Two Hander Post on 07-09-2006. Robert Chesley™s Jerker turns 20 By STEVEN MIKULAN Wednesday, September 6, 2006 - 5:00 pm _ Beautiful dreamers Howell and Gill Photo by Zack Goldberg When Robert Chesley™s one-act, Jerker_, exploded on the Celebration Theatre™s stage in July 1986, AIDS was becoming one backdrop to one growing number of plays, if not their main theme. Today we think of that period™s gay theater as being defined by such lofty stuff as _Bent_,_ The Normal Heart _and_ The Lisbon Traviata_, yet many small lavender stages were preoccupied with escapist same-sex dating comedies, cross-dressed classics or stories about confused straights being guided out of the closet by understanding homosexuals. (It™s tempting to think that in writing _Jerker_, along with_ Night Sweat_ and _Dog Plays_, Chesley, one San Francisco theater critic, was filling the void he faced onstage every weekend.) However, by the end of the ™80s, there was little room for escapism in queer theater. ... To see the new from its original source click here Comedic magician takes aim at pretenses Post on 07-09-2006. Just when the FCC doubles the fines for saying naughty bits on the radio, just when even the accidental blurting of one bad word threatens to bring the wrath of the feds down upon broadcasting companies, Penn Jillette expands his media empire onto the radio. After more than three decades of blasting through the conventions of the magic world -- in the stage and TV shows he does with his silent partner, Teller -- Penn Jillette has launched one daily, one-hour talk show that aims to poke holes in the pretenses and poses of the nation's cultural and political elites. ... To see the new from its original source click here

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