed by Leo Geter
Presented by Circle X Theatre Company

Kristen Burrows has hit upon a brilliant way to transform the sins of her youth into lots of cash: she’s going to combine her adult film past with a born-again future. However, things get more than a little out of hand when she invites a Christian radio talk show host to dinner and meets her family, including her teenage son Duncan, who has just embarked on a career as a gay porno performer.

What do a porn star, a stripper and a soldier have in common with a Christian, a Muslim and a Mormon? They all want to get naked before god. What’s left to reveal, once they’ve bared it all?

This wild and darkly comic romp is R-rated - for mature audiences 17+.

Cast includes: Larry Clarke, Christopher Foley, Jen Kays, Aly Mawji, Morgan McClellan, William Salyers, Jennifer A. Skinner.

March 24, 2012
[Inside] the Ford, Hollywood, California

Jonathan Slavin, Emerson Collins photo: Ed Krieger

Written by Matthew Leavitt
Directed by Dámaso Rodriguez
Produced by Del Shores, Linda Toliver, Gary Guidinger

Five bedrooms, five couples, and one same-sex marriage face the ultimate test.

“The Boomerang Effect” comedically explores the cause-and-effect principle. From playwrite Leavitt: “The concept of one single principle being utilized so differently by so many different fields made me think about the play’s five couples — and the universal complications in their sexual relationships — despite the differences in scenario and detail. But really, it’s a comedy about sex.”

Cast includes: Joel Bryant, Jonathan Slavin, Kimberly Hamilton, Tiffany Lonesdale-Hands, Charles Howerton, Liza de Weerd, Katherine Bailess, Will Christoferson, Emerson Collins, Luke McClure.

March 24, 2012
Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, California

Courtney McCotter, Kerry McGee photo: John MacLellan

Written by John C. Russell
Directed by Jason Campbell
Produced by Richmond Triangle Players

Four students at Joe McCarthy High School make their way from first-through-eighth period and beyond, struggling with fears, frustrations, and longings. Jim is the new guy in town, sexy, a rebel. Judy is the popular blonde cheerleader. Neechee and Kimberly are the resident outcasts, both of whom are secretly gay. Will Jim become popular? Will Judy hook up with Jim? Will Neechee and Kimberly come out? Rapid, stylized, music video-like scenes, astonishingly reveal the hearts and minds of contemporary youth.

Cast includes: Courtney McCotter, Joe Winters, Kerry McGee, Alexander Gerber.

March 28, 2012
Richmond Triangle Players Theatre, Richmond, Virginia

Robert Patrick photo: Robert Patrick

Written, directed, produced and performed by Robert Patrick

Pioneer, gay playwright Robert Patrick, appears with a unique collection of large photographs, and tells of the creation of gay theater at New York’s Caffé Cino (1958-1968).

He will tell stories of the caffé’s farsighted producer Joe Cino, his lover Johnny (who connected the Caffé Cino to the subway electrical supply), and such world-famed artists as writers Lanford wilson, John Guare, Tom Eyen (“Dreamgirls”), William M. Hoffman (“As Is”), Tom O’Horgan (“Hair,” “Jesus Christ Superstar”), Bernadette Peters, Tiny Tim, and Al Pacino, who got their start there.

The hour-long illustrated talk will be followed by a “Q & A” hour with Mr. Patrick. The event is sponsored by Bruce Vilanch.

A May 15, 2010 version of Mr. Patrick’s lecture is available on DVD:
    Caffé Cino: Cradle of Gay Theatre

A sample of Robert Patrick’s 60 published plays:
    The Haunted Host (1964)
    Salvation Army (1969)
    Camera Obscura (1969)
    Kennedy’s Children (1974)
    T-Shirts (1979)

Collections and Anthologies:
    Gay Plays: A First Collection
    Contra/Dictions
    The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories
    Flesh and the Word, 2 & 3
    Best Gay Erotica, 2009, 2010

Screenplays:
    Ghost Story (TV) (1972)
    High-Tide (TV) (1990)
    Robin’s Hoods (TV) (1994)

Also, see our articles by Robert Patrick:
    Playhouse Anecdotes - How it all began
    The Gay Ghost - Gay for pay
    Ghost on the Coast - Spooky profession confession
        List of Robert Patrick’s plays with gay content.

