Saturday, March 29, 2008

Atlanta run of ‘The Little Dog Laughed’ exposes complicated Hollywood closets

When out actor/director Alan Kilpatrick read Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Little Dog Laughed” last year, it wasn’t just the laughs and razor-sharp dialogue that impressed him. It was the play’s timeliness.

A satire about life in and out of the closet in Hollywood, “The Little Dog Laughed” debuts in Atlanta next week at Theatre in the Square, with Kilpatrick at the helm.

The play’s tale of a gay actor trying to hide his sexual orientation is especially topical today. Mitch (Chad Martin) is an actor on the rise who meets male hustler Alex (Ben Reed) via an escort service. Alex has a girlfriend but is wrestling with his sexuality.

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