Nathan Nonhof, James Ferrero, Emma Zakes Green, Betsy Moore, Megan Rippey, Ashley Steed Photo

From: Photo Flash: First Look at New Musical THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO SPACE AS A MAN

The Woman Who Went to Space as a Man - Part fact, part fever dream, and part musical, this captivating new work opens with Alice B. Sheldon - better known to sci-fi aficionados as author James Tiptree, Jr. - contemplating suicide. Dodging in and out of reality, the play, with a bold musical score, investigates gender, longing and creativity as self-exploration through one of the Science Fiction world's greatest literary tricksters. Sheldon was most notable for breaking down the barriers between writing perceived as inherently 'male' or 'female' and it was not publicly known until 1977 that Tiptree was, in fact, a woman.