Podcasts about bootycandy

Dmae features two LGBTQIA+ productions at the annual OUTWright Festival produced by Fuse Theatre Ensemble. We talk with James Dixon, director of Bootycandy which receives its full production June 13-30 and Jennifer Lanier, co-artistic director of Ops Fest  (Original Practice Shakespeare) which is presenting The Tragedie of Othello on June 23 at 2pm. All shows […]

Mai and Julien sit down with Catastrophic Theatre to talk about Bootycandy, a production that is loosely based on playwright Robert O'Hara and explores the complicated layers of growing up black and queer.

Playwrights Horizons, a New York theater company with a mission devoted to supporting works by American writers, has opened its new season with a bold new play. Bootycandy, written and directed by Robert O’Hara, is a surreal and sexually explicit comedy about growing up black and gay in America. Philip James Brandon stars as Sutter, who grows from boy to man to budding playwright in the course of the play. New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood offers a review of the play, its cast (who play multiple roles), and the risks of a play being directed by its author. Performances of Bootycandy continue through Oct. 12 in the Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons. Because of the explicit language and situations in the play, the company recommends the production be seen by people 17 and older.