“Street Theater,” a play about Stonewall written by a playwright who was there, returns to The Eagle Bar*, 554 West 28th Street with 2-week run (Oct. 14-24, Weds-Sat, 7pm), presented by TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence), New York City’s oldest professional LGBT Theater.
Set in Greenwich Village June 28, 1969, shortly before the first brick was thrown at the Stonewall Inn, Doric Wilson’s legendary satire STREET THEATER follows the exploits of the cruisers, drag queens, undercover cops, dykes, hippies, mobsters and bystanders (innocent and otherwise) as they catapult toward the moment that changed the course of history.
“Doric Wilson was present at all three nights of the Stonewall riots,” said Mark Finley, Artistic Director of TOSOS. “His vision is unique among Stonewall chroniclers in that STREET THEATER is not so much a play about what happened as it is about what made it happen. It focuses less on who did what to whom and zeroes in on why we fought back in the first place. And that’s something I don’t think we can ever afford to forget.”
Wilson founded TOSOS in 1972, and wrote STREET THEATER in 1982. It was first presented in NYC in 1983 at the Mineshaft, and revived at The Eagle in 2002 and 2003. It has been revived annually as a fundraiser for the LGBT Center from 2009-2013.
Finley directs a large cast, which includes Christopher Borg (New York NeoFuturists), Joshua Kenney, Rebecca Nyahay, Eilis Cahill, Joe MacDougall, Chris Andersson, Russell Jordan, Jeremy Lawrence (Talking Tennessee), Michael Lynch (Livin’ on the Real), Tim Abrams, Ben Strothmann, Desmond Dutcher and Johnathan Cedano.
Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at http://streettheater.brownpapertickets.com/.
Tickets can also be purchased at the door (cash only).
*Audience members must be 21 years or older to attend