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Adrian Ryan is a Stranger senior contributing writer and nightlife columnist. He has been writing for The Stranger since late 1997, and he’s pretty sure he still hasn’t been paid for some really early stuff (cough it up, Everett True!). He’s written for every section of The Stranger, including three columns: It’s All True (1999–2000), Celebrity I Saw U (2000–2007), and, currently, The Homosexual Agenda (2009–this very second). He has written close to infinity words on celebrity, life, and gayness, and his writings have appeared in many things, including The Stranger’s Guide to Seattle, Mommie’s Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood and Cherry Pie, a bunch of stuff he forgets, and his very own Way Too Gay Seattle Survival Guide.

Theater Articles by Adrian Ryan

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  • Theater

    Grey Gardens Is Missing Its Heart

    Grey Gardens Is Missing Its Heart
    Posted on 03/27/2013
  • Theater

    The Hardest Working Man in 'Mo Business

    Jinkx Monsoon Is the Best Performer in Seattle
    Posted on 05/11/2011
  • Theater

    Get Off My Lawn!

    Interrupting Bill Cosby While He Writes a Eulogy for His High-School Basketball Coach
    Posted on 06/17/2010
  • Theater

    Black Nativity Goes... Somewhere Else

    Black Nativity Leaves Intiman
    Posted on 12/17/2009
  • Theater

    Billie Jean: The Legend: The Creamy Crème de le Crème of Good-Bad Theater

    Billie Jean: The Legend: The Creamy Crème de le Crème of Good-Bad Theater
    Posted on 09/24/2009
  • Theater

    The Twilight Zone: LIVE!

    Posted on 07/23/2009
  • Theater

    Cowards Versus Drag Queens

    ACT Theatre’s Bipartite, Very Gay Noël Coward Extravaganza
    Posted on 06/26/2008
  • Theater

    The Boy Mike Experience!

    The Rise, Fall, and Rise of a Drag Queen
    Posted on 03/13/2008
  • Theater

    Evil People Never Get a Happy Ending

    Reviews of Birdie Blue, The Big Friendly Giant, and Dina Martina
    Posted on 11/29/2007
  • Theater

    Snorting and Aborting

    The School for Scandal, Killer Prom at Murder High, and More
    Posted on 06/14/2007
  • Theater

    Capitol Hill High

    World Weary 101
    Posted on 02/16/2006
  • Theater

    Hyperion? Josh? Are You There?

    How I Destroyed a Promising Career in Theater
    Posted on 12/29/2005
  • Theater

    On Stage

    Googlewhack, Scarlatina, and a Baghdad T&A Cabaret
    Posted on 12/08/2005
  • Theater

    On Stage

    The Haint is a rarity in fringe theater: Subtle, substantial, and unpretentious, it's just a good story told by a great performer. Despite a few technical glitches, creator Troy Mink breezes through the brisk production (at one hour, it's just a little too short) with equal parts Southern snark and grace, animating a whole town's worth of
    Posted on 10/20/2005
  • Theater

    On Stage

    As a burlesque of ambulance-chasing, scandal-hungry journalists, The Front Page is fantastic. As a piece of comic theater, it's middling—the show bears the stamp of an overwhelmed director.
    Posted on 10/06/2005
  • Theater

    On Stage

    Every once in a great while, a play comes along that reminds us why we've been dragging ourselves through a swamp of mediocre shows. Frozen is one of those plays. It's a deceptively conventional work, without an
    Posted on 09/29/2005
  • Theater

    On Stage

    The puppets upstage the plot in Cathay, a trio of stories about Xi'an, China. The first involves an ancient king and his lowborn consort, Lady Yang, whose greedy brother ruins the kingdom. With rebellion among the citizens and barbarians
    Posted on 09/22/2005
  • Theater

    Queen of Kings

    Sarah Rudinoff Is Bursting with Talent, but After Ubu, Will She Ever Get Laid Again?
    Posted on 05/13/2004
  • Theater

    Eureka!

    Extropia Is a Theatrical Experiment That Hits the Jackpot
    Posted on 09/03/2003
  • Theater

    Just Amazing

    Wordless Extropia Gives Musical Comedies a Good Name
    Posted on 08/28/2003

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