Post by GayCities New York editor JJ Keyes
I admit it, every August I quit the TKTS line cold turkey and head downtown to become a total New York drama queen at the New York International Fringe Festival. FringeNYC, which runs from August 13-29, is the largest multi-arts festival in North America. This year, I’ve weeded through the 200-company roster of events to give a special shout out to the pink shows on the GayCities radar. All tickets and showtimes are available at the FringeNYC website.
Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret at La MaMa E.T.C.
Megan Doss, a new millennium queen of downtown theater, takes us through Scot Marshall and Rita MenWeep’s world of pasties, glitter, drag. (Oh My!) Shimmy over the rainbow to see what kind of new trouble Dorothy is cooking up.
As You Like It at The Connelly Theater
The hilarious BAMA Theatre Company, featuring the devilishly handsome Greg Foro, hits a home run with their genderbending take on this outlandish Shakespearian comedy. Who says love’s a drag?
The story of a group of young men at Harvard in 1920 whose promising futures fall prey to Harvard’s “Secret Court”: a furtive gay witch-hunt by the president and deans of the school to expurgate Harvard of all homosexuality. Sounds like a gay Crucible of a good time.
Missionary Position at the Soho Playhouse
Judith Light invited my boyfriend and I to see Steven Fales’ hit Confessons of a Mormon Boy at a benefit for the Point Foundation a few years ago. Steven returns to the FringeNYC with his funny and touching coming-of-age tale based on his journals as a missionary in Portugal.
Joe Salvatore’s III was a sexy hit in the 2008 FringeNYC. Open heart looks like it’s going to open pandora’s box on the concept of the modern-day open relationship. Ready to push some boundaries?
Over and Over at the Cherry Lane
I’ve been following Tim Aumiller’s work for years and urge you to check out what’s in store for you with Over and Over. Following the heels of the hit Hello My Name is Billy, his new play is an investigation of the complex and intimate terms of the relationship between two former roommate/lovers. Ring a familiar bell for you? I’m sure it does.
When Last We Flew at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Is Harrison David Rivers on your radar? He should be. In his latest play, misfit teenager Paul begins reading a stolen copy of Angels in America and discovers that his dull Midwestern life is about to take flight.
The Momentum at The Robert Moss Theatre @ 440 Studios
If you missed Children at Play last summer, you’ve got to get in on the CollaborationTown party. Cutie-pies Boo Killebrew, Geoffrey Decas O’Donnell, Jordan Seavey and TJ Witham premiere their latest comedy that will pull you into the gaping, spinning hole of their Momentum.
The Secretaries at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
The Five Lesbian Brothers lead you into a murderous Slim-Fast drinking, high-heel wearing, big-haired world of secretaries who work the desks of the Cooney Lumber Mill in Big Bone, Oregon. It’s just like your office, only with chainsaws. I might go to every performance of this one. It sounds too good to be true.
BUNKED!: A New Musical at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
LogoTV brings you the story of five summer camp counselors as they embark on their first taste of adulthood. We may have found our very own Wet Hot GAY American Summer.
Head over to Stonewall for a gin martini after the show or visit Poppi Kramer and Shanna Sharp at the Duplex if you feel like getting up and singing after all that theater.
Wanna find the perfect place to go out before or after the show? A great weekend hotel stay? Check out our completely fabulous New York guide by JJKeyes
