Theatre Rhinoceros John Fisher, Executive Director
Theatre Rhino’s 2011-12 Season
The Journey of the Queer
This season we travel through history as we revisit the great gay activist of the fifties, the great queer playwright of the Twentieth Century and arrive in the present for a comedy-drama about the state of queerdom in the new millennium.
Along the way we make some stops: first to worship the great queer comedian/song stylist Lea DeLaria, then to worship all the local queer starlights.
Theatre Rhinoceros
1360 Mission Street
Suite #200
San Francisco
Rhino performers past and future
SexRev: The José Sarria Experience
Written and Directed by John Fisher
November 10 – November 27, 2011 At Counterpulse Theatre (1310 Mission Street, between 9th and 10th, SF, CA 94103)
The return engagement of our hit show about the man who was the first great queer activist, the first openly gay man to run for public office and the first Empress. (See Highlights)
Lea DeLaria stars in The 2011 Rhino New Year’s Eve Spectacular
December 31, 2011
Two Shows Only! 7 pm and 9 pm At the Victoria Theatre (2960 16th Street, at Mission, SF, CA 94103)
The New Year’s Eve Spectacular returns with Broadway star Lea DeLaria bringing her one of a kind blend of song and satire to the Victoria. Ring in the New Year with the most outrageous, tuneful show in town. (See Highlights)
The Two-Character Play
By Tennessee Williams
January 4 – 15, 2012 At the Eureka Theatre (215 Jackson Street, between Front and Battery, SF, CA 94111)
Williams’ heartbreaking backstage saga of a brother and sister and the secrets that make them cling to one another and eventually tear them apart. Williams’ own favorite play, The Two-Character Play brings together all the themes of his career in one final comic drama which celebrates both life and a life in the theatre. (See Highlights)
The 2012 Rhino Benefit Extravaganza
March 26, 2012
One Show Only! At the Eureka Theatre (215 Jackson Street, between Front and Battery, SF, CA 94111)
Join us for one night of the very best in LGBT talent. All your favorite local headliners will be on stage for this unique variety event.
100 Saints You Should Know
By Kate Fodor
May 31 – June 17, 2012 At Thick House (1695 18th Street, at Arkansas, SF, CA 94107) San Francisco Premiere
A comedy from the pen of one of America’s most sensitive playwrights, 100 Saints touches on family love, homosexuality and adolescence.
Earlier in the Season
SexRev
SexRev: The José Sarria Experience
Written and Directed by John Fisher November 10 – November 27 EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND THRU DEC. 4! Thursday - Saturday @ 8 PM
Late-Night Shows Saturdays @ 10:30 PM
Sunday, 11/13 @ 7 PM
Sunday Matinees, 11/20 and 11/27 @ 300 PM At CounterPULSE www.counterpulse.org (1310 Mission Street, between 9th and 10th, SF, CA 94103)
The return engagement of our hit show about the man who was the first great queer activist, the first openly gay man to run for public office and the first Empress.
Pictured left to right: Donald Currie and Jean Franco in SEX REV: THE JOSE SARRIA EXPERIENCE, written and directed by John Fisher; produced by Theatre Rhinoceros; photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Sean Keehan, Robert Kittler, Tom Orr, Carlos Barrera, and Jean Franco in SEX REV: THE JOSE SARRIA EXPERIENCE, written and directed by John Fisher; produced by Theatre Rhinoceros; photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Sean Keehan, Robert Kittler, Tom Orr, Carlos Barrera, and Jean Franco in SEX REV: THE JOSE SARRIA EXPERIENCE, written and directed by John Fisher; produced by Theatre Rhinoceros; photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Tom Orr, Carlos Barrera, and Jean Franco in SEX REV: THE JOSE SARRIA EXPERIENCE, written and directed by John Fisher; produced by Theatre Rhinoceros; photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Carlos Barrera, Jean Franco, and Tom Orr in SEX REV: THE JOSE SARRIA EXPERIENCE, written and directed by John Fisher; produced by Theatre Rhinoceros; photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Tom Orr and Sean Keehan in SEX REV: THE JOSE SARRIA EXPERIENCE, written and directed by John Fisher; produced by Theatre Rhinoceros; photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Carlos Barrera and Sean Keehan in SEX REV: THE JOSE SARRIA EXPERIENCE, written and directed by John Fisher; produced by Theatre Rhinoceros; photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Carlos Barrera and Sean Keehan in SEX REV: THE JOSE SARRIA EXPERIENCE, written and directed by John Fisher; produced by Theatre Rhinoceros; photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Jean Franco, Robert Kittler, and Sean Keehan in SEX REV: THE JOSE SARRIA EXPERIENCE, written and directed by John Fisher; produced by Theatre Rhinoceros; photos by Kent Taylor.
