What’s in a name? If you’re the new comedy Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party, a whole lot. The show—a play with dancing—officially returned to New York on August 11, celebrating its opening night at off-Broadway's Acorn Theatre after a hit run at the New York International Fringe Festival back in 2009. The show ...

It's kind of hard to miss a title like the one belonging to off-Broadway's Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party, the new play (with dance, obviously) that brings vaudeville and political commentary to the same stage. Opening August 11 at the Acorn Theatre, the play follows three different perspectives after a small-town Christmas pageant outs Honest Abe ...

It's one of those success stories you've gotta love. After an acclaimed, sell-out run during 2009's New York International Fringe Festival, the political mash-up comedy known as Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party is back, this time in a full off-Broadway production at the Acorn Theatre. Choreographed, highly stylized and downright outrageous, the play, written by ...

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The title may have been the first thing that caught theatergoers' eyes, but it was the content and execution that made Aaron Loeb’s uproarious, topical comedy Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party one of the stand-out hits of the 2009 NY International Fringe Festival. Naturally, when we heard the show was being picked up for ...

Broadway vets Arnie Burton (The 39 Steps, The Temperamentals, Mere Mortals) and Stephanie Pope Caffey (Chicago, Fosse, Smokey Joe's Café) are among the complete cast announced for the off-Broadway premiere of Aaron Loeb’s Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party. Described as a politically charged mash-up comedy, the show will begin performances on July 27 at the Acorn ...

Tickets are now on sale for the politically probing mash-up comedy, Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party. Written by Aaron Loeb and directed by Chris Smith, the show received its New York premiere last summer at the Fringe Festival, where it was awarded Outstanding Play. Previews begin at off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre on July 27, 2010.

In Abraham Lincoln ...