Ball Games

Take Me Out is the story of a major league baseball player’s coming out. Written by Richard Greenberg, it won a Tony Award for Best Play and it was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. When it debuted in 2002, there were no openly gay baseball players. There still aren’t.

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More About

• Darren Lemming
• Richard Greenberg
• Pulitzer Prize Committee
• Tony Awards

Take Me Out – at the Rising Action Theatre through October 4th – centers on Darren Lemming, a center fielder and a “god among baseball players.” At the peak of his career, he blithely assumes his teammates will accept him. But they don’t – and they make that clear to him while showering and standing around naked in towels. The team’s locker room becomes a moist, homoerotic forum for heady discussions of sexuality, race, and class. We can only hope for some sort of climax in the steam room this Friday at 8 p.m. Rising Action Theatre is located at 840 E. Oakland Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. Tickets start at $30. Visit risingactiontheatre.com.
Sept. 4-Oct. 4, 8 p.m., 2009