Pride House

New York City’s oldest and longest producing LGBTQIA+ theater company, TOSOS, will launch its ground-breaking 50^th Anniversary Season with the world premiere of Pride House, a new play by Chris Weikel. 

Igor Goldin (Yank!, With Glee) will direct a cast of thirteen, including London Carlisle, Gail Dennison, Dontonio DeMarco, Desmond Dutcher, Jessica DiSalvo, Jamie Heinlein, Alex Herrera, Aaron Kaplan, Jake Mendes, Patrick Porter, Raquel Sciacca, and Tom Souhrada.

It’s 1938 in the remote beach community of Cherry Grove on Fire Island, and Beatrice Farrar is planning a party for her colorful, flamboyant friends from the New York theatre scene who are visiting. As the guests descend on her summer home, Pride House, she hopes it will be smooth sailing. When several of the “family folk,” the more conservative Long Islanders who vacation in Cherry Grove with their children, arrive for the festivities, things take a decidedly stormy turn. Literally. Little does Beatrice realize, but it is the eve of the great hurricane of 1938, an event which changes Fire Island in ways that reverberate to the present day.   

Fifteen performances will be staged Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7pm from January 18-February 10, 2024, at The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street in New York City’s TriBeCa neighborhood. Opening Night is January 20, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.

The running time is two hours and thirty minutes, including intermission.