Armistead Maupin News

The last time librettist Jeff Whitty and director Jason Moore were at the O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference, they were working on a little musical with puppets called "Avenue Q," a show that eventually went on to Broadway, where it won a Tony Award for best musical and will end its 6-year-plus run in September.

It's fair to say the O'Neill's National Music Theater Conference is having a banner year.

Kay Ryan , 63, poet. The current U.S. poet laureate, Ryan has published 16 books of poetry.

Mary Birdsong, Candy Buckley, Jeffrey Carlson and Christopher J. Hanke are among the cast of the developmental staging of "Tales of the City" at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in July.

Tony Award winner Dick Latessa, Lynn Cohen, Jeffrey Carlson, Mary Birdsong and Johanna Day have been cast in the O'Neill Theater's Musical Theater and Playwrights Conference projects.

Calarco will stage the reading of "Picnic at Hanging Rock," with book, lyrics, and music by Daniel Zaitchik A Moore will direct "Tales of the City," an adaptation of Armistead Maupin' s novel about San Francisco life in the 1970's by Jeff Whitty , book-writer for "Avenue Q," and Jason Sellards and John Garden , of the band Scissor Sisters .A A The ...

Tony nominee Jason Moore and Helen Hayes Award-winning director Joe Calarco will be directors for the 2009 Eugene O'Neill Music Theater Conference in Waterford, CT.

Three on a Party: "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gertrude Stein, directed by Delia MacDougall; "Two on a Party" by Tennessee Williams and "Suddenly Home" by Armistead Maupin, directed by John Fisher.

Collaborating for the first time, Word for Word, the company that turns short fiction into fully produced theater without altering a word of the original, and Theatre Rhinoceros, the country's oldest continuously running gay and lesbian theater, are throwing a "Party." Images View Larger Image The guests of honor are Gertrude Stein, Tennessee ...

It's American Idol season, which means that most of my conversations with family and friends get short-circuited with outbursts of "Why was Allison in the bottom three!?" or "How come the judges won't call Kris Allen a front-runner?!" or " J'enough with this fourth-judge business!" To help stave off these ugly incidents -- not to mention my ...

Some mysteries are baffling, some are frightening and some are all about tone, which is where you find The Night Listener, a psychological conundrum whose intrigues mostly take place in silences and apprehensions and, later, in the questions you take from the theatre.

THEATRE RHINOCEROS and WORD FOR WORD present Three On a Party, opening on Saturday May 16 at 8 PM , on Theatre Rhinoceros, Mainstage in San Francisco .

Theatre Rhinoceros and Word for Word have revealed the table of contents for the previously announced first-ever collaboration between the nation's oldest continually operating, proudly queer theater company and the innovative troupe that stages short stories with every word intact, the final show in the Rhino's current season.

Just months after its splashy October grand opening, Oakland's Barbary Lane Senior Communities is no more, an apparent victim of the current economic crisis.

Catching up with Armistead Maupin Jesse Hamlin, Chronicle Staff Writer Nobody captured the hedonism and high spirits of San Francisco in the '70s better than Armistead Maupin.

Nobody captured the hedonism and high spirits of San Francisco in the '70s better than Armistead Maupin.

The love-struck need just three little words to declare the contents of their heart.

Armistead Maupin once told me the problem with being well known is that there is no longer such a thing as anonymous sex.