Homosexual themed play

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:09am

Is there a REALLY good, homosexual themed play with a gay lead character?

If so, can anyone give me titles? My school is doing this Gay and Lesbian festival thing and we want to start off the weekend with a funny, yet also serious show. Can anyone help?

[meagan9848]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:13am

do musicals count?

[mikeonbroadway]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:18am

Yes, there are lots...unfortunately many of them aren't "school appropriate." My personal favourite (and always will, I suspect) is Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Also, Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion!...both of those are AIDS plays but pretty much deal with them in their confines of the gay community (I know, I know...AiA is about so much more than that, however a big chunk...). Anyway...AiA is very serious and funny in parts, where L!V!C! is very funny and serious at the same time.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:20am

Plays...shorter plays, at that. LVC sounds good. Who publishes it?

[pab]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:20am

As Is
Bent

Updated On: 9/24/04 at 01:20 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:29am

I need publishers too.

[mesmerized24601]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:34am

I really liked The Normal Heart I saw it in NYC and have read it three times since then.

[mikeonbroadway]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:35am

You can find it on amazon for like $8, but if you mean who you can write to get the performance rights to, I don't know. A theatre teacher at your school should know, or be able to find out for you, though.

[pab]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:37am

As Is - Vintage Books
Bent - Applause Books

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:38am

Thanks!

Except for Bent sounds really dramatic... Updated On: 9/24/04 at 01:38 AM

[leomaxfrank]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:54am

if musicals count Falsettos is probably the best. marvin is the lead character and left his wife and child for another man.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:58am

Look at Torch Song Trilogy--each act can be done as a separate play--the 3rd act being the best, perhaps.

Also, look at Harvey's play Safe Sex.

[pab]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 2:02am

Of course there is always "The Boys In The Band".

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 2:35am

Auntie Mame. End of discussion.

[broadway86]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 9:10am

Angels in America
The Laramie Project (?)

[Waylon]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 10:01am

Jeffrey (silly but really not that long of a play)

If I was at home I could give you some titles, but I have sevearl anthologies of queer plays and solo pieces. One is is called Solohomo I think. I want to say that I purchased most of them at Barnes and Nobles.

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 10:04am

Death Trap is good.

[Waylon]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 10:07am

I LOVE that play. One of my favorite reads. You know...it's funny...you don't even know there is a gay plot until the second act. This would be a great show for you to do. Not a lot of cast members...really one unit set if I remember correctly.

[TheGaIsSilent]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 10:27am

Jeffrey! :)

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 11:16am

Beautiful Thing
What's Wrong With Angry?

[uncageg]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 12:07pm

Bent
Find Your Way Home

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 12:11pm

SO so many good gay-themed plays:

Six Degrees of Separation (John Guare -- Great!)
Cloud Nine (Caryl Churchill -- Act II, especially; brilliant)
Take Me Out (Richard Greenberg)
The Baltimore Waltz (Paula Vogel)
Boston Marriage (David Mamet)
The Lisbon Traviata (Terrence McNally -- Great!)
The Ritz (Terrence McNally -- a bit dated, but hilarious)
Love! Valour! Compassion! (McNally)
Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Musical -- Kander & Ebb; McNally wrote the book)
The Destiny of Me (Larry Kramer)
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Paul Rudnick)
Valhalla (Paul Rudnick)
Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach (Paul Rudnick -- hilarious))
The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me (David Drake)
The Last Sunday In June (Jonathan Tolins)
Short Eyes (Miguel Pinero)
The Killing of Sister George (D. Frank Marcus -- probably dated)
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Joe Orton)
Match (Stephen Belber)
Gemini (Albert Innaurato)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Musical -- John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask)
La Cage Aux Folles (Musical -- Jerry Herman)
Rent (Musical -- Jonathan Larson)
Gross Indecency: The Trials of Oscar Wilde (Moises Kaufman -- Great)
I Am My Own Wife (Doug Wright -- Great!)
A Language of Their Own (Chay Yew)
Pterodactyls (Nicky Silver)
Fit To Be Tied (Nicky Silver)
Blade To The Heat (Oliver Mayer)
The Sum of Us (David Stevens)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:14pm

End of the World Party - Chuck Ranberg
My Night With Reg - Kevin Elyot
Corpus Christi - Terrance McNally
Southern Baptist Sissies - Del Shores
A Late Snow - Jane Chambers
The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me - Dan Butler
Lonely Planet - Stephen Dietz

[QueenS]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 1:21pm

Sordid Lives (by Del Shores) is one of the funniest plays I've ever seen.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 2:32pm

There is a funny and relevant play called
FIRST COUPLE, written by Jefferson Beeker, about the first gay president.

More info: jeffersonbeeker.com