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LGBTQIA+ Plays
A wide-ranging collection of plays where love wins. | Image: The Boys in the Band (Joan Marcus)
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Breeding
Barry McStay
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 2mBreeding
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 2m
Zeb and Eoin have met, kissed, fallen in love, moved in, got married… What’s next? Together they navigate the exposing road to adoption, forced to lay bare fears and secrets, all in the hope of being deemed ‘appropriate’ parents.
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Cowbois
Charlie Josephine
Full-Length Play, DramaCowbois
Full-Length Play, Drama
In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the gold rush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. In fact, the town is almost cut off from outsiders entirely, with only one drunken sheriff for protection.
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Faun
Vinnie Heaven
Full-Length Play, Drama 3any gender (adult)Faun
Vinnie Heaven
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3any gender (adult)
Ace is 22, trans, queer and sofa surfing – currently – just for now – only at the moment. They’ve actually just sorted out sofa number 13. To keep a sofa requires you to act small, smiling, and polite. But no one is perfect and eventually everyone messes up – which would be a lot easier for Ace if they weren’t also unexpectedly growing extra ears, and a tiny tail! It turns out people pleasing has a price, and there’s only one place left for Ace to go…
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Maggie & Me
James Ley, Damian Barr
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3w, 4mMaggie & Me
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 4m
“Don’t you worry. I’ll always love you. Love doesn’t run out. It’s not like the gas meter. I’ll find extra love.”
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No I.D.
Tatenda Shamiso
Full-Length Play, Drama 1gnc (adult)No I.D.
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1gnc (adult)
With laughter, music and a healthy dose of care, No I.D. is a love letter to gender transitions and an examination of how absurd our bureaucratic systems can be.
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A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood, Simon Reade
Full-Length Play, Drama 2w, 3mA Single Man
Christopher Isherwood , Simon Reade
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 3m
California, 1962. College professor George is grieving the death of his long-term partner Jim. As a middle-aged gay Englishman living in the Los Angeles suburbs, he is an outsider in every way. Haunted by his past and unable to move forward, we follow him on one very ordinary day. But for George, this is going to be a day like no other…
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Celebrated Virgins
Katie Elin-Salt, Eleri B. Jones
Full-Length Play, Drama 3w, 1mCelebrated Virgins
Katie Elin-Salt , Eleri B. Jones
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 1m
In late 18th-century Ireland, Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby found love and left everything to begin a new life together in Llangollen, Wales. This powerful and touching new play celebrates their defiance, courage and loving 50-year partnership.
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I, Joan
Charlie Josephine
Full-Length Play, Drama 4w, 6m, 1any gender (adult)I, Joan
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 6m, 1any gender (adult)
A powerful and joyous new play, this retelling of Joan of Arc's story is alive and queer and full of hope.
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This Bitter Earth
Harrison David Rivers
Full-Length Play, Drama 2mThis Bitter Earth
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2m
Intimate, romantic and devastating, this gripping new play about a young black writer and his white lover, a Black Lives Matter activist, asks, "What is the real cost of standing on the sidelines?"
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Monologues for 'Others'
Charlie Josephine
Monologues 1any gender (adult)Monologues for 'Others'
Monologues / 1any gender (adult)
This book is for the 'others'. For anyone who's ever felt othered. For us lot. Who deserve celebration and opportunity. Each one is written with love, with the actor in mind. I hope they make your body feel fizzy, I hope they get you all the jobs, I hope your flowers bloom.
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Torch Song (2018)
Harvey Fierstein
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 2w, 4mTorch Song (2018)
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 4m
Torch Song is a new two act adaptation of the 1983 Tony® Award-winning play.
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Bull in a China Shop
Bryna Turner
Full-Length Play, Drama 5wBull in a China Shop
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w
CRITICS PICK! “A pugnacious, tender and gloriously funny new play. Bryna Turner makes an immensely auspicious professional playwriting debut...Bull in a China Shop is passionate, joyous and radiant with life!” - The New York Times
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The Boys in the Band (2018 Revised Version)
Mart Crowley
Full-Length Play, Drama 9mThe Boys in the Band (2018 Revised Version)
Full-Length Play, Drama / 9m
In 2018, The Boys in the Band made its Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre in an unprecedented production featuring a cast of entirely out-and-proud gay actors.
