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Stage Top 5: May 2023

by Brian Hieggelke | April 28, 2023

by Brian Hieggelke
April 28, 2023May 14, 2023Filed under:
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Will Wilhelm, star of “Gender Play, or what you Will”

1
Gender Play, or what you Will

(About Face Theatre)
A trans actor summons Shakespeare in a seance and they reclaim the Bard’s works in “their original homoerotic, cross-dressing, gender-fluid glory” in a world premiere by Will Wilhelm and Erin Murray.
Starts May 4

2
Hatefuck

(First Floor Theater)
A professor accuses a novelist of Islamophobia; romance ensues.
Starts May 5

3
Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
(Porchlight Music Theatre)
A romantic comedy in which the famous explorer connects with a contemporary single mom across space and time.
Starts May 6

4
Bowie in Warsaw
(Trap Door Theatre)
Guest director from Poland Pawel Swiatek helms Dorota Maslowska’s “absurd comedy about freedom of self-expression in Soviet-era Poland.”
Starts May 18

5
Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon
(Lookingglass Theatre)
Matthew C. Yee’s world-premiere musical romp about “First Generation Asian American Renegades. In love. And on the run.”
Starts May 24

Tagged:
  • About Face Theatre
  • First Floor Theater
  • Lookingglass Theatre
  • Porchlight Music Theatre
  • Trap Door Theatre

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