Off-Broadway's Gay Marriage Plays to Feature Work from Neil LaBute, Moises Kaufman, Paul Rudnick and More

Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays is set to play off-Broadway's Minetta Lane Theatre beginning October 18, with opening night to follow on October 24. Directed by Stuart Ross, the show will feature nine short plays from writers including Neil LaBute, Moises Kaufman, Paul Rudnick and Doug Wright. Standing on Ceremony will feature a rotating cast of actors to be announced shortly.

LaBute’s contribution, Strange Fruit, tells the story of two men in love whose plans to get married “the old-fashioned way” are stymied when reality rears its ugly head. Rudnick’s The Gay Agenda examines the plea of an Ohio homemaker and member of Focus on the Family, while Kaufman’s London Mosquitoes follows a widower trying to make sense of the death of his long-time lover.

Standing on Ceremony also includes The Revision by Jordan Harrison (where two men might rewrite their vows to more accurately reflect the limited options available to a gay couple), This Flight Tonight by Wendy MacLeod (which follows the early stages of a lesbian marriage in Iowa), On Facebook by Doug Wright (adapted from an actual Facebook thread chronicling a fight among friends on the subject of gay marriage), White Marriage by Jeffrey Hatcher (in which a wife and husband discuss his “gay” sense of humor) and This Marriage Is Saved by Joe Keenan (a satiric vignette about a disgraced evangelist and his wife who insist that his extra marital flings has only strengthened their marriage.)

Conceived by Brian Shnipper, Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays began as a series of benefit events in Los Angeles.