Terry Guest’s two-character play is set in 2004 and includes one of the best Chicago performances of the year.

In director Mikhael Burke’s staging, “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen” is a sequin-studded, rose petal-raining ode to joy. The Story Theatre’s 90-minute two-hander feels not only timely but defiantly ...

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Written by Chicago playwright Lisa Dillman ... fifth season with a revival of Terry Guest’s At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen. The play, set in the rural South, chronicles Black queer life ...

At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen is a poignant exploration of Black queer life in the rural South, crafted by Terry Guest and directed by Mikael Burke. The play features Guest and Paul Michael ...

Also popping up this season are Colman Domingo, Kate Beckinsale, Susanne Bartsch, Adam Shankman, Jamal Sims, Mayan Lopez, Devery Jacobs and Sarah Michelle Gellar.