Out on the Edge Festival

This month-long annual festival is entering its seventeenth year and is considered one of the world’s premier GLBT theater festivals. Since 1992, this project has brought leading queer thinkers and artists from around the world to the Boston community for a Fall full of intensive training, hit shows and lively discussions. The Festival also offers master classes and training workshops by these world-class artists, and includes a play laboratory of local works in progress.

SHOWS

October 22 – 26
Nut/Cracked

Back for the whole family to see, after selling out in 2007! Exquisite dancing, yes, but this is no saccharine-dripped chestnut! Whether you love or hate the original, you and all your friends will get swept up in this irreverent Tchaikovsky dance extravaganza. It will have you tap dancing in the aisles? and sucking a thumb! With new twists for 2008. Co-produced with Pearl Productions.

“David Parker Knows His Ballet!”
-The New York Times

October 28 – November 1
Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue

Varla has charmed sold-out houses with her stunningly great voice and spectacularly bad taste, from Provincetown to Sydney (and even “Project Runway”!). Now, after conquering the rest of the world, the purported love-child of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine, tries to lick Boston! You?ll be left speechless in any language. Includes Varla’s Dirty Shorts film festival of her Greatest flicks!

“An Indisputable Force of Nature!”
-Los Angeles Times

October 31 – November 2
Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver of Split Britches in Miss America

The legendary, Obie-award winning playwright/performers return to Boston with their most timely show ever. Peggy and Lois expose what we have lost as America still clings to desperate triumphalism. Don’t miss this beautiful and heady twister of the American Dream, or what’s left of it.

“Split Britches Rip Apart Theatrical Convention, Exposing it to the Bone and Creating a New Aesthetic!” -Village Voice

November 4 – 8
The Kinsey Sicks in Wake the F**k Up America

What is the best way to celebrate an election victory? Hilarious queer performance with a political twist! In fact, that’ll work if we lose too. America’s Most Talented a capella drag queens finally storm Boston! This critically acclaimed ensemble serves it up sassy with a hysterical, perfectly harmonized satire of morning news TV. New England Premiere!

“Gut-busting Parodies and Raucous Shtick…Astonishing!”
-San Francisco Chronicle