Freddy and Amy
For the third consecutive year, Uptown Players will put on a bonus series of plays to coincide with Dallas Gay Pride Week, including some returning favorites and several acclaimed off-Broadway shows.
Returning to the mainstage of the Kalita Humphreys Theater for the third annual Pride Performing Arts Festival will be Amy Armstrong and Freddy Allen, pictured above, two popular cabaret performers who were a draw at the first Pride Fest in 2011. They’ll open the series on Sept 5. The remaining shows will be performed at the upstairs Frank’s Place space. They are:
• Made in Heaven by Jay Bernzweig. This farce is about conjoined twins, linked at the penis, who decide to propose to their girlfriends … until one comes out as gay and wants to start dating a man.
• Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Aguirre-Sacasa is on fire lately, both as a writer/producer on Glee and having re-worked Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark for Broadway. He’ll also have his Dracula Cycle performed by Dallas Theater Center next year, following his Superman rewrite two seasons ago. But Uptown gets his play about the hot-house atmosphere of an all-male boarding school where intrigue, mystery and forbidden romance collide.
The New York production of ‘Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche’
• Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood. A cult smash in New York this season, this comedy is set at the meeting of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein in 1956, when lesbianism was still underground.
• Pageant Play by Matthew Wilkas and Mark Setlock. Our Productions Theater Company presents this hilarious, surreal and terrifying world of child beauty pageants.
• The Time Keepers by Dan Clancy. Theatre New West presents this show, which played earlier this year at the Dallas Holocaust Museum. Set in a concentration camp in the middle of World War II, it shows the relationship between two outcasts (a Jew and a homosexual) who forge an unlikely friendship in the face of horrors.
• Cock by Mike Bartlett. This staged reading, presented by Second Thought Theatre, is the area premiere of last year’s raciest off-Broadway hit about a man, his boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
Performances run Sept. 5–14. Individual tickets are available for $10–$15, with a festival-wide pass $59. Reserved seating for Amy and Freddy range from $25–$100. Visit UptownPlayers.org for scheduling details and tickets.
