Broadway's 'Take Me Out' director Stt Ellis talks how he readied his st for Richard Greenberg's play about a gay Black baseball player.
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- JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
Former 'Grey's Anatomy' star Jse Williams was to the ongog bate over straight actors playg gay characters as he embarks on dog jt that Broadway's 'Take Me Out' * take me out gay version *
Blatant homophobia and transphobia is rampant thanks to the lik of Republin policians like Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Lren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and many others propagatg anti-LGBTQ hate Fierste on Love, Broadway, Secrets, Addictn, and Fightg Anti-LGBTQ BigotryLast year, almost 20 years after Take Me Out was first performed, Bryan Ruby ma history as the first out gay profsnal baseball player, tellg USA Today that he wanted “to help create a world where future generatns of baseball players don’t have to sacrifice thenticy or who they really are to play the game they love.
The gay baseball player is not alone, isolated, bullied, rejected. The tle of the play tak on many meangs—light and dark—as the play is easy to sell Take Me Out as “the gay baseball play.
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'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
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Mason don’t re about sports, ed has been alienated om them—until there is Michael Oberholtzer’s Shane Mungt, a fantastic pcher and awful human, whose sual homophobia and racism be a sendary cultural prism the play. Here aga, the play revers expectatns of what a nontatn between gay man and bigot will be about. His cisn to open up about his sexualy sparks a firtorm of homophobia and racism the sport, particularly his own locker room.
But Williams is also engagg wh another proment topic of discsn — whether straight actors should play gay characters. He don't nsir himself part of the gay muny, and he's stgglg wh his own inty and sense of awarens there.