There are few subjects more fit for the stage than Oscar Wilde. He was a larger than life personality, who fundamentally changed the way many think about art, about society, and about sexuality. And of course he was best known in his lifetime as a playwright, so the stage is doubly appropriate. Moises Kaufman’s Gross …
Continue reading Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, by Moises Kaufman-2 May 2021
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is one of the most culturally significant pieces of gay theatre in history. Set during the AIDS crisis of the mid- to late-1980s, the play explores issues of gay identity, disease, economic/political privilege, race and ethnicity, and religion, all set within an apocalyptic and messianic framework. The Penn State theatre …
Continue reading Angels in America, Part One: Millenium Approaches, by Tony Kushner, 3 Mar. 2020
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