Photo FeaturesGo Inside Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For Off-Broadway
Broadway favorites starred in the one-night-only Audible adaptation at Minetta Lane Theatre.
By
Leah Putnam
June 26, 2023
Take a look at all who came out to perform in and support Dykes to Watch Out For - One Night Stand, an Audible adaptation of Alison Bechdel's comic series that performed for one night only at Off-Broadway's Minetta Lane Theatre. The June 23 reading was held in celebration of Pride Month.
The audio series, adapted by playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George and directed by Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman, is based on the cult-favorite comic strip from Bechdel. Another graphic work from Bechdel was famously adapted into Jeanine Tesori and Kron's Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home.
When the play premiered in London in 1912, it was considered controversial, but was praised for its depiction of two young people seeking pleasure before marriage.
The move follows a breakdown in negotiations between the Off-Broadway company and IATSE, through which the company's backstage workers unionized in 2024.
Set in a 1947 Provincetown beach house, the play unfolds over one sultry night as Tennessee Williams and a young Marlon Brando craft A Streetcar Named Desire together.
Partially inspired by Sophocles' Antigone, the show is an intimate exploration of love that goes beyond faith between a queer Pakistani-American man and his deeply devout mother.