Poster -- Click for a full-size version
Photos by Kent Taylor. Click on an image for a full-size version from the 2010 Production
Pictured left to right: Donald Currie, Michael Vega, Tom Orr and Jean Franco in "SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience" Written and Directed by John Fisher. Photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Donald Currie, Michael Vega, Tom Orr and Jean Franco in "SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience" Written and Directed by John Fisher. . Photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured: Tom Orr in "SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience" Written and Directed by John Fisher.. Photos by Kent Taylor.
Tom Orr and Jean Franco in "SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience" Written and Directed by John Fisher. Photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Tom Orr and Michael Vega in "SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience" Written and Directed by John Fisher. Photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Jean Franco and Michael Vega in "SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience" Written and Directed by John Fisher. Photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Tom Orr, Jean Franco and Michael Vega in "SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience" Written and Directed by John Fisher.. Photos by Kent Taylor.
Pictured left to right: Jean Franco, Tom Orr, Michael Vega and Donald Currie in "SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience" Written and Directed by John Fisher. Photos by Kent Taylor.
Tom Orr in "SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience" Written and Directed by John Fisher. Photos by Kent Taylor.
Click on a production photograph for a large-format version for media. Photos by Kent Taylor.
34 Seconds of SexRev will make you go Head Over Heels!
Lea DeLaria in The Last Butch Standing
Lea DeLariastars in
The Last Butch Standing The 2011 Rhino New Year’s Eve Spectacular
December 31, 2011
Two Shows Only! 7 pm and 9 pm At the Victoria Theatre (2961 16th Street, at Mission, SF, CA 94103) Map It!
The New Year’s Eve Spectacular returns when Broadway star and goddess vocalist Lea DeLaria brings her one-of-a-kind blend of song and hilarious satire to the Victoria.
Ring in the New Year with the most outrageous, tuneful show in town..
There are punch lines, torch songs and plenty of scatting in Lea DeLaria's show THE LAST BUTCH STANDING.
The show is a mix of swinging jazz and stand-up blue comedy that explores what it is like to be a bad ass dyke in the post Ellen 21st Century.
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by John Fisher
January 4 - 15, 2012
Previews: Wednesday, January 4 - Friday, January 6
Opening, Saturday, January 7
Tuesday - Saturday @ 8 PM
Sunday Matinees @ 3 PM
At Eureka Theatre
215 Jackson Street, between Front and Battery), San Francisco
The Two-Character Play is Tennessee Williams' heartbreaking backstage saga of a brother and sister and the secrets that make them cling to one another and eventually tear them apart.
Williams' own favorite play, The Two-Character Play brings together all the themes of his career in one final comic drama which celebrates both life and a life in the theatre. It's Tennessee Williams as you've never seen him.
The Two-Character Play is his scintillating study of sex, madness, theatre and the ghosts that haunt all artists. Williams called The Two-Character Play his favorite work, his most auto-biographical and his most terrifying.
The characters in this play, Felice and Clare are two actors on tour, they are also brother and sister. They find themselves deserted by their acting troupe in a decrepit "state theatre in an state unknown".
Faced (perhaps) by an audience expecting a performance, they enact The Two-Character Play – an illusion within an illusion, an "out cry" from isolation, panic, and fear.
The Two-Character Play has a concurrent double plot with the convention of a play within a play scenario. As the actors dip in and out of performance, improvising parts not memorized or not yet written, it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate the actors from the characters and reality from illusion.
Photos by Kent Taylor - click on a photo for a large-format version for print media
Pictured from left to right: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton at Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at the Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from left to right: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton as Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at The Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from top to bottom: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton as Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at The Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from left to right: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton as Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at The Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from left to right: Alexandra Creighton as Clare and Ryan Tasker as Felice in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at The Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from left to right: Alexandra Creighton as Clare and Ryan Tasker as Felice in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at The Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from top to bottom: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton at Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at the Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor..
Pictured from left to right: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton at Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at the Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor..
Pictured from left to right: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton at Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at the Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from top to bottom: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton at Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at the Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor..
Pictured from top to bottom: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton at Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at the Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from left to right: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton at Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at the Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from left to right: Alexandra Creighton as Clare and Ryan Tasker as Felice in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at the Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from left to right: Alexandra Creighton as Clare and Ryan Tasker as Felice in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at the Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor.
Pictured from top to bottom: Ryan Tasker as Felice and Alexandra Creighton as Clare in The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. A Theatre Rhinoceros production at The Eureka Theatre. Costumes by Christine U'Ren, photo by Kent Taylor..
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