Stage: Spring Arts Preview 2023
metroweekly.comHurricane Diane at Avant Bard, a staging of Tony Kushner’s extraordinary Angels in America, Part 1 at Arena, featuring Ed Gero as Roy Cohn in a role that seems custom-made for the powerhouse actor, and a production of 1776 at the Kennedy Center that includes a cast replete with performers who identify as female, non-binary, and trans.
Founding fathers, indeed!The sad news, however, is that after 29 years, Rep Stage is shutting its doors. The theater, on the campus of Howard Community College in Maryland, is being closed by the university.
It’s a tremendous loss for the area and for the LGBTQ community, as Artistic Director Joseph W. Ritsch ensured the theater’s many queer-themed productions were rife with inclusivity.
Rep Stage ends its run with the very same musical they launched with nearly three decades ago: William Finn and James Lapine’s wonderful LGBTQ musical, Falsettos.
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