Kathleen Warnock News

August is looking very gay in Philadelphia with the fourth annual GayFest! - a festival of LGBT theater presented by Quince Productions at Plays & Players and two spaces in the Adrienne Theatre. This year's festival, today, August 5-23 at various theaters in Philadelphia, is bigger than ever, with three special events, four mainstage plays, and five one-night stands (of the theatrical variety, that is!).

Theaterspeak will present WRITE OUT FRONT, an installation of over 125 award-winning and up-and-coming playwrights writing new plays in the storefront window of the Drama Book Shop during store hours, today, August 1st - 31st. In each two-hour time slot for WRITE OUT FRONT, a different playwright will write a new play on a laptop, while the screen shot of their computer is projected onto a 42' monitor facing the passersby on the street, making their normally private creative process public.

Theaterspeak will present WRITE OUT FRONT, an installation of over 125 award-winning and up-and-coming playwrights writing new plays in the storefront window of the Drama Book Shop during store hours, August 1st - 31st. In each two-hour time slot for WRITE OUT FRONT, a different playwright will write a new play on a laptop, while the screen shot of their computer is projected onto a 42' monitor facing the passersby on the street, making their normally private creative process public.

August is looking very gay in Philadelphia with the fourth annual GayFest! - a festival of LGBT theater presented by Quince Productions at Plays & Players and two spaces in the Adrienne Theatre. This year's festival, August 5-23 at various theaters in Philadelphia, is bigger than ever, with three special events, four mainstage plays, and five one-night stands (of the theatrical variety, that is!).

TOSOS presents Kathleen Warnock's The Further Adventures of..., directed by Igor Goldin, with Mark Finley & Jamie Heinlein at HOT! Festival @ Dixon Place tonight, July 16 at 7:30pm. ONE NIGHT ONLY!

TOSOS presents Kathleen Warnock's The Further Adventures of..., directed by Igor Goldin, with Mark Finley & Jamie Heinlein at HOT! Festival @ Dixon Place July 16 at 7:30pm. ONE NIGHT ONLY!

TOSOS presents Kathleen Warnock's The Further Adventures of..., directed by Igor Goldin, with Mark Finley & Jamie Heinlein at HOT! Festival @ Dixon Place July 16 at 7:30pm. ONE NIGHT ONLY!

FRIGID New York presents A Hard Sparks production: CHICKEN-FRIED CICCONE: A TWANGY TRUE TALE OF TRANSFORMATION, written and performed by J.Stephen Brantley and directed by David Drake. The show will run tonight, February 20th - March 3rd, 2014.

FRIGID New York presents A Hard Sparks production: CHICKEN-FRIED CICCONE: A TWANGY TRUE TALE OF TRANSFORMATION, written and performed by J.Stephen Brantley and directed by David Drake. The show will run February 20th - March 3rd, 2014.

Tonight at 5:00 PM Pacific Time, Night Owl Reviews is hosting an exclusive author chat with five top Cleis Press authors: Delilah Devlin, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Alison Tyler, Neil Plakcy, and Kathleen Warnock. The writers will discuss their latest titles, and chat with readers and fans about the experience of writing erotic and romantic fiction.

Following the sold out performances and overflow crowds for its Cino Nights presentations (including new plays by Gary Sunshine, Mando Alvarado, Courtney Baron, Florencia Lozano, Kristen Palmer, Emily DeVoti, Lucy Thurber, Jessica Dickey, Adam Szymkowicz, Laura Eason, Daniel Reitz, Megan Mostyn-Brown, Dael Orlandersmith, Keith Reddin, Crystal Skillman, Charlotte Miller, Brooke Berman, Cusi Cram, Daniel Talbott, Diana Stahl, Micheline Auger, Halley Feiffer, Steve DiUbaldo, Catya McMullen, Alec Silberblatt, and Emily Zemba), Rising Phoenix Rep continued the series on Tuesday, November 26th at 8 p.m. with a new play by Sarah Shaefer titled I Can't Explain It Better Than That. BroadwayWorld has photos from the show below!