This is the 2018 revised version, used for the play's Broadway premiere. The original version of The Boys in the Band is also available for licensing.
“Its reappearance now is a triumph of liberation.” – Jesse Green, The New York Times -
Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them
A. Rey Pamatmat
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 1w, 2mEdith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 2m
Three kids – Kenny, his sister Edith, and their friend Benji – are all but abandoned on a farm in remotest Middle America. With little adult supervision, they feed and care for each other, making up the rules as they go.
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Mala Hierba
Tanya Saracho
Full-Length Play, Drama 4wMala Hierba
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w
"Mala Hierba is never less than absorbing. The dialogue zings at full speed, and the characters have an electric energy." - New York Post
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The Rolling Stone
Chris Urch
Full-Length Play, Drama 3w, 3mThe Rolling Stone
Chris Urch
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 3m
An intimate yet explosive family drama about two brothers at odds – one a gay man in a clandestine relationship, and the other a church pastor who fervently rails against the lifestyle his brother is forced to conceal.
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Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women
Paul Lucas
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 7any gender (adult)Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women
Paul Lucas
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 7any gender (adult)
Paul Lucas’s Trans Scripts is an original stage play based on material assembled from more than 75 interviews conducted with people from around the world who identify as transgender. Its characters range in age, ethnicity, socio-economic status, educational level, and age at transition.
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Colossal
Andrew Hinderaker
Full-Length Play, Drama 15mColossal
Full-Length Play, Drama / 15m
"[Colossalis] a play finding through the laws of physics a thrilling way to tell a story of exquisite pain." - The Washington Post
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The Pass
John Donnelly
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 3mThe Pass
John Donnelly
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 3m
In a high-end hotel room, rising football stars Jason and Ade are living the dream. Goals, girls and glory. Tomorrow they make their first-team debut. But the game starts before you've even walked out the tunnel.
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Airswimming
Charlotte Jones
Full-Length Play, Drama 2wAirswimming
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w
“I’ve been here since 1922. Yes, stationed here July 4th – American Independence Day – funny that. The irony is not lost on me, believe you me. I shall be your superior officer for a while, but don’t worry, I’m not one to pull rank. We do this polishing duty for one hour each day. The rest of the time we shuffle and look crazed. They prefer it that way”
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The Amber Trap
Tabitha Mortiboy
Full-Length Play, Drama 3w, 1m -
Homos, or Everyone in America
Jordan Seavey
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 3mHomos, or Everyone in America
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 3m
“A daringly frank, funny and affecting new play [...] Mr. Seavey’s portrait of young gay New Yorkers negotiating the sometimes thorny nature of love and intimacy has an arresting, even bruising honesty.” - The New York Times
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The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 8mThe Normal Heart
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 8m
Set in New York in the early 1980s, Larry Kramer's powerful, passionate and controversial play was the first to treat seriously the poignant and devastasting subject of AIDS.
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Bootycandy
Robert O'Hara
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire 2w, 3mBootycandy
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire / 2w, 3m
Robert O'Hara's semi-autobiographical subversive comedy weaves together scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics to create a kaleidoscopic portrayal of growing up gay and black.
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Loveplay
Moira Buffini
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3w, 3mLoveplay
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 3m
Moira Buffini romps through the centuries from the Romans to the present day, charting the changing fortunes of place, time and people at 29 Trick Street. Buffini brings her usual lightness of touch to this incisive, funny and sharply observed play about changing social, economic and sexual mores.
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A Great Wilderness
Samuel D. Hunter
Full-Length Play, Drama 3w, 3mA Great Wilderness
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 3m
Walt has devoted his life to “curing” teenage boys of their homosexuality at his remote Idaho wilderness camp. Pressured to accept one last client, his life begins to unravel.
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And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens
Tennessee Williams
Short Play, Drama 4mAnd Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens
Short Play, Drama / 4m
Part of the collection Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays
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Beyond Therapy
Christopher Durang
Full-Length Play, Comedy 2w, 4mBeyond Therapy
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 4m
Chirstopher Durang's delightful off-Broadway hit, which moved successfully to Broadway, concerns Bruce and Prudence, two modern, neurotic urbanites searching for love and sanity – with the questionable help of their offbeat therapists.
