18th Annual Out On The Edge Festival Kicks Off With COME AS YOU ARE 10/23

The Theater Offensive's 18th Annual OUT ON The Edge Queer Theater Festival, happening October 23 through November 14, announces updates! The official line-up will begin with the world premiere of Come As You Are: Celebrate Queer Sex!, a nationally coordinated, locally produced series of performance events celebrating the role of sex in the queer liberation movement, 40 years after Stonewall.

Other provocotive features include:
Womb-Words, Thirsting starring Lenelle Moise
SINsation starring Sherry Vine & Joey Arias, of Cirque De Soleil
and
Tim Miller's Lay of the Land

And that's not even all of it! More announcements are coming soon! This year's festival is bulging at the seams with the number of performances and diverse content than ever before! All of this is taking palce in an intimate cabaret atmosphere at the Calderwood Pavilion.

When you sign up to help distribute promotional posters for OUT ON The Edge, you can earn a chance to win free tickets to one of the performances! Put up 10 posters around Boston, document it with a photo, send The Theater Offensive your photos, and you'll receive 2 tickets to any show in the festival of your choosing (subject to availability, of course)! To sign up, or get more information, e-mail Eugene Tan at eugene@thetheateroffensive.org.

The mission of The Theater Offensive is to form and present the diverse realities of queer lives in art so bold it breaks through personal isolation and political orthodoxy to help build an honest, progressive community.

In 1989, founding Artistic Director Abe Rybeck and a group of artist/activists formed The Theater Offensive to expand on the success of the gay men's guerrilla theater troupe, United Fruit Company. The Theater Offensive mounts and produces festivals and individual productions by national and local queer performers, and also serves as a development environment for new theatrical work. In addition, The Theater Offensive works to build community through education, outreach, and political activism.