Following the sold out performances and overflow crowds for its Cino Nights presentations (including new plays by Gary Sunshine, Mando Alvarado, Courtney Baron, Florencia Lozano, Kristen Palmer, Emily DeVoti, Lucy Thurber, Jessica Dickey, Adam Szymkowicz, Laura Eason, Daniel Reitz, Megan Mostyn-Brown, Dael Orlandersmith, Keith Reddin, Crystal Skillman, Charlotte Miller, Brooke Berman, Cusi Cram, Daniel Talbott, Diana Stahl, Micheline Auger, Halley Feiffer, Steve DiUbaldo, Catya McMullen, Alec Silberblatt, and Emily Zemba), Rising Phoenix Rep continues the series tonight, November 26th at 8 p.m. with a new play by Sarah Shaefer titled I Can't Explain It Better Than That.

Following the sold out performances and overflow crowds for its Cino Nights presentations (including new plays by Gary Sunshine, Mando Alvarado, Courtney Baron, Florencia Lozano, Kristen Palmer, Emily DeVoti, Lucy Thurber, Jessica Dickey, Adam Szymkowicz, Laura Eason, Daniel Reitz, Megan Mostyn-Brown, Dael Orlandersmith, Keith Reddin, Crystal Skillman, Charlotte Miller, Brooke Berman, Cusi Cram, Daniel Talbott, Diana Stahl, Micheline Auger, Halley Feiffer, Steve DiUbaldo, Catya McMullen, Alec Silberblatt, and Emily Zemba), Rising Phoenix Rep continues the series on Tuesday, November 26th at 8 p.m. with a new play by Sarah Shaefer titled I Can't Explain It Better Than That.

Brooklyn lawmaker Dov Hinkind protested the presence of adult literature in Brooklyn Public Library, arguing that minors would have access to materials that were not age appropriate. As shown in this ABC Eyewitness News clip on July 10th, Hinkind had received several complaints from his largely Orthodox Jewish constituency about the ready accessibility of adult titles in several branches of the Brooklyn libraries. Interestingly, the titles he chose to hold up as examples were all LGBT, including Ily Goyanes's Girls Who Score, Richard Labonte's Best Gay Erotica series, and Kathleen Warnock's Best Lesbian Erotica series. Whether or not this was an intentional choice, it seems to reveal an underlying concern about children being exposed to specifically gay and lesbian content. Hinkind wants these and other titles moved behind the counter at libraries.

Please join TOSOS and Center Performance for a special presentation of Street Theater, Doric Wilson's award winning satire about Stonewall tonight, June 20th, 2013 at 7:30 pm; doors open at 7:00 pm. at the The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street (between 7th Ave. and Greenwich Ave). Directions: http://www.gaycenter.org/contactus.

Director Mark Finley talks about STREET THEATER tonight, June 18th, 7-8 PM, WBAI Radio, 99.5 FM. Tune in for WBAI Radio's OutFM at 7 PM for two exclusive interviews with the directors of two powerful documentary films that are screening in theaters in New York City this week.

Please join TOSOS and Center Performance for a special presentation of Street Theater, Doric Wilson's award winning satire about Stonewall on Thursday June 20th, 2013 at 7:30 pm; doors open at 7:00 pm. at the The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street (between 7th Ave. and Greenwich Ave). Directions: http://www.gaycenter.org/contactus.

The Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project (Kathleen Warnock, Curator) presents a FREE reading of Jane Chambers' 'My Blue Heaven' tonight, January 26 at 7pm, in The Mitchell Room, ART/NY 520 8th Ave., 3rd fl.

The Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project (Kathleen Warnock, Curator) presents a FREE reading of Jane Chambers' 'My Blue Heaven' on Saturday, January 26 at 7pm, in The Mitchell Room, ART/NY 520 8th Ave., 3rd fl.

Horse Trade Management Group will present the 7th Annual FRIGID New York Festival, an open and uncensored theatre festival that gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination. In true support of theatre on the fringe of the mainstream, 100% of box office proceeds will go directly to the artists. Boasting over 150 performances and 30 shows over 12 days in 3 theaters, FRIGID New York will kick off the annual North American Fringe Circuit with a bang!