Gay plays

We’re proud to share a list of 35 non-musical plays that bring these issues to the stage, from to present day. This groundbreaking play premiered Off-Broadway in and ran for 1, performances. Get the play here.

In the second part, the plague of AIDS worsens, relationships fall apart as new ones form, and unexpected friendships take form. The play was shut down after performances and prompted the adoption of a state law dealing with obscenity. Two of the central characters are outsiders: Guy Bennett is coming to terms with homosexuality and Tommy Judd is a committed Marxist.

SAY GAY PLAYS is theater activism. Celebrating pride month helps promote diversity, equality, acceptance, and respect of the LGBTQ+ community. We provide access to short plays by queer playwrights from around the country to use as a tool for change.

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He still has a chance to flee to the continent but chooses to let the train leave without him. Pick up one (or all of them) play. Check out this map of past, current, and future performances of SAY GAY PLAYS nationwide.

In the second act, Wilde is in Naples more than two years later, after his release from Reading Gaol. This play is about who he was, what happened to him and why. Ranked lower on the human scale than Jews, the men as avowed homosexuals, flee. The three-act melodrama was among the first Broadway plays to deal with lesbianism and caused a scandal in New York City.

Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former drag queen who works as a nurse, and an angel. He died a suicide, forgotten and alone. Turing, who was also the first to conceive of computers, was convicted of the criminal act of homosexuality and sentenced to undergo hormone treatments which left him physically and mentally debilitated.

Since his work was classified top secret for years after the war, gay one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for breaking another code the taboo against homosexuality. Judd wants to abolish the whole system of British life; Bennett wants a successful career within it.

As they get to know each other, their shared experiences and sense of humor create a strong bond. The school and the system have traditional ways of dealing with rebels. Get the plays here. Capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, for colored girls… offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry.

LGBTQIA Plays and Musicals : In celebration of Pride Month, here’s a timeline of influential and groundbreaking LGBTQ-themed plays and musicals, placed in the context of queer history

Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an income to match. Told with a likable, human voice, Arnold struggles through love, disease, and the challenges of child-rearing. June was chosen as Pride Month in by former President Obama to commemorate the Stonewall Riots that occurred in Pick up one or all of them today!

In exile, he is drawn to a reunion with his unworthy lover and a final betrayal. In celebration of Playbill Pride, take a look at some of the plays that brought LGBTQIA+ stories to the stage. Attempting their escape, Rudy is beaten to death as Horst, another homosexual prisoner, warns Max to deny his lover.

Act One captures him in on the eve of his arrest. The tragic consequences of their kiss — the center of this powerful drama — serve as both indictment of hatred and a moving study of the perils inherent in living life fully. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease.