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Article: Championship season: playwright Richard Greenberg talks about bringing his hot-button gay baseball play, Take Me Out, to Broadway. (theater).(Interview)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2003
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How does it feel to have written the gay play of the year? Richard Greenberg seems genuinely taken aback by the question. "Have I?" asks the author of such witty and articulate theatrical experiences as Eastern, Standard and Three Days of Rain. "If I have, that's thrilling."
Greenberg's new play, Take Me Out--the much talked-about gay baseball drama that moves to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre in February--has certainly been thrilling audiences for much of the past year. The production, directed by Joe Mantello, premiered in London last summer and then enjoyed a sold-out run at New York City's Joseph Papp Public Theater in the fall. Yet Greenberg wrote the show ...