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Article: The shows must go on: laugh? Cry? Sing? Plays and musicals created by gay and lesbian theater artists offer all options in the coming months, from Bea Arthur to Stephen Sondheim, from coast to coast. (theater).
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2002
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Despite the economic downturn and a conservative federal government--both of which make it tougher than ever to produce daring or culturally diverse arts projects--gay and lesbian theater artists across the nation are as productive as ever. "Sexual minoritarians are the life's blood of the American theater," says Tony Kushner, whose timely examination of Afghanistan and its effect on us, Homebody/Kabul, continues its premiere run in New York and heads to Rhode Island's Trinity Repertory Company in March and the Berkeley, Calif., Repertory Theatre in April. "I suspect the real reason we are so busy producing work is, we want to make John Simon even more wretched and ...