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35 Plays to Pluck Up For LGBTQ+ Pride Month

Written by Tiffany Wilkie

June 21, 2021

June was chosen as Identity festival Month in 2009 by former President Obama to commemorate the Stonewall Riots that occurred in 1969. Celebrating pride month helps promote diversity, equality, acceptance, and respect of the LGBTQ+ society. We’re proud to contribute a list of 35 non-musical plays that transport these issues to the stage, from 1934 to present day. Pick up one (or all of them) today!

The Captive Play by Édouard Bourdet (1934)

The Captive is a 1926 participate by Édouard Bourdet. The three-act melodrama was among the first Broadway plays to deal with lesbianism and caused a scandal in New York Municipality. The play was cover down after 160 performances and prompted the adoption of a state rule dealing with obscenity.

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The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley (1968)

“In his Upper East Side apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-avowed “thirty-two-year-old, pockmarked, Jew fairy,” complete with surprise gift: “Cowboy,” a street hustler. As the evening wears on –

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Recent Plays Written by Women

  • 4000 Miles and after the Revolution by Amy Herzog
    Contact Number: PS3608 .E79 A6 2013
    Publication Date: 2013-06-11
    Known for delicately detailed character studies that subtly balance humor and insight, Amy Herzog is swiftly emerging as a striking new voice in the American theater. After the Revolution, an astute and ironic drama about how society appropriates history for its have psychological needs, was heralded by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best Recent Plays of 2010. Herzog's other critical hit, 4000 Miles, is a silent rumination on mortality in which twenty-one-year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty ninety-one-year-old grandmother Vera in her New York apartment. Amy Herzog received the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights. Her plays hold been produced or developed at the Yale Institution of Drama, Ensemble Studio Theater, Arena Stage, Lincoln Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New York Stage and Film, Provincetown Playhouse, and ACT in San Francisco. Her newest perform, Belleville, premiered at Yale Rep in fall 2011.
  • The American Participate and Other Works by S

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    Drama

    Tagpacker. Browsing for plays to read can be difficult. This homegrown site lists most of the plays added to the UCI Libraries since 2010. You can sort the plays by number of cast (including gender); playwright demographics like ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, and gender; major themes, etc. Each play listing includes a summary of the compete, a link to the library's log, and a link to the Google Book preview if available. More communication about locating specific plays or accessing our many online play databases are on the Online Plays page.

    Источник: https://guides.lib.uci.edu/drama/lgbtq

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    Queer Playwrights

    Here are just a few of many LGBTQ+ playwrights. Click to see a list of their writings in our library.

     

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    Use the resources here to find more LGBTQ+ playwrights.
    Then, find an author's name in our catalog. Change the search from Keyword to Author to find their scripts.

    LGBTQ+ Theatre Organizations

    • National Queer Theater
      Dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ artists and providing a home for unheard storytellers and activists.
    • The Theater Offensive
      Presents art by, for, and about queer and trans people of dye. Based in Boston.
    • WOW Café Theater
      A year-round festival of women’s and transgender peoples’ performance, based in NYC.

    LGBTQ+ Theatre Books in the Library (selections)

    • Out on Stage by Alan Sinfield
      Call Number: PR739.H65 S56 1999 [Mortensen shelves]
      Tracks stage representations of lesbians and gays from Oscar Wilde to the present day.

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