SHOW & TELL
LGBTQ theater unveils schedule
Evolution Theatre Company will focus on history and mystery in 2019 with three area premieres, a new play and classic musical.
Central Ohio’s LGBTQ theater will begin operating next year under a smallprofessional-theater contract with Actors’ Equity Association.
All productions will take place at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave.
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(May 22 to June 1): The haunted-house comedy-mystery revolves around six relatives gathered for the reading of a will.
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(July 17-27): The musical features a gay fashion designer transported to a 1970s gay bar after buying a New Orleans building.
• "Who Killed Joan Crawford?" (Aug. 21-31): The comic murder mystery involves male guests, dressed as Crawford in her signature roles, waiting for a surprise party.
• "Cabaret" (Sept. 18-28): The Broadway musical focuses on a Berlin nightclub during the rise of Hitler in Germany.
• "The Turkey Men" (Oct. 16-26): Local playwright Douglas Whaley’s new play deals with two ghosts of gay Civil War soldiers and a 2016 couple that arrives at their turkey farm with a lesbian teenager who they are trying to turn heterosexual.
Subscriptions cost $50 before Dec. 31. For information, call 614233-1124 or visit www. evolutiontheatre.org