Yes! It’s that time of year: jingle, mistle, golden rings! All those traditional Christmas trappings, familiar and safe — but wait! There’s something rotten under the tree that\’s never been seen before… It’s the new and final revision to a Gilda Shedstecker Presents! Yuletide twist. Opening December 8th at the Kathleen Howland theatre, it’s Hell, …
We wake to a new day and new information and find we need to reassess our position. It\’s always been my intent to make the Gilda company one of kindness and acceptance and tolerance and a safe place. And it\’s been my need to make Gilda shows vehicles for escape and laughter, with maybe a …
Parody isn\’t as harsh as a lampoon. It doesn\’t bite as deep as satire. Parody is a loving form of flattery, taking something familiar because it\’s well loved, and having some fun with its petticoats. My all time TV favorite shows were those that featured sketch comedy. There was something so friendly about seeing the …
\”Just tell me, Mary, are we the parents of the groom or the parents of the bride?\” Although some communities choose to celebrate on a different schedule, June is generally regarded as LGBT Pride Month, in honor of the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan that were pivotal in launching a national movement of acceptance and …
Oh, yes, it\’s been a while coming, and here it is. It\’s like Comedy Central when some of our Gilda Shedstecker Presents! players in solo action steal the spotlight. Happy New Year, our first production of 2016 is a party for our audience, our friends! When I directed Tammy Zinkhon Hyde in the one-woman show …
Ah, it\’s that time of year: the often trying occasion of getting together with family to celebrate the holidays! With the accumulating pressures of decorating, shopping, and planning, who has the energy left to endure yet another assemblage of those people who are by accidents of birth, relatives. Welcome to Christmas with the Holiday family! …
When I was a little tyke, my older sister and my cousins used to occasionally dress me as a girl. My mom thought it was cute. Somewhere there is a black and white photo of me about age 3 in an Easter ensemble complete with hat, gloves, and purse, smiling for the camera. Let me …
Blanche, more people have kissed you than have kissed the Pope\’s ring. Read More »
This past weekend we opened The Lightbearer by Shane Riggs, and it\’s been an exceptional experience. It\’s a perfect example of why Gilda Shedstecker Presents! is more than just doing theatre for us. This cast has had a wonderful rapport, expanding our family with a friend we\’ve been courting for our stage, performed an amazingly …
The Lightbearers is a ladies group of the First United Methodist Church, and for a lifetime of friendship they\’re the ones who know anybody who knows anything about everything. They know what the Bible says, have opinions on what the Bible ought to say, and that in the end it\’s all about love. The Lightbearer …
It\’s nearly become a tradition in a production of Gilda Shedstecker Presents! since our very first show. There\’s one role that struggles to be filled. In \”Confessions from the Ladies Room\” it was Rachel\’s gay porn star husband that was finally (and so ably) filled by Jeff Rohr. In \”Sordid Lives\” it was the part …
