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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Bio Play WHEN THERE ARE NINE Will Open in February at Pride Arts Center


by Stephi Wild - December 29, 2021

Casting has been announced for PrideArts’ production of WHEN THERE ARE NINE. This world premiere by American writer Sally Deering is a dream play in which the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalls the personal relationships and professional challenges she made on her life’s journey ...

Cast Announced for THE THINGS I COULD NEVER TELL STEVEN Presented by PrideArts


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 13, 2021

PrideArts will reopen the Pride Arts Center with the American premiere of THE THINGS I NEVER COULD TELL STEVEN by Australian writer Jye Bryant. Bryant’s four-character musical introduces us to the mother, father, wife, and ex-boyfriend of a man named Steven. Each of them has a different idea of what...

Past Shows

F***ing Men
F***ing Men
7/1 - 8/26/2018


In this present-day updating of Schnitzler’s LA RONDE by Joe DiPietro (MEMPHIS, I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE), ten men - a hustler, soldier, ...

Holding the Man
Holding the Man
8/5 - 8/26/2018


An Australian play chronicling the 15-year relationship of a real-life gay couple, based on Timothy Conigrave’s celebrated memoir of the same name. That memoir won ...

Hurricane Damage
Hurricane Damage
8/1 - 8/26/2018


Hurricane Gilda has spared Oscar and Dennis' home on the Florida coast, but the appearance of old friend Norman, a photographer who has led a ...

Perfect Arrangement
Perfect Arrangement
9/21 - 10/22/2017


It’s 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying ...

Confessions of a Mormon Boy
Confessions of a Mormon Boy
9/7 - 9/10/2017


A story of extremes—from perfect model Mormon in Utah to perfect rent boy in Manhattan—outcast Steven Fales ultimately finds a middle ground and learns what ...

Mormon Boy Trilogy - Parts 2 and 3


Part 2 - MISSIONARY POSITION: A Coming-of-Age Tale This raucous, poignant prequel to CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY—based on Steven Fales’s journals from his LDS ...

Puppet Playdate with Grandma D


Meet Grandma D, a cuddly, old retired inventor, who invites children each week to join her for timely, age appropriate stories that explore our world ...

The Nance
The Nance
6/29 - 8/13/2017


Beane’s play recreates the naughty, raucous world of burlesque's heyday and tells the backstage story of a gay performer, Chauncey Miles, whose role in the ...

Unity in Dance


A program of same-sex dances choreographed and performed by members of the Gus Giordano Dance Company....

Queer Bits Film Festival


Queer Bits Film Festival, now in its fifth year, will be presented on Saturday, June 17. The festival showcases LGBT short films, chosen from English ...

Beds
Beds
6/4 - 6/16/2017


The double-bill BEDS, directed by David Zak, will begin performances June 4th. It includes Jerker, a two-character play by Robert Chesley, that premiered in 1986 ...

SheFest
SheFest
6/12


SheFest, (formerly LezFest), a one-night variety show which celebrates queer, female-identified artists through music, movement, spoken word, storytelling, and stand-up comedy will be performed Monday, ...

Broadway in the Broadway


Final installment of Christopher Pazdernik's series of three cabarets saluting LGBTQ characters and writers....

Jumpers for Goalposts


Tom Wells; dir: Matt Torney....

Musical Comedy Whore
Musical Comedy Whore
5/31 - 6/4/2017


David Pevsner, an out gay actor and Skokie native who has appeared in New York productions of When Pigs Fly and Party, contributed songs to ...

Nominee Night


Performances by Jeff Award-nominated musical theater performers, with music direction by Jeff Award nominee Robert Ollis....

The Boys in the Band


The Boys in the Band is widely acknowledged to be the first gay-themed play to attract mainstream attention, it opened at a New York City ...

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert


Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the Musical is the heartwarming, uplifting adventure of three friends, Tick, Bernadette and Adam, a glamorous Sydney-based performing trio who ...

Bleacher Bums
Bleacher Bums
9/22 - 11/6/2016


Bleacher Bums, which premiered in 1977, was written collaboratively by members of the Organic Theatre Company, from an idea by actor Joe Mantegna, who appeared ...

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