The Beebo Brinker Chronicles February 26, 2010

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (West Coast Premiere)
February 25 – March 13, 2010
Written by Kate Moira Ryan & Linda S. Chapman
Tickets $20-$40

“The Beebo Brinker Chronicles pries open the closet door and reveals the characters trapped behind it.” – BackStage

Adapted from Ann Bannon's groundbreaking, award-winning pulp novels of the 1950s and 1960s, Beebo Brinker Chronicles follows the lives and loves of four friends in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, still pine for each other. Before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in a web spun by Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the underground bar scene, and Jack, a flamboyant fop with caustic wit.

“Although [Ann Bannon is] hardly known outside lesbian literary circles today, Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman's hilarious dramatization of her Beebo Brinker series persuasively argues that there's gold in that dime-store pulp...far from being a simple sepia-toned snapshot of the past, this colorful portrait of gay life in the Village startles with the truths it flashes amid the one-liners and melodramatic confrontations.” - New York Magazine (Critics' Pick)

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