At the beginning of The Tricky Part, Martin Moran — that is, actor David Spencer — comes to the stage, casually reminding audience members to switch off their cell phones and he immediately sets the audience at ease. There is an air of improvisation. However, for the next 80 minutes, Moran’s monologue is anything but [...]

A Mexican documentary from 2006 about the Muxes (pronounced “mooshays”), a group of effeminate homosexual men whose socially defined roles within the Zapotec culture were established well in advance of the modern gay rights movement, will be the first offering in the fifth annual Damn These Heels Pride Film Festival, sponsored by the Salt Lake [...]

Plan-B will close out its 2007-2008 season with the Utah premiere of Martin Moran’s The Tricky Part, a one-man production which tells the author’s experience as a teenager who had a sexual relationship with an older man. Moran’s play, written 30 years after the fact, was developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab. The play won [...]