‘It’s Only a Play’ and ‘Ruthless!’ Look to Generate Laughs

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Two campy, gay-directed productions are on tap for local theater patrons. Out director DeWayne Morgan is directing Process Theatre’s version of “It’s Only a Play” at Onstage Atlanta, written by legendary gay playwright Terrence McNally.

It takes place on opening night of a Broadway show called “The Golden Egg.” At the producer’s house, the team is having an opening night party, and everyone gets inadvertently stuck in his bedroom as they await incoming critical notices. “Every time they try and go downstairs, something happens,” Morgan told Georgia Voice.

In the mix is a has-been actress trying to get her career back on track, a playwright with his first Broadway show, his best friend, a TV actor, the director and a theater critic known for brutal reviews. “It’s a behind-the-curtains glimpse into what it’s like to put on a show on Broadway and how heartbreaking and how exuberant it can be,” Morgan said. “Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don’t.

It’s very farcical. The play teaches you that theater people are very resilient and no matter what happens they still keep going on to the next project.” The play was revised from a 1978 play called “Broadway, Broadway.” Originally it premiered off-off-Broadway in 1982 and then off-Broadway four years later.