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Play's Gay Jesus Roils Texas Town

(March 26) -- At one Texas university this weekend before Easter, the apostles are all gay, Jesus is officiating at a same-sex wedding and the kiss he shares with Judas is raising eyebrows. Those adaptations to the life and times of Christ are just part of Terrence McNally's incendiary 1998 stage play "Corpus Christi,"...

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05/09/12 Opera Festival Time Source: Fort Worth Weekly - Fort Worth TX Good ideas don't always translate into success, but Fort Worth Opera's festival format, alternating performances of four productions in a month-long residency, mostly at Bass Performance Hall, has been a bell ringer from the beginning six years ago.
05/03/12 Eddie Sarfaty: Celebrating 29 Years of Ahrens and... Source: The Huffington Post - Culture Besides talent, success requires years of work, inexhaustible energy, and unwavering focus.
05/01/12 Arcata Theatre Cantina: Â¡El Raco Taco! on Saturday... Source: Times-Standard - Eureka CA Will this be one of those house parties where the musicians outnumber the listening audience?
04/29/12 "Playing With Redemption," Documentary About Terrence... Source: Playbill "Playing With Redemption" tells the stories of the touring company for 108's production of Corpus Christi , the controversial 1998 play by four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally ( Kiss of the Spider Woman, Master Class, Ragtime ), which imagines Jesus as a gay man living in modern-day Texas.

Background on Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1939) is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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