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A Hard Rain
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(Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave, New York, NY, 10003)(Tu - Sa 8pm, Su 3pm)
Set in 1969 Greenwich Village in the sweltering few days before the Stonewall riots. A drag queen and former soldier named Ruby, veteran of ten months' fighting in Vietnam, rocks up in Greenwich Village in high heels and a rage. In a Mafia-run bar greased with smart-talking queers, bribe-happy cops and nervous Wall Street high-flyers, she meets a street kid and will change his world, and ours.
The play exposes the urban landscape that germinated the modern gay liberation movement. It is not set in the infamous Stonewall Inn, but in a neighboring, mob-owned joint that is a pressure cooker of desire, anger and thwarted hope. There, being underground is no longer enough for characters struggling to find new ways to negotiate intimacy and ideas of community. Impactful without being preachy or grave, the play sketches and celebrates the modern roots of queer culture without sidestepping the sort of personal struggles and conflicts within it. In fact, it shows just how integral those conflicts were, and still are, to ushering in change and social progress.
((212) 254-1109)($25 general admission, $20 seniors/students)
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| January 6-25 , Tu - Sa 8pm, Su 3pm |
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