Saturday, March 13, 7 p.m. AustinVentures Studio Theater inside Ballet Austin's Butler Dance Education Center, 501 W. 3rd Street Tickets $20 per person. On sale now at www.BrownPaperTickets.com.
Based on the 2006 Lambda Literary Award-winning book of short stories Walk Like A Man by Laurinda D. Brown. What began as a self-published idea has evolved into the first African-American lesbian play to be performed Off-Broadway.
Welcome to Walk Like A Man - The Play, an edge-of-your-seat dramedy that educates through entertainment. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll leave entertained. Walk Like A Man - The Play is all about you! Don't miss twelve enticing actresses who educate through entertainment, portraying labels, issues, and stereotypes in relationships. "Don't ask, don't tell" to runaway youth, love and religious controversies to domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, safe-sex messages, and affairs in the workplace -- these topics and more are presented for your thought-provoking pleasure. Read more, see images at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
the state organization for queer people of color presents
Promised Land
A Radical Queer Revival: One boy’s search for love, liberation and a working toilet in the Appalachian woods Written and Performed by Rudy Ramirez Directed by Bree Perlman Dec 4-5, 11-12 (Fri-Sat) at 8 p.m. at The New Movement: 1819 Rosewood Ave, Austin, TX Recommended Donation: $5-$10 Talk back facilitated by allgo on December 11
Promised Land is the story of one queer Latino boy’s search for love, liberation, and a working toilet in the Tennessee woods. After years spent looking for romance in the wilderness of San Francisco, Austin performer Rudy Ramirez traveled to Radical Fairyland, a haven for the queerest of the queer in the Appalachian mountains. The following 24 hours changed his life forever. Now he’s taking audiences with him (don’t worry, it’s only an hour this time) to experience the vegan pot pie dinners, radical queer ninjas, freezing cabins, mountains covered in vanilla frosting, a store called Gay Identities ‘r’ Us, and, most terrifying of all, outhouses. It’s a story of finding yourself–and maybe even someone to make out with–in the most unlikely of places.
