Upcoming
The Pursuit of Happiness
June 1st - 25th
Author: Ernie Lijoi
Director: Rusty Tennant
Musical Director: Mak Kastelic
Get ready for another zany ride as Fuse brings you the most recent mad-cap meta-musical from the brain of Ernie Lijoi.
The alarm has sounded: a nuclear bomb is headed our way, and everyone is divulging their secrets. Will these secret sorrows shatter their perfect lives or is honesty truly the best policy? Is the happiness we pursue the one we'll one day catch? Come find out.
Join us for OUTwright Theatre Festival's 12th year, featuring readings from various new works which contribute to the LGBTQIA+ canon. Help us to support queer people, and queer art in this new works reading series.
Workshop
Readings
Queen of the Deseret
by Carlos-zenen Trujillo
June 4
Blonde on a Bum Trip
by Mikki Gillette
June 11
Sappho: The Tenth Muse
by Ravyn Jazper-Hawke
June 18
A collection of workshop performances intended to highlight community work, featuring local performers, directors and playwrights.
More info
coming soon!
June 26th - Sept. 17th
Break of Mourning
Oct. 19th - Nov. 5th
There is only one rule: be a man.
Clark is a woman; the world doesn’t know this. What happens when you try too hard to be something you’re not? It’s said the more you try to keep a secret, the harder it is to keep. What happens when it all comes crashing down?
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coming soon!
Great White Gets Off
Dec. 7th - 24th
More info coming soon!
When Great White met Snakecharmer on a hookup app, he was looking to get off. Through sexual role play, they explore whether two gay men can find a connection while navigating shifting power dynamics, racial resentments, and the ongoing influence of colonialism.
Past Productions
Ronald Reagan
Murdered My Mentors
Feb. 9th - 26th
Author: C. Julian Jiménez
Director: James R. Dixon
Assistant Director: Devon Roberts
Fuse Theatre Ensemble and BlaQ OUT present Ronald Reagan Murdered My Mentors, a raw, introspective new play which investigates the barriers to love and happiness gay men in America have faced since the onset of the AIDS epidemic.
American Girl
April 6th - 30th
Author: Mikki Gillette
Director: Sarah Andrews
Assistant Director: Juliet Mylan
The tragic, true story of Nikki Kuhnhausen, a trans teen killed in a hate crime in Vancouver, WA in 2019. Based on extensive interviews with Nikki’s family and friends, it tells an all-too modern American story of addiction, homelessness, domestic abuse, sex work and murder.
