Come As You Are!
The 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots is rapidly approaching. For this historic anniversary the queer community is gearing up to celebrate the gains our movement has made. We also wish to evaluate our movement's course as we move into the future. The Theater Offensive seeks to achieve just this with some good, queer performance by a select group of artists!
The Theater Offensive is proud to announce Come As You Are: a nationally coordinated series of locally produced performance events from June 2009 through June 2010. Come As You Are intends to recognize and give voice to the great diversity of queer sexualities. Let's not forget how important SEX is in the queer milieu. The role that sex and sexuality have played in the movement for queer liberation cannot be ignored for this historic celebration!
Come As You Are is supported by the Arcus Foundation, National Performance Network, Flynn Performing Arts Center, Camposition and The Theater Offensive.
For more information please visit comeasyouareonline.org or email eve@thetheateroffensive.org
Out on the Edge Festival of Queer Theater
The Theater Offensive presented its first Out on the Edge Festival of Queer Theater in 1992. Held annually in the fall, the Festival is considered to be among the world's premier queer theater series. Among the cutting-edge theater artists that have appeared at the Festival are Quentin Crisp, Tim Miller, The Five Lesbian Brothers, Luis Alfaro, Holly Hughes, Pomo Afro Homos, Alec Mapa, Split Britches, Jackie Hoffman, BLOOLIPS, and Marga Gomez, among many others. The Theater Offensive is also known worldwide for featuring the best artists from under-represented queer communities, so the festival gives audiences a unique opportunity to see performances by artists of color, the differently-abled, and transgendered artists.
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Plays At Work
Our Plays At Work series develops and premieres theatrical work by new regional artists in staged reading and workshop formats.
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True Colors: Out Youth Theater
True Colors: Out Youth Theater provides year-round theater programming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth and their straight allies (LGBTQQA), ages 14 to 22. Dedicated to presenting an honest portrayal of the lives of LGBTQQA youth through group playwriting, production and performance, and theater training intensives.
Learn more about:
- True Colors: Out Youth Theater
- True Colors Summer Company
- True Colors Alumni
- Education Internships & Volunteer Opportunities
- Education Job Postings
A Street Theater Named Desire
A Street Theater Named Desire is The Theater Offensive's guerilla AIDS activist theater troupe. It enters gay cruising grounds and presents environmental interventions that include outrageously sexy performances, installation art and community gathering space.
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Dagger
Dykes with a cutting edge! Dagger is The Theater Offensive's guerilla theater troupe for queer women and girls. (Currently on hiatus)
Plays At Work
Our Plays At Work series develops and premieres theatrical work by regional queer artists through staged reading and workshop formats.
Over the years, we have produced a number of full-scale productions, all of which have come up through our distinctive program of guiding innovative original work through script development, staged readings, and workshop productions. Recent shows that we developed that have received full producitons include Surviving the Nian by Melissa Li & Abe Rybeck, Oedipus at Palm Springs* by The Five Lesbian Brothers, Bel Canto by Daniel Alexander Jones, Last Rites* and Hamartia Blues* by Letta Neely, Motherlands and Immaculate Infection by Brenda Cotto Escalera and Noelia Ortiz Cortes, 5 Bottles in a Six Pack* by Renita Martin, and Oklahoma City by Tom Cole.
We feature free public education workshops with featured artists, community dialogue about the evolving shows, and interaction between artists and patrons. We also host an annual Play Lab.
New England based artists are invited to submit a script for our play development lab. Download submission guidelines (PDF).
* Indicates productions available for touring. Please contact us for information on booking these shows.
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