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Charles Busch's Cleopatra
Charles Busch
Full-Length Play, Comedy 3w, 5mCharles Busch's Cleopatra
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 5m
The turbulent life of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, is told, viewed through the outrageous comic lens of master parodist Charles Busch.
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Devil Boys from Beyond
Buddy Thomas, Kenneth Elliott
Full-Length Play, Comedy 4w, 4mDevil Boys from Beyond
Buddy Thomas , Kenneth Elliott
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 4m
Flying Saucers! Backstabbing Bitches! Muscle Hunks and Men in Pumps! Wake up and smell the alien invasion in this outrageous comedy by the author of the smash off-Broadway hit play, The Crumple Zone.
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Dr. Ride's American Beach House
Liza Birkenmeier
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 4wDr. Ride's American Beach House
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w
An intimate snapshot of queer anti-heroines. On the eve of Dr. Sally Ride’s historic space flight, four women with passionate opinions and no opportunities sit on a sweltering St. Louis rooftop, watching life pass them by.
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House Rules
A. Rey Pamatmat
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3w, 4mHouse Rules
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 4m
“The playwright presents the characters in crisp three dimensions... well done.” – Huffington Post
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Hurricane Diane
Madeleine George
Full-Length Play, Comedy 4w, 1gnc (adult)Hurricane Diane
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 1gnc (adult)
Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.
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MMF
David L. Kimple
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 1w, 2mMMF
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 2m
MMF explores the realities of love, need, want and people who don't know the difference.
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My Big Gay Italian Wedding
Anthony Wilkinson
Full-Length Play, Comedy 5w, 8mMy Big Gay Italian Wedding
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 8m
"Feel-good hysterical comedy!" –The Wall Street Journal
" An insanely funny and fun confection. The mixture of the sacred and profane, the ultra-serious and ultra-silly makes this the perfect play." –Edge New York -
Nice Fish
Mark Rylance, Louis Jenkins
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 4mNice Fish
Mark Rylance ,Louis Jenkins
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 4m
On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It’s the end of the fishing season, and two old friends are out on the ice, angling for something big; something down there that is pure need.
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Perfect Arrangement
Topher Payne
Full-Length Play, Comedy 4w, 3mPerfect Arrangement
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 3m
Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the gay rights movement, Perfect Arrangement merges madcap sitcom-style laughs with provocative drama as two closeted U.S. State Department employees struggle to maintain their cover – and their sanity – in 1950s America.
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Plot Points In Our Sexual Development
Miranda Rose Hall
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 1gnc (adult)Plot Points In Our Sexual Development
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1gnc (adult)
Theo and Cecily want to be honest about their sexual histories, but what happens when telling the truth jeopardizes everything? A contemporary queer love story, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development explores gender, intimacy, and the dangers of revealing yourself to the person you love.
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Pocatello
Samuel D. Hunter
Full-Length Play, Drama 5w, 5mPocatello
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m
Eddie manages an Italian chain restaurant in Pocatello – a small, unexceptional American city that is slowly being paved over with strip malls and franchises. But he can’t serve enough soup, salad & breadstick specials to make his hometown feel like home.
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She Kills Monsters
Qui Nguyen
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 6w, 3mShe Kills Monsters
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6w, 3m
A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games! In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres and 90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
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Sundown, Yellow Moon
Rachel Bonds, The Bengsons
Full-Length Play, Drama 3w, 4mSundown, Yellow Moon
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 4m
In this critically acclaimed play with music, twin sisters Ray and Joey return to their southern hometown to help their recently divorced father. In facing their personal and familial conflicts, the three family members seek redemption and attempt to move on.
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The Earth is Flat
Todd Almond
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3w, 4mThe Earth is Flat
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 4m
THE EARTH IS FLAT explores the universal awkwardness of the American college experience.
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The Gulf (Full-Length)
Audrey Cefaly
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 2wThe Gulf (Full-Length)
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w
“As funny as it is powerful, as tender as it is passionate, The Gulf reveals a pair of volatile lovers whose relationship is as sharp as a fishing knife - pointed and dangerous.” – Broadway World
Full-length version of the 40th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival winner.
