Good theatre is something to be cherished. Great theatre is an experience. The exceptional story of No Homo lets the audience member in to those most private moments of love. Moments where we have to decide which is more important; to love as I want to love, or love others watching me be in love? Through parents, friends, movies, art, postcards, notecards, books, stories, legends, and myths we are told: "This is how you love." No Homo asks you to instead love as you will.
With three dimensional characters, written intelligently and without pretense by Brandon Baruch, we are brought into a world filled with truthful conversations between loved ones. We don't get a sense of the cliche archetypal characters so often running amuck on our LA ...
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Was not expecting this, but NO HOMO is easily the best thing I've seen at this year's Fringe. The writing is hysterical and insightful, the direction astute, and the cast exceptional (and funny and sexy and a whole lot more). Props to all involved for 90 minutes of sheer delight!...
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A gay story we haven’t yet seen onstage may seem about as hard to imagine as John Travolta without an angry denial, and yet that is precisely what playwright Brandon Baruch has treated us to in NO HOMO—A Bromantic Tragedy, as funny and crowd-pleasingly satisfying a gay play as I’ve seen in a good long while.
20somethings Ash (Jonny Rodgers) and Luke (Benjamin Durham) have been inseparable besties since college, so much so that everyone they know, including Ash’s gay brother Serge (AJ Jones) and Luke’s just-out sister Chrissy (Lizzie Adelman), assumes them to be a couple. In fact, even Ash and Luke themselves may harbor suspicions that the other is gay.
Still, all speculation aside, our bff heroes do appear to be decidedly “No Homo,” th...
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