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Marcy Harriell Hits the Heights

By Mark Thompson and Robert Doyle | Aug 30
Anyone who’s ever seen Marcy Harriell on stage, television, or the silver screen, knows how she illuminates the space around her. During her two-year run in the Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Rent, the New York Times called her "incandescent."


Theatre Features

Vicki Lawrence

Vicki Lawrence :: Mama Knows Best

By Rich Lopez
Vicki Lawrence works to keep Mama up with the times in a new show she brings to Texas this weekend as part of a national tour continuing through the fall.
Vicki Lawrence

Alison Amgrim :: Prairie Bitch tells all

By Jim Halterman
Looking for a good summer read? Then pick up Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Alison Arngrim’s account of growing up in West Hollywood with a closeted dad, enduring sexual abuse by a brother and, most memorably, spending her teen years playing nasty Nellie Oleson on the classic television series Little House on the Prairie. EDGE’s Jim Halterman spoke with Arngrim about her book, her friendships (and non-friendships) with other Little House cast members and her one-woman show.
Randy Harrison (Photo by Todd Franson)

Life after ’Folk’ for Randy Harrison

By Tom Avila
If all you know of Randy Harrison is Queer as Folk, you don’t know Randy Harrison. The seasoned stage actor takes to the stage in DC in Shakespeare.
Randy Harrison (Photo by Todd Franson)

Steven Fales takes the ’Missionary Position’

By M. M. Adjarian
When he last appeared at NY’s Fringe Festival, Steven Fales introduced his first, hugely successful solo piece about being gay and Mormon. Now he’s back with his second. EDGE spoke Fales about his evolving personal theater pieces.
Randy Harrison (Photo by Todd Franson)

Wendy Ho :: Singer. Rapper. Truth Teller. Ho

By M. M. Adjarian
Wendy Ho describes herself as a "female drag queen" who’s been making up the rules as she goes along. Now based in LA, the renegade performer spoke to EDGE about her aesthetic and career.
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Theatre Reviews

Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party

By JC Alvarez
Aaron Loeb’s timely and historically political social satire offers the kind-of hilarity not seen since the days of The Carol Burnett Show.

My Big Gay Italian Wedding

By Steve Weinstein
Like a plate of Italian pasty - no nutritive value, but it’s so much while you’re consuming it - this big-haired, big-hearted mess of a play is the perfect summer confection. A game cast, lots of whacked-out one-liners and anarchic energy. Like a gay Marx Brothers!

Promises, Promises

By Steve Weinstein
Listen up, Broadway: there’s a new star on the boulevard, a supernova. But Sean Hayes’ career-making performance is only one of the treats in this first-ever revival of an ür-’60s confection where so much is so good, you don’t mind the second-rate score.
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