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Past Shows


Pride Films and Plays Tennessee Williams...

Fully Committed
10/8 - 10/9/2020


You think you're having a bad day? Meet Sam. He works the red-hot reservation line at one of New York's trendiest restaurants, where the best ...

UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS AND THE TRUE NATURE OF LOVE


Shocking when it first premiered in 1989, this Canadian work follows the lives of several sexually frustrated "thirty-somethings" and one teenager who try to learn ...

Last Sunday in June


In 2002, Tolins penned THE LAST SUNDAY IN JUNE. the day of the annual Gay Pride Parade. Tom and Michael, his partner of seven years, ...

Buyer & Cellar


In this one-man comedy, Alex More is a struggling actor who takes a job managing a make-believe shopping mall in the basement of Barbra Streisands ...

Nominee Night


Showcase of musical theater performers and productions nominated in the 2020 Non-Equity Jeff Awards.....

A Late Snow


A LATE SNOW, written in 1979, is the story of Ellie, a woman trapped in a snowstorm with her first, last, current and, possibly, next ...

Lonely Planet


In this often-comedic drama set during the height of the AIDS crisis, Jody is in his forties and runs a map store. Not one for ...

Mothers and Sons


Live virtual reading of Terrence McNally's play. 7 pm on Thursday, April 16.Login instructions and password will be provided after purchase.A woman pays an unexpected ...

Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist


The American premiere of FIVE ENCOUNTERS ON A SITE CALLED CRAIGSLIST, an Edinburgh Festival hit by the British playwright and actor Samuel Ward. Desperately hilarious ...

Stop Kiss
Stop Kiss
1/15 - 2/9/2020


Sara and Callie are walking through New York City's West Village very late at night, when they share their first kiss. This leads to a ...

America's Best Outcast Toy
America's Best Outcast Toy
11/29 - 1/12/2020


A holiday reality show musical. We all know the story of the outcast toys and how they were rescued from their island by a certain ...

The Christmas Foundling
The Christmas Foundling
12/5 - 1/5/2020


When a baby boy is orphaned in the California Sierras on Christmas Eve, 1850, two curmudgeonly miners agree to raise him. A decade later, the ...

Songs from My Holiday Closet


Bookwriter/lyricist Larry Todd Cousineau, whose musicals written with composer Cindy OConnor include the upcoming AMERICAS BEST OUTCAST TOY, this past summers ALL THAT HE WAS, ...

A Man of No Importance
A Man of No Importance
10/10 - 11/17/2019


A musical adaptation by the Tony Award-winning writers of RAGTIME and ANASTASIA of the 1994 film that starred Albert Finney. Alfie Byrne is a bus ...

Movie Queens
Movie Queens
11/13 - 11/14/2019


Former Hollywood starlets and secret lovers reunite 50 years after the height of their career to make their Broadway debut. Sharing the stage with their ...

SAPPHIC SWITCHEROO


A night of scenes from classical comedies performed by all-female casts. Scenes will be taken from AS YOU LIKE IT, LYSISTRATA, SIR PATIENT FANCY, THE ...

THE QUEENS FOOL: A QUEER FAIRYTALE


When the Queen, unable to fall asleep, sends for a fool to amuse her she is given more then she bargains for. A surprisingly heartfelt ...

Simply Sensarional


Pride Films and Plays' annual fall benefit, SIMPLY SENSATIONAL, celebrates theater artists who have had a tremendous impact on all they work with. This years ...

Lethal Woman
Lethal Woman
10/29


A robbery at the art museum prompts venerated cop Taz to take on The Case of the Missing Cream Pitcher! Hijinks and a fair number ...

LezFest
LezFest
10/22 - 10/23/2019


LEZFEST, the popular and ever-evolving interdisciplinary program of performance by queer female and non-binary artists. Performances will cover an eclectic range of disciplines ranging from ...

Casa Valentina
Casa Valentina
8/22 - 9/29/2019


CASA VALENTINA is set in 1962, in an inconspicuous bungalow colony in New Yorks Catskill Mountains that caters to a very special clientele: cis-gender straight ...

All That He Was
All That He Was
8/10 - 9/8/2019


The musical ALL THAT HE WAS is a moving and surprisingly funny account of one mans struggle with AIDS and the reverberations of his death. ...

Casa Valentina
7/10 - 8/11/2019


Harvey Fierstein Pride Films and Plays...

Afterglow
Afterglow
3/27 - 7/28/2019


Josh and Alex are a gay male married couple in an open relationship. The two invite another man, Darius, to share their bed one night. ...

GRINDR The Opera
GRINDR The Opera
6/23 - 7/28/2019


GRINDR The Opera puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop, ...

Desire in a Tinier House
Desire in a Tinier House
5/30 - 6/29/2019


It only takes three seconds for Trevin and Carlos to lock eyes. But how many minutes, months, millennia will it take for them to remain ...

Southern Comfort
Southern Comfort
2/28 - 3/31/2019


In this heartwarming musical with a lush folk/bluegrass score, Robert, a transgender man living in rural Georgia among his chosen family of mostly transgender friends, ...

I Know My Own Heart
I Know My Own Heart
1/10 - 2/10/2019


Inspired by the secret coded diaries of Yorkshire gentlewoman Anne Lister, this play subverts all the conventions of Regency romance. Teasing out the entangled lives ...

Barney the Elf
Barney the Elf
12/14 - 1/6/2019


Chicago drag queen sensation Dixie Lynn Cartwright again takes the lead for this cheeky musical twist on the modern holiday fave about "embracing your inner ...

LezFest
LezFest
12/16


The popular and ever-evolving interdisciplinary program of performance by queer female and non-binary artists, will return for its eighth session on Sunday, December 16. Previously ...

It's Only a Play
It's Only a Play
10/11 - 11/11/2018


An hilarious send-up of show business and its often-bizarre practitioners, which uses the occasion of a disastrous opening night party to pile one wildly funny ...

Mothers and Sons


A woman pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, who is now married to another man and has ...

Dedication, or The Stuff of Dreams


Staged reading of the Terrence McNally play. A couple run a children's theatre in a mall in upstate New York. With the possibility of taking ...

Homos, or Everyone in America


“Love is love” – but is navigating it any less complicated today? What does it mean to be in a committed relationship? Is monogamy just ...

It's Been a F*cking Year


Life is a rollercoaster of emotions, a whirlwind of events. Who would have thought that the last 365 days could hold so much? First love, ...

The Green Bay Tree
The Green Bay Tree
6/11 - 7/8/2018


A charming young man is forced to choose between the love of his fiancée, the lifestyle of his male mentor, and the prescription of his ...

Resolution
Resolution
10/21 - 11/20/2016


New Years' Eve, New York City, 1892. High-society husband and wife Jack and Hannah make their resolutions for the coming year -- but when their ...

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 Riverdance 30 – The New Generation in Chicago Riverdance 30 – The New Generation
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