Queer Theater Project

01/07/2026

This picture is said to be the only painting of Christopher Marlowe; however, it is only by tradition, as we don't know for certain. I look forward to seeing you at our reading of the play Kit Marlowe.

11/25/2025

Save the Date: January 28th at 6:30 PM, we will meet at the Jim Toy Center to discuss and read from the play "Kit Marlowe" by David Grimm.

"Hungry for adventure and a way to make his mark, poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe became a spy for a dark wing of the British government and seals his hero Sir Walter Raleigh's fate and his own. Set in the seedy underworld of Elizabethan England, the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Kit Marlowe--playwright, poet, spy, and sexual outlaw (Q***r)--charts the ambitions of youth in a cold and unforgiving world." (Source: Dramatists Play Service.)

You can buy the book here:

Dramatists Play Service, one of the premier play-licensing and theatrical publishing agencies in the world, was formed in 1936 to foster national opportunities for playwrights by publishing affordable editions of their plays and handling the performance rights to these works. DPS offers an extensive...

10/08/2025

I've decided to postpone the play reading scheduled for October, as I haven't had time to prepare for it. Given the holidays, the next play reading will be in January. If anyone is interested in volunteering to help out or co-facilitating, I look forward to hearing from you. You can email me directly at [email protected]. Thanks, Kevin

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09/21/2025

Tomorrow (Monday) at 7 PM is our meeting to discuss and read Sagittarius Ponderosa. If you don't have the play yet, you can download it here: https://www.theatricalrights.com/show/sagittarius-ponderosa/

It is not a very long play, so you could be a last-minute read. I hope to see you there.

Archer (still Angela to his family) doesn’t want to move back to his childhood home in eastern Oregon when his father falls ill. But at night under the oldest Ponderosa Pine, he meets a stranger who knows the history of the forests and the sadness of losing endangered things. As Archer accepts big...

09/16/2025

The Play Reading Group was established in March, offering an opportunity to discuss and perform group readings of dramatic literature that encompass a wide range of q***r experiences. Some incredible Q***r Literature is hidden in theater scripts, something that is not commonly read by people who are not directly engaged in theater.

In March, we read Vieux Carré, a lesser-known semi-autobiographical play by Tennessee Williams. In April, we explored Jane Chambers' Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, a landmark piece of le***an dramatic literature.

We begin our meetings by discussing the play and our impressions; however, if you haven't obtained the play or read it, don't let that stop you from attending. We then bring the script to life by conducting readings and providing opportunities for attendees to play different roles and explore the interactions between the various characters of the play.

Join us to explore luminaries like Tennessee Williams and Jane Chambers, as well as discover exciting new playwrights like M.J. Kaufman, the author of Sagittarius Ponderosa, which we will be exploring at the Jim Toy Community Center on September 22 at 7 PM.

*The Q***r Theater Project is an umbrella name that the Jim Toy Community Center has adopted to encourage experiences around Q***r Theater. The Play Reading Group is the first of these meetings; however, we encourage other groups to explore different facets of Q***r Theater.

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09/04/2025

Please Join Theatre Nova and its New Play Festival on September 11-14. Four of the plays have Q***r charachters of authors. You can follow this link to purchase tickets. Support Local Theater!

Info on our annual Michigan Playwrights' Festival

07/28/2025

I wanted to share this information about M.J. Kaufman, the exciting new playwright whose play, Sagittarius Ponderosa, we will be exploring in September.

MJ Kaufman is a playwright and screenwriter from Portland, OR/Multnomah Territory currently living in New York City/Lenapehoking. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theater, WP Theater, National Asian American Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, C**t Coeur, Williamstown Theater Festival, InterAct....

07/22/2025

I am thrilled to announce that we have selected a day of the month for our future meetings. Our next meeting, for Sagittarius Ponderosa, will be on Monday, September 22, at 7 PM. We will continue to meet on the fourth Monday of each month thereafter. The meetings will continue to be at the Jim Toy Community Center

05/18/2025

The reading of Sagittarius Ponderosa has been rescheduled until September. Summer has arrived, so more people are out of town, soaking up the sunshine outdoors. The Date and Time for September will be posted later. Please look for upcoming articles in the Jim Toy Center newsletter about the QTP and September's play.

04/18/2025

"The MJ Kaufman (he/they), author of Sagittarius Ponderosa, is a writer from Oregon currently living in Brooklyn. A few years ago, they founded Trans Lab, a fellowship for Transgender and Gender nonconforming (TGNC) Theater Artists with Kit Yan. Their plays have been seen at Public Theater, WP Theater, InterAct, C**t Coeur, National Asian American Theater Company, and in Russia and Australia, among others. They have received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, The New Museum, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. They are a graduate of Yale School of Drama, and they have also written for Netflix. They like to bike, cook, and play with their dog Milkshake." (Source: The Metheun Drama Book of Trans Plays.)

04/18/2025

Sagittarius Ponderosa: "Archer is not out to his family, but when his father falls ill, he has to move back to his childhood home in central Oregon. At night, under the oldest Ponderosa Pine, he meets a stranger who knows the history of the forest and the sadness of losing endangered things. As Archer accepts big changes in his family, he discovers the power of names, and the histories they make and mask. Saggittarius Ponderosa is a play about changing names, love positions, and tilling up the soil to make room for new growth.