• • Elizabeth Maupin writes: Well, maybe you did. Actually, you may have heard tell of a play West wrote called Sex, which ran on Broadway for about a year before the New York Police Department shut it down for obscenity and sent West off to jail. She got off two days early for good behavior — which is a funny notion in itself.
• • Anyway, West wrote plays, and one of them, a play called Drag [sic], will be given a reading next week by Queer Quills, a local group dedicated to bringing to the public eye some plays with gay and lesbian themes.
• • It’s a reincarnation, of sorts, of a reading series done in 2004, put together by Scottie Campbell and Margaret Nolan, who presented readings of Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Boys in the Band and The Killing of Sister George.
• • Chris Robison is directing the reading of Drag [sic], which will be at 7 p.m. Sunday (during the Super Bowl!) at Breakthrough Theatre, 419-A W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park. There’s a suggested donation of $5, which will go to the Paul M. Wegman Scholarship for Actors at Valencia Community College.
• • Here’s info about the scholarship program named for the late, great actor and director Paul Wegman, who died in 2004:
• • The Paul M. Wegman Scholarship for Actors at Valencia Community College will be awarded annually to an acting/performance major who has completed her/his first year of study. ...
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• • Article: Mae West a playwright? Who knew?
• • BY: Elizabeth Maupin | Theater Critic for the Orlando Sentinel
• • Published by: The Orlando Sentinel — — blogs.orlandosentinel.com
• • Published on: 3 February 2010
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