Kestryl Lowrey

WHAT THIS PLAY IS ABOUT IS A SECRET With the ever-present possibility of public surveillance and the increasing integration of social network sites, it would seem that our rights to privacy are disappearing. Â  Keeping a secret can be a challenge in web 2.0 world. Â  In Rites of Privacy, however, writer and performer David Rhodes asks…

OFFICE WORKERS GONE WRONG When I say that The Secretaries is a period piece, I’m not just describing the campy comedy’s early 90s fashion or repeated Slim’¢Fast references. Â  Â  Â  In the mill town of Big Bone, Oregon, it seems that Cooney Lumber can’t go more than 29 days without a bloody mishap. Â  Chronicling the initiation of…

HARVEY MILK 101 Dear Harvey is an educational theatre campaign, spearheaded by playwright Patricia Loughrey and composer Thomas Hodges. Â  Loughrey has compiled and arranged primary source materials about Harvey Milk and the lives he changed, and she wants everyone to learn more about his personality and mission. Comprised entirely of interviews with people who knew…

SHINE … (OUR APOLOGIES FOR PUTTING IT THIS WAY) … SHINES If you think about it, burlesques and musicals have a lot in common. Â  They are both flashy, and both depend on good choreography. Â  Characters have to be larger than life. Â  Performers have to expose a lot of themselves. Â  Audiences have high expectations, and an…

DRAG OUT THE PUPPETS No one does camp like a drag queen, and no one does drag like Joey Arias. This should give you some clue about Arias with a Twist, a spectacle created by puppet master Basil Twist and diva Joey Arias. Rocketing from an alien abduction to Hell to New York, Twist has…