by Harrison Scott Key @ http://www.worldmagblog.comIf you're in New York this Easter weekend, you might check out Matthew Passion, a new "musical linking Christ’s passion with that of the hate-crime victim Matthew Shepard, the gay college student who was beaten and left for dead in Laramie, Wyo., in 1998."
It is brave of [the director] to attempt something so openly spiritual, ambitious and naïve; he is seeking to establish a religious orthodoxy that can co-exist with a gay sensibility. But the play is not quite sure whether it wants to be camp or an Easter pageant: it has echoes of “Angels in America” without going so openly over the top, and at times seems to be a gay version of a biblical greeting card.Who will be more confused at this, the church, or the gay community?
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