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The Harvest
Samuel D. Hunter
Full-Length Play, Drama 3w, 4mThe Harvest
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 4m
Samuel D. Hunter's “engrossing and suspenseful” play (Time Out New York) explores issues of faith, family and sexuality as two young Mormons in southeastern Idaho cope with the recent death of their father.
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
John O'Connor, Merlin Holland
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 17mThe Trials of Oscar Wilde
John O'Connor , Merlin Holland
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 17m
This play can be performed in its entirety or each act can be performed as a stand-alone piece.
‘I delight in the society of people much younger than myself. I like those who may be called idle and careless. I recognise no social distinctions at all of any kind and to me youth – the mere fact of youth – is so wonderful that I would sooner talk to a young man half an hour than even be, well, cross-examined in court.’ -
The Tribute Artist
Charles Busch
Full-Length Play, Comedy 4w, 2mThe Tribute Artist
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 2m
In Charles Busch's hilarious off-Broadway hit, an out-of-work female impersonator assumes the identity of his recently deceased landlady in order to keep her valuable Greenwich Village townhouse.
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This Much (or An Act of Violence Towards the Institution of Marri...
John Fitzpatrick
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3mThis Much (or An Act of Violence Towards the Institution of Marria...
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3m
“I feel like I leapt off a long time ago and everyone else is gaining traction and I’m just floating away.”
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46 Beacon
Bill Rosenfield
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 2m46 Beacon
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2m
“You don’t need to be at the cool table in the cafeteria, because you are the cool table, you just don’t know it yet.”
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Alabaster
Audrey Cefaly
Full-Length Play, Drama 4wAlabaster
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w
A darkly comic southern drama about love, art and the power of women.
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Angry Fags
Topher Payne
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy 4w, 3mAngry Fags
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 4w, 3m
“Payne gives us two likeable killer queens whose road to domestic terrorism is paved with Paula Deen jokes […] Witty, dark, and disconcerting.” - Out Magazine
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Die Mommie Die!
Charles Busch
Full-Length Play, Comedy 3w, 3mDie Mommie Die!
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 3m
Newly revised! This hilarious comic melodrama evokes the 1960s “Grande Dame Guignol” movie thrillers that featured such aging cinematic icons as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner and Susan Hayward.
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Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly
Multiple Authors
Musical Revue / Cabaret, Comedy 5mHoward Crabtree's When Pigs Fly
Howard Crabtree , Mark Waldrop ,Dick Gallagher
Musical Revue / Cabaret, Comedy / 5m
In this side-splitting musical extravaganza by the creators of Howard Crabtree’s Whoop Dee Doo!, new heights of hilarity are achieved in a series of outrageous skits celebrating gay life and creating an opportunity for uproarious, over-the-top costumes.
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Outings
Matthew Baldwin, Thomas Hescott
Monologues 1mOutings
Matthew Baldwin , Thomas Hescott
Monologues / 1m
The world’s first show based on coming-out stories.
Published with "The Act."
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Precious Little
Madeleine George
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy 3wPrecious Little
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 3w
Brodie, a gifted linguist, learns unsettling news about the baby she carries. Unable to get comfort from her girlfriend, she finds it in the two least likely sources imaginable: the elderly speaker of a vanishing language… and a gorilla at the zoo.
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The Cake
Bekah Brunstetter
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3w, 1mThe Cake
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 1m
In Bekah Brunstetter's touching and topical dramatic comedy, a vivacious, conservative North Carolina baker named Della faces a crisis of conscience when Jen - whom she loves like a daughter - asks her to bake a cake for Jen's lesbian wedding.
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The Well and Badly Loved
Ben Webb
Full-Length Play, Drama 3mThe Well and Badly Loved
Ben Webb
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3m
These three short plays, created to be performed together, tell the story of a gay love affair from three different angles. They explore love's power and its difficulty, and how love can destabilize one's identity. They are a passionate response to t…
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Time and Tide
James McDermott
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 3mTime and Tide
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 3m
Time and Tide is an LGBTQ-themed comedy drama about a Norfolk community struggling with change.
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Torch Song Trilogy (1982)
Harvey Fierstein
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 2w, 4mTorch Song Trilogy (1982)
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 4m
Winner! 1983 Tony® Award for Best Play
"A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family [...] the zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for." - Newsweek