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class=entry-title>Christine Howey Traces Her Transgender Journey in ‘Exact
Change’</H1>
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already crossed a gender line. Now this northeast Ohio critic is crossing
another barrier to become a playwright/performer.</STRONG></P></DIV>
<P
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theatre has long been a safe haven for the LGBT community, on both sides of the
proscenium arch.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space><STRONG> </STRONG></SPAN>One reason is that the
stage is often the first and frequently the only place to reflect, endorse or
jumpstart social change. In fact, a new breed of plays about life in the LBGT
community is slowly replacing the necessarily political and typically tragic
plot points found in such groundbreaking 1980s and ’90s plays as<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM
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Normal Heart</EM>,<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM
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Song Trilogy</EM><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM
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in America</EM>.</P>
<P
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like Geoffrey Nauffts’s <EM
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Fall</EM>, for instance, simply place the everyday concerns of Americans in
a queer context, while Alexi Kaye Campbell’s <EM
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Pride</EM><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>shows the contrast
between life for gay men in the ’50s and today. Modern musicals like<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM
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Boots</EM><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>serve to support the
normalization of nontraditional gender identification—and do so with a
candy coating.</P>
<P
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things are changing. But not nearly fast enough for Christine Howey.</P>
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more, go to: <A
href="http://www.americantheatre.org/2015/06/02/christine-howey-traces-her-transgender-journey-in-exact-change/">http://www.americantheatre.org/2015/06/02/christine-howey-traces-her-transgender-journey-in-exact-change/</A></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>