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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE FEBRUARY 25, 1994

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ACT UP Cleveland is having a benefit performance of Walking the Dead at the Cleveland Public Theatre on Thursday, March 3 at 8 pm. Proceeds from this performance will go to the Barbara McClintock Project, the plan to find a cure for AIDS. ACT UP representatives will be at the performance to answer questions about the project and about ACT UP. Tickets are $15. For reservations telephone 621-2233.

Cheryl West's Holiday Heart began previews at the Cleveland Play Houseon February 22 and will run through March 27. West is the author of Jar the Floor, one of the Play House's best productions last year, and of Before It Hits Home, a controversial play about homosexuality and AIDS in the African-American community that is currently under option to filmmaker Spike Lee. Tazewell Thompson, who staged Jar the Floor, has directed West's new play which is being co-produced by the Play House with the Seattle Repertory Com-

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pany and the Syracuse Stage (where it opened on January 6). The central character in the play is Holiday Heart, a drag queen who becomes the surrogate father for the play's narrator Niki Dean, a twelve year old girl. Although the play received a mixed review in the New York Times, critic David Richards praised Keith Randolph Smith for his extravagant performance of the title role and commended the writer for the strong emotional quality of the work. Tickets are $25-$33. For reservations and information about Pay What You Can performances telephone 795-7000.

The Cleveland Play House production of Another Part of the Forest is a travesty of Lillian Hellman's admittedly melodramatic drama. Josephine Abady's staging is so generally broad and obvious that the audi-

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ence ends up laughing at rather than with the work. The production is beautifully designed and has two excellent performances by Robin Moseley as Birdie Bagtry and Maeve McGuire as Lavinia Hubbard. As the Hubbard children Marisa Ryan, Grant Albrecht and Michael Keena Louden give the broadest and stupidest performances I've ever seen. It is a sad comment on what has gone wrong at the Play House.

Keith Hennessy, a queer performance artist from San Francisco, will be performing at Karamu House on February 24 at 8 pm and on February 27 at 7 pm as part of the Performance Art Festival. Hennessy calls his pieces "radical holy male performance

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rituals." The Advocate has described his distinctive style as "part theater, part protest rally, and part pagan litany." In Cleveland Hennessy will perform Heat, Act I, which he calls "an intensely personal performance investigating Racism and Violence from the perspective of a white queer man." Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance through Advantix at 241-6444.

The Chronicle's advice columnist, Taylor Hart, is also a playwright and Karamu House has chosen to read his play, At Heartbreak's End, during their Second Annual Joyce Whittey Play Festival running from March 10-27. At Heartbreak's End will be read at 8 pm on March 24 and 26. Karamu House is at 2355 E. 89th St. in Cleveland; 795-7077.

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A celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of Stonewall runs from March 6-16. Highlights include professor of history Martin Duberman speaking on "Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past." Duberman is a noted gay author of 15 books, most recently Stonewall, the definitive history of the early gay rights movement. He will speak on Sunday, March 6, 8 pm, Ford Chapel, free admission.

A performance of Cabaret by 3D-2 International takes place in Shafer Auditorium on Monday, March 7 at 8 pm. Tickets are $10. On Tuesday, March 8, the video Last Call at Maud's will be shown in the Brooks Alumni Lounge at 7:30, free. This fascinating documentary traces the history of the country's oldest lesbian bar and the lesbian community in San Francisco from World War II to the present. The awardwinning video, Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community, is a portrait of America's gay population, pre1969. It will be shown on Sunday, March 13 at the Campus Center Walker Room, 7:30, free.

The Flirtations will perform in concert at Ford Chapel on Tuesday, March 15 at 8 pm. General seating is $10 ($5 students), and a special package which includes reserved

seating and the "Flirt with the Flirts" reception is $20 ($10 students). The next day there is a free workshop and discussion, "Coming Out with the Flirts," where each member of the singing group shares insights and personal stories. At the Campus Center Walker Room, noon-1:30 pm.

Allegheny College is in Meadville, Pennsylvania, about 80 miles east of Cleveland. For information or to charge tickets with Visa or Mastercard by phone, call 814332-2838.

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A celebration of the sacred music of African Americans, "Spiritual Gifts," will be performed on Saturday, February 26, at Drinko Hall in the Music and Communications Building, 2001 Euclid Ave., starting at 5 pm.

The program features solo and choral performances, including tenor Dwight Fleming, who sang at Center Stage II, the talent show sponsored by Cleveland's Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center last year.

"Spiritual Gifts" traces the history of spiritual expression in the songs of African American culture. Admission is free, donations accepted.