April 4, 2012
Davidson/Valentini Theatre, The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, Hollywood, California

George A. Peters II as “Wesley” photo: Jon-Sesrie Goff

Written by George A. Peters II with B. Fontenont Johnson
Directed and performed by George A. Peters II
Prpoduced by George A. Peters II and Veer Gordan

A one-man show that explores the challenges faced by every man through its portrayal of seven male characters. One of the characters is Wesley, a gay artist rejected by his parents, uses his art as an escape from the frustration he feels towards the stereotypical constraints of manhood. Another character is Willie, an angry young man abandoned by his father and damned by his mother, who rages anger at women while desperately seeking their attention.

May 17, 2012
The Poet’s Den Gallery and Theater, New York, New York

Writers include: Sean Chandler, David Leeper, Adam Siegel, Dylan Costello, George Smart, Leo Schwartz
Directors include: John Nasca, Andrew Souders, David Zak, Derek Bertelsen
Produced by Pride Films and Plays

This is the second annual festival of enhanced staged readings of new works in the “Great Gay Play and Musical Contest.”

Pride Films and Plays producers:
David Zak, executive director
John Nasca, Andrew Souders, artistic associates

Lost in History Fred Tumas, Patrick Rybarczyk photo: David Zak   Written by Adam Siegel Directed by Andrew Souders Ben Goldfarb cares for his demanding father, who lives at a nursing home, while trying to have a baby through a surrogate. His father gets a new roommate, Isaac Strauss, a famous psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor. Ben will learn more about his father, Isaac, and himself in this powerful drama of family and history. Cast includes: *Patrick Rybarczyk, Fred Tumas, Jerry Miller. April 13, 2012 - 7:30pm

Mr. Teddy Mark Boergers, Jude Hansen, Mark Smaglinski photo: David Zak   Written by George Smart Directed by *Derek Bertelsen An exploration of the sexy and complex dynamics of a long-term relationship between three men who are a part of the gay subculture where role playing is the norm and a way of life. “Daddies” Alex and Marc have enjoyed 10 years together with their “son” Teddy, until their friend Joan confronts them and tests their definition of family. Cast includes: *Jude Hansen, *Mark Smaglinski, Kyra Morris, Teddy Boone, Mark Boergers, Alex Wolking. April 14, 2012 - 4:30pm

Hello Norma Jeane Michelle McKenzie-Voigt, Chad Ryan, Rachel Payne photo: David Zak   Written by Dylan Costello Directed by John Nasca Joe’s grandmother admits her deepest secret; she is, in fact, Marilyn Monroe, coming out 50 years after faking her death in 1962. Joe’s search for the truth, his self-worth, and his love for his grandmother are tested to the limit in this funny drama that is full of surprises. Cast includes: *Kris Hyland, *Michelle McKenzie-Voigt, *Chad Ryan, *Kelli Walker, Rachel Payne. David Geinosky. April 14, 2012 - 7:30pm

At the Flash Lee Wichman photo: David Zak   Written by Sean Chandler and David Leeper Directed by David Zak A fictitious gay bar called “The Flash” is seen through the eyes of five characters whose stories are told through a series of inter-woven scenes representing LGBT history from the 1960s. A solo tour-de-force performance. Cast: *Lee Wichman. April 15, 2012 - 1:30pm

Under a Rainbow Flag Kris Hyland, John Landvick Bobby Arnold, Nick Stockwell, Meghan Murphy, Colin Sphar, Tom Chiola photo: David Zak   Written by Leo Schwartz Directed by David Zak Musical direction by Robert Ollis From 1943-1951, Navy Medical Corpsman Jon Philips finds love, joy and loss in the company of other gay men, both stateside and on the battle field, during World War II. This musical is based on real events in the life of Navy Corpsman, Jon Philips, resident of Evanston, Illinois, and is the first musical to be named a finalist in the “Great Gay Play and Musical Contest.” Cast includes: *Tom Chiola, *Kris Hyland, Bobby Arnold, Jon Landvick, Meghan Murphy, Colin Sphar, Nick Stockwell. April 15, 2012 - 4:30

* indicates Artistic Ensemble Members

April 13-15, 2012
Pride Films and Plays
Hoover-Leppen Theater, Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted, Chicago, Illinois
Information: 773-250-3112; pridefilmsandplays@gmail.com

Free presentations by writers, archivists, performers, artists, and activists. These events take place in the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, which houses the world’s largest research library on gay, lesbian, bisexual,and transgendered heritage and concerns.

Produced by ONE Archives and Bill Kaiser, Culture Series chair

ONE Archives, 909 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, California
Wheelie accessible with obstacles
FREE - no reservations
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