Tara Beagan’s play Jesus Chrysler focuses on the tortured relationship between two women who worked for social justice during the Great Depression – the iconic Canadian poet Dorothy Livesay, and her erstwhile lover, Eugenia Watts, called Jim by her friends. Both would marry men in their future, but Beagan’s play is set around the mid-1930s […]
The Tony Award-winning musical Memphis is based on the life of Dewey Phillips, in the show call Huey Calhoun, who was the first southern white DJ in the 1950s to play black music. The show suffers from a weak book, sloppy ending and director Christopher Ashley’s cliché characterizations. But…making up for the faults is the […]
Hume Baugh’s play Crush was inspired by a 1995 incident on the sensationalist Jenny Jones TV talk show. Three days after taping, a male guest killed a gay man who had openly said he had a crush on him on national television. The killer clearly had homosexual identity issues. Baugh makes a brave stamp at […]
