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A Red Orchid Theatre Extends Accidentally, Like a Martyr

The drama is written by Grant James Vargas.

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A scene from Accidentally, Like a Martyr, directed by Shade Murray, at Chicago's A Red Orchid Theatre.
A scene from Accidentally, Like a Martyr, directed by Shade Murray, at Chicago's A Red Orchid Theatre.
(© Michael Brosilow)

A Red Orchid Theatre's production of Grant James Varjas' Accidentally Like a Martyr, directed by Sade Murray, has extended its run through March 15. The production began performances January 15.

The play is described as being set "in a dive-y gay bar on Manhattan’s Lower East Side," where "the regulars and the restless others do battle, joke and drink their way through a lonely winter evening. Different generations and backgrounds collide, secrets are revealed and old wounds are torn anew as these survivors come to grips with life, loss and aging in the 21st century."

The production stars Steve Haggard, Doug Vickers, David Cerda, Layne Manzer, Luce Metrius, Troy West, and Dominique Worsley. It premiered at the Paradise Factory in New York in 2011.

The creative team for Accidentally, Like a Martyr includes John Holt (set designer), Karen Kawa (costume designer), Rachel Levy (lighting designer), Brando Triantafillou (sound designer), Arianna Soloway (props designer), and S. G. Heller (stage manager).

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