Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater
Cast Out is a collection of memoirs and interviews by twenty-two leading performers, playwrights, technicians, producers, critics, educators, and passionate spectators.\ \ Cast Out also offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most important and influential theater artists of the past fifty years: Edward Albee discusses the homophobic critical attacks he endured in the 50s and 60s; Cherry Jones talks about the first time she accepted a Tony Award-and her...
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Cast Out is a collection of memoirs and interviews by twenty-two leading performers, playwrights, technicians, producers, critics, educators, and passionate spectators.Cast Out also offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most important and influential theater artists of the past fifty years: Edward Albee discusses the homophobic critical attacks he endured in the 50s and 60s; Cherry Jones talks about the first time she accepted a Tony Award-and her decision, in that moment, to come out; Peggy Shaw speaks of the drag queen who first inspired her stage career; Craig Lucas issues an impassioned call for theater practitioners and other artists to unite for the sake of art, creativity, and social change. Also included are memoirs by and interviews with Kate Bornstein, Lisa Kron, Tim Miller, and George C. Wolfe, among others. These diverse voices dispel the cliché of theater as a "safe haven" and replace the stereotype with a nuanced group portrait of the ways in which theater and queerness intersect.
How I learned theater25The lair of light30Exposures of a multispirited, Haitian-American, gender-harmonizing WoMan44A straight line51An interview by Andrew Velez56The divine Mr. K. : reclaiming my "unruly" past with Bette Midler and the baths60And Frida looks back : the art of Latina/o queer heroics79The battle of Chattanooga91Queer theater, musicals to masturbation : a conversation with too tall blondes103The language of disregard112Queer players : strategic theater in San Diego118Professional spectatorship's queer stages124There's a place for us ... somewhere140The stages of East Texas150Paradise won and lost : a life in gay theatre171A playwright who happens to be gay : an interview by Robin Bernstein185Huevos de Oro : on passion and privilege191From elks to Aliyah195Heaven and home205Cherry on top : an interview by Andrew Velez210Making a fresh start215
