Wolf Continues Asking & Telling at San Fran's New Conservatory, Aug. 3-20 | Playbill

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News Wolf Continues Asking & Telling at San Fran's New Conservatory, Aug. 3-20 Obie Award winner Marc Wolf is Asking & Telling in another locale - San Francisco. After successful stints with his one man show in Washington, DC, and New York City, Wolf brings Another American to the New Conservatory Theatre Center Aug. 3-20. Tony-nominated director Joe Mantello (Love! Valour! Compassion!) helms the show.

Obie Award winner Marc Wolf is Asking & Telling in another locale - San Francisco. After successful stints with his one man show in Washington, DC, and New York City, Wolf brings Another American to the New Conservatory Theatre Center Aug. 3-20. Tony-nominated director Joe Mantello (Love! Valour! Compassion!) helms the show.

To create his piece, Wolf interviewed straight, gay and lesbian members of the military services whose careers span World War II to the current armed forces, as well as civil rights lawyers, judges, professors and politicians. Their words, edited and cut, are used verbatim as monologues in Wolf's work. Among the characters are civilian Charles Moskos, Northwestern sociology professor and author of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, a lesbian activist desperate to be reinstated, "Mary Ann," a gay Vietnam veteran who remembers cutting his fatigues into hot pants, and a soldier testifying against lifting the ban on gays before the Senate.

Before a successful OBIE-nominated run at the New Group's Off-Broadway space Dec. 7, 1999-Feb. 2, 2000, Wolf has staged Asking & Telling at New York Stage & Film, Provincetown Repertory Theatre, Dixon Place and Mabou Mines. His Off-Broadway roles have included Ray and Kevin in The Party, Max in Bent and Platonov in Wild Honey.

Mantello most recently directed Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, bash [sic] and Paula Vogel's The Mineola Twins. Other credits include Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Proposals, Snakebit and the film version of Love! Valor! Compassion!.

Tickets are $30-$18. The New Conservatory Theatre Center is located at 25 Van Ness Avenue near Market Street. For reservations, call (415) 861 8972. The New Conservatory Theatre is on the web at http://www.nctcsf.org. -- By Christine Ehren

 
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