The Downtown Urban Theater Festival is already underway, but there are still three promising plays with queer content, that may also have bisexual characters.
In 2001, DUTF was founded with the purpose of building a repertoire of new American theater that echoes the true spirit of urban life and speaks to a whole new generation whose lives defy categorizing along conventional lines.
According to the festival director, the three most likely remaining candidates for queer/bisexual theater are:
SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013
El Gringuito by Éric-Dominique Pérez
El Gringuito is an autobiographical story of a redheaded Latino growing up between New York and Puerto Rico and being too Puerto Rican in one place and "too gringo" in the other. Éric-Dominique Pérez explores the ups and downs of finding acceptance in a community where "you don't look like anyone around you.” It's a poignant and hilarious account of looking different while trying to belong.
*3/10/13: I saw this play and it was interesting, but not at all bisexual or queer. The two below look more promising.
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013
Ni***/Fa**** by Keelay Gipson
A meditation on race and sexuality as viewed through the prism of workplace politics. This play puts two completely different people in a room and challenges them to move past their assumptions of one another and perceived cultural stereotypes. Somewhere in NYC this conversation is happening--Are you a part of it?
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013
B-Boy Blues by James Earl Hardy
When Bed-Stuy-born/Ivy League-educated magazine editor Mitchell Crawford and homeboy from Harlem/high school dropout/bike messenger Raheim Rivers meet, it is lust at first sight. Naturally, they hook up—and, to their surprise, get hooked on each other. B-Boy Blues is based on James Earl Hardy’s best selling novel.
Showtimes are all at 8:30pm and the theater location is:
HERE
145 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10013-1548
Enter on Dominick St.
One block south of Spring St.
Subway: C/E to Spring St.; 1 to Houston St.; N/R to Prince St.
To order tickets by phone call 212 352 3101
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