He slapped actors who annoyed him. Gave curtain speeches encouraging the audience to go home and have “great sex.” Most famously, he whacked poor Evan Handler on the backside with a sword during the run of Paul Rudnick’s “I Hate Hamlet.” Norman Twain,...

Finding the very last parking spot in the handy College Street lot for the Charlotte premiere of Paul Rudnick's , we cruised past a dignified candlelight prayer vigil protesting the production. The sore point, affirmed by numerous posters displayed...

St. Matthew, St. Gabriel, St. Mark and St. Ann were outside the theater to pray the Rosary and hold a "Holy Hour of Reparation" - or prayers offered up in the face of a wrong they feel is being committed. The play is "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told,"...

(It opened Thursday night at Spirit Square, runs through Feb. 18 and has all but sold out its opening weekend.) This 1998 comedy, which revisits biblical incidents via two gay couples, didn't shake my faith in God or realign my understanding of the...

They'll pray the Rosary, he said, and hold a "Holy Hour of Reparation," or prayers offered up in the face of a wrong they feel is being committed. The play is "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told," an off-Broadway hit comedy written by Paul Rudnick. It...

Speculation about the father circulated through the theater world. Possible candidates included a Who’s Who of gay artists: director Gerald Gutierrez, producer Andre Bishop, costume designer William Ivey Long , director Nick Hytner, and playwrights...