Some culture wars that might seem won in the U.S. are still raging in certain pockets of the nation. Less than fifty miles outside any major city where members of the LGBTQ community feel free to live out loud, a closeted gay teacher might find himself on the front lines battling to be his mild-mannered self.
Small-town high school math teacher Ricky Alleman (Kyle Sherman) is thrust into just such a battle in Adam Gwon’s poignant musical drama All the World’s a Stage.
A chamber piece for a four-person ensemble and a five-piece orchestra, the show fits tidily into Signature’s intimate Ark Theatre, where Matthew Gardiner’s staging captures the close, quiet tension pulsing through the story.
