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Posted inTheater and Dance

Raw, Real and Relevant: Desert Rose Playhouse’s Beautiful Thing’ Tells a Story of Young, Forbidden Love

Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing was first performed in London back in 1993, when revealing one’s homosexuality was much scarier, but the play’s themes of forbidden love and the struggle for self-acceptance seem just as germane today—and Desert Rose Playhouse’s current production of the play is thought-provoking and effective. The story centers around 16-year-old Jamie and […]

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