In this episode, your hosts - Virginia, Mark, and Jordan - introduce the themes of this season and demonstrate how Doric Wilson's Now She Dances is the right play for right now. Episode Two ETA - June 15, 2021. Read the play! <a href= "https://outlinespod.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/now_she_dances.pdf"> Download Doric Wilson's Now She Dances</a> Read up on the playwright <a href= "https://www.tososnyc.org/doric-wilson">Doric Wilson</a> Learn more about TOSOS <a href= "https://tososnyc.org">tososnyc.org</a> References from Episode 1: Caffe Cino - <a href= "https://www.nps.gov/articles/caffe-cino.htm" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Article from the National Park Service</a> <a href= "https://www.seattlerep.org/about-us/inside-seattle-rep/indecent-and-american-theater-censorship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A good article on censorship in U.S. Theatre (from Seattle Rep)</a> Che! (stage play) and obscenity - <a href= "https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/09/08/che-eight-judged-guilty-of-obscenity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Village Voice article (1970)</a> Lenny (film) - <a href= "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071746/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">IMDB entry</a> The imprisonment of Oscar Wilde - <a href= "https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oscar-wilde-is-sent-to-prison-for-indecency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">History.com entry</a>

Episode 2: Intro to off-off-Broadway | NSD Act I Scenes 1-7

We're everywhere. We always have been and always will be. With surging LGBT+ representation in popular culture, it's hard to imagine a time when we weren't visible. But – not so very long ago – presenting the gay experience on stage was extremely risky business.

In Out Lines, we explore the forgotten history of gay theater in the United States through the plays of our most influential writers.

Gay theater didn't begin with Boys in the Band. Uncover the truth with us in Out Lines.