From the Artistic Director: 

In June 2009, forty years will have passed since the Stonewall Riots thundered along Christopher and Gay Streets in New York City's Greenwich Village. Queer people in the village carried out several nights of rioting against police in full riot gear protesting the closing of a seedy mob-run bar called the Stonewall Inn. They were drag queens, nellie boys, trannies, lesbians, gay men, and even homeless gay teens inhabiting nearby Sheridan Square. In a few nights time they set the highly combustible frustration of 1969's newly-emerging gay community on fire. What emerged from the ensuing struggles surprised us all: Pride.

In June, we will re-enact those distant riots onstage, before your very eyes, and sing some great music that will make you laugh, cry, dance, and sigh: romantic, raucous, baudy, leathery, drag king/queeney, and hot. If you want to celebrate gay pride, this is your chance. Nothing in Maine will come even close: June 18, 19, and 20 at Portland Stage Company.

  Art Kenne
Artistic Director