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Queer Artist Kelly Bartnik Blurs the Line Between Performer and Person in HERE

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Feb 22, 2017
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Jump Into Devised Theater: An Interview with Maggie-Keenan Bolger and Rachel Sullivan

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Oct 21, 2015
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Choose Your Own Dreamscape Adventure at “Sleep No More,” an Immersive Theater Production

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Nov 3, 2014
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So You Wanna Write the Divine: Black LGBTQ Artists Talk Spiritual Practices of Community Building

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Apr 14, 2014
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Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: “Not Just Another Coming Out Story”

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Aug 1, 2013
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Queering Theatre: Heartache

JuliaOA

Apr 17, 2013
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Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: The Personal Is Political Is Art

JuliaOA

Feb 13, 2013
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Maggie Keenan-Bolger On Being A Queer Lady In Musical Theater

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Jan 17, 2013
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“June and Nancy” Reminds Us What It Was Like to Be An American Lesbian in 1958

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Aug 28, 2012

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Queer Artist Kelly Bartnik Blurs the Line Between Performer and Person in HERE

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Queer Artist Kelly Bartnik Blurs the Line Between Performer and Person in HERE

Queer triple threat performer, director, and visionary Kelly Bartnik is mixing the episodic TV show format with live immersive theater performance and you can see it this weekend!

KaeLyn —

Feb 22, 2017

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Jump Into Devised Theater: An Interview with Maggie-Keenan Bolger and Rachel Sullivan

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Jump Into Devised Theater: An Interview with Maggie-Keenan Bolger and Rachel Sullivan

“Cast members in a devised show are able to create and develop honest depictions of characters who hold the same identities as the actors. These representations are far more complex,…

A.E. Osworth —

Oct 21, 2015

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Choose Your Own Dreamscape Adventure at “Sleep No More,” an Immersive Theater Production

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Choose Your Own Dreamscape Adventure at “Sleep No More,” an Immersive Theater Production

Sleep No More is a Lynchian lost world, a timewarp, and walking out of it, you feel like you might have just emerged from a fugue state.

KaeLyn —

Nov 3, 2014

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So You Wanna Write the Divine: Black LGBTQ Artists Talk Spiritual Practices of Community Building

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So You Wanna Write the Divine: Black LGBTQ Artists Talk Spiritual Practices of Community Building

During Brown University’s “Black Lavender Experience” festival, Black LGBTQ artists talked about the divine nature of their writing for marginalized communities.

Helen —

Apr 14, 2014

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Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: “Not Just Another Coming Out Story”

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Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: “Not Just Another Coming Out Story”

Not Just Another Coming Out Story illustrates the lifelong process of coming out and the struggles that don’t magically disappear after the first time you come out as an LGBT…

JuliaOA —

Aug 1, 2013

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Queering Theatre: Heartache

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Queering Theatre: Heartache

“That summer, I learned a lot about separating myself from my work. There is no room on the stage for a performer’s personal problems. There are, however, cathartic elements that…

JuliaOA —

Apr 17, 2013

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Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: The Personal Is Political Is Art

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Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: The Personal Is Political Is Art

“Theatre taught me that it was fine to be different; I wish it had shown me it was fine to be a queer woman, as well.”

JuliaOA —

Feb 13, 2013

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Maggie Keenan-Bolger On Being A Queer Lady In Musical Theater

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Maggie Keenan-Bolger On Being A Queer Lady In Musical Theater

There is a certain level of ostracism that happens when you realize you are different from most of your peers, and not that that can’t be played at by straight…

JuliaOA —

Jan 17, 2013

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“June and Nancy” Reminds Us What It Was Like to Be An American Lesbian in 1958

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“June and Nancy” Reminds Us What It Was Like to Be An American Lesbian in 1958

“The stageplay is the lesbian equivalent of a Mad Men affair, but with less misogyny and so much more at stake.”

fonseca —

Aug 28, 2012