Shows of pride.Chicago's theater community is ready for Pride. Not only is About Face mounting Raising Voices in June [see main story], but Bailiwick BAILIWICK. The district over which a sheriff has jurisdiction; it signifies also the same as county, the sheriff's bailiwick extending over the county. 2. Repertory will stage performaces ranging from lesbian opera to topical one-man shows in the course of its Pride Series 2000. "I wanted it to be a little bigger it usually is," artistic director David Zak says modestly of the Pride Series's 12th year. It certainly is that. The summer-long series of gay-themed theater includes 15 different shows addressing a plethora of topics. Zak gives most of the credit for this year's diversity to the company's new Lesbian Theater Initiative, a project to focus attention on lesbian plays, writers, and directors. A long-awaited local appearance by performance artist Holly Hughes Holly Hughes is a Republican National Committee member from the U.S. State of Michigan. She has been involved in grassroots politics since 1989. She has worked on numerous campaigns from envelope stuffer to campaign manager. (July 6-9), Gina Schien's play Relative Comfort (running June 10-July 2), Five Lesbian Brothers's latest spoof See spoofing. spoof - spoofing (July 6-30) and last year's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of hit opera Patience and Sarah Patience and Sarah is a 1969 historical fiction lesbian novel by Alma Routsong, using the pen name Isabel Miller. It was originally self-published under the title A Place For Us and eventually found a publisher as Patience and Sarah in 1971. (August 3-20) are among the series' lesbian-friendly offerings. Pride 2000 opened with the currently running Naked Will (through July 2), which depicts Oscar Wilde ruminating on the affectional preferences of William Shakespeare. On its heels comes Chicago's own A Real Read, the only African-American lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered transgendered adjective Relating to a person who has undergone genital/sexual reassignment surgery Transgender health issues Hormonal therapy, cosmetic surgery, fertility options–eg, egg and sperm banking. See Sexual reassignment. Cf Transsexual. group in the nation (July 13-16). And for those who like a little sex with their politics, there's Bare (May 23-July 2), an exploration of the bare-backing phenomenon, and the long-running Party (August 25-September 24), which famously ends with the whole cast naked. For theatergoers, Chicago's summer should be the hottest on record. |
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