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Studio 54 Theatre
Distance: 0.4 Mi254 W 54th Street
10019 New York
Description
Playwright JOHN GLINES won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards in 1983 as producer of Torch Song Trilogy , won the Drama Desk Award and a Tony nomination in 1985 as producer of As Is , and won the Drama Desk Award in 1994 for Whoop-Dee-Doo! When accepting his Tony for Torch Song , he was the first person ever to acknowledge his same-sex lover on a major awards show. As artistic director and co-founder of The Glines, the country's oldest producer of gay theatre, he has been a major force in the acceptance of the gay experience as valid material of creative expression.
I return to the stage after a thirteen year hiatus in order to "realize an ambition I had cherished for more than a decade," to quote the illustrious Mr. Poe himself. For more than 25 years I have performed the "Tell Tale Heart" in many venues and under various theatrical styles: It began as a story telling project, morphed into a performance piece and was even presented as a dance. My love for the works of one of the greatest American writers, indeed, the creator of modern detective fiction and science fiction, has come full circle in this theatrical iteration.