Austin Playwright's Work Continues to Celebrate Gay Pride Month

Two of Austin gay playwright Allan Baker's one act plays will again be part of a community's Gay Pride Celebration.  On June 26th, Desert Rose Playhouse, "The Coachella Valley's LGBT and Gay Positve Stage Company", will present staged readings of "Click" and "A Midsummer Night's Conversation" at the Tolerance Education Center in Rancho Mirage, CA as part of the Palm Springs community's Pride Month celebration.  Focusing on two couples, these plays deal with different stages of their relationships:  for one, the beginning in an attempt at an online hookup and, for the other, that moment, several months into the relationship, when someone uses "the L word" for the first time.  In both, the damage of the "inner closet" for gay men is a central theme.  In June 2010 both plays were produced at the Rollins Theatre of the Long Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Austin Pride 2010 Festival.  In September 2011 they were produced by Uptown Players at the Kalita Humphreys Theater as part of the first Dallas Pride Performing Arts Festival.

This will be the second time "Click" will have been produced in Southern California.  In July 2012 the Eclectic Company Theatre in LA produced this play as part of their "Hurricane Season One Act Festival and Playwriting Competition" and it won first place in the competition.

And the seventh production of Allan's moving 9/11 play, "...last and always", will take place from July 11th to 20th in Clearwater, FL as part of West Coast Players 5th One Act Plays Festival.  This play premiered as part of New York City's Pride Festival in 2009.  It was again produced in NYC in 2011, in Livingston, Montana in May 2012 and in Buffalo, NY in June 2012 as part of that community's Pride celebrations.  In November 2013 it was produced by the Theatre Dept. of the University of Guam and in January of this year by the Actors' Theatre of Santa Cruz, CA.

For information, you may visit Allan's website at AbbyProductions.com.