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Lee Kociela, Janet McGregor and Darius Rose in Michael Van Duzer's The History of Gay Theatre in Something More Than 60 Seconds. Courtesy of Bill Boland.
Theatre Out, Orange County’s home-grown gay and lesbian theatre company, has found a new venue. Santa Ana’s Empire Theatre (202 N. Broadway), being vacated this week by Rude Guerrilla, will be the group’s new home. The changing of the guard will be marked by a special invitation-only performance on May 29th, with an opening for the general public on May 30th. (The production will be announced shortly.)
The company, which presents both “the classics that shaped our history and the new works that are continuing to form, examine and reshape our culture,” was founded in 2006. The Laramie Project--their final production at Fullerton’s Hunger Artists Theatre—will run April 24 through May 24.
“Artistically, Theatre Out has tried to bring LGBT theatre to a broader audience,” says Managing Director David C. Carnevale. “We have found our audience-base has grown and is quite diverse. We are hoping that in addition to providing a permanent home for Theatre Out, the Empire will be able to foster other at-large theatre companies; we’re in the process of working with a few individuals to bring outside productions in.”
“Having survived for the past 10 shows renting on a production-to-production basis, we know how difficult it can be to establish yourself as a serious theatre company without a home,” observes Carnevale. “Hunger Artists, along with the Maverick Theater and STAGEStheatre, have provided the critical support we needed to grow as a company and we offer them our sincerest thanks.”
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