An influential anthology of queer solo performance scripts from the 1990s edited by lesbian performance artist Holly Hughes and theater critic David Roman, featuring groundbreaking pieces by performers including Holly Hughes’s ‘Clit Notes’ on lesbian sexuality, Peggy Shaw’s exploration of butch identity, Tim Miller on gay male desire, and other artists addressing AIDS, breast cancer, racism, gender, and LGBTQ+ life.
A three-act melodrama about Irène, a lesbian who pretends engagement to Jacques while tortured by her love for the unseen Madame d’Aiguines, ultimately returning to the relationship saying ‘it is a prison to which I must return captive, despite myself.’
The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs | Iman Qureshi | When banks and sandwich shops have more pride than we do, where can we go to be with our tribe?
It’s 2022. There’s a rainbow flag in every high-st
Heroes And Saints And Other Plays: Giving Up The Ghost, Shadow Of A Man, Heroes And Saints | Cherríe L. Moraga | Heroes and Saints and Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherríe Moraga’s premiere collection of theatre. Included are: ‘Shadow of a Man’, winner of th
The Hungry Woman | Cherrie Moraga | In The Hungry Woman, an apocalyptic play written at the end of the millennium, Moraga uses mythology and an intimate realism to describe the embattled
The J Girls | Rochelle Hurt | Jocelyn, Jodie, Jennifer, Jacqui, Joelle. Ignoring the optimistic advice of elders, these five working-class teens in the Rust Belt band together in t
Jen Silverman | The Moors | Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen s
Carolyn Gage | Babe: An Olympian Musical | Big, brassy, full-cast mainstage musical about the greatest woman athlete in history, Babe Didrikson! Babe’s struggle for acceptance. Numbers include
Terry Baum; Carolyn Myers | One Dyke’s Theater | Terry Baum’s Dos Lesbos (1981) inspired the first anthology of lesbian plays in the history of the universe–Places, Please!–in 1985. The ten plays i
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen | Draw the Circle | ‘The hilarious and deeply moving story of conservative Muslim mother at her wits’ end, a Muslim father who likes to tell jokes, and a queer American w