After successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, the award-winning production of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi returns to the New York stage!

Corpus Christi will be performed in honor of Matthew Shepard, whose brutal murder occurred just twenty four hours prior to the play’s world premiere in 1998.

And the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center is grateful to LA-based 108 Productions for choosing us as a beneficiary of the Opening Night Benefit on Monday, October 13, 2008.

Originally opening ten years ago at the Manhattan Theatre Club to intense protest and bomb threats, the play’s message was lost amidst the rancor. The play is a retelling of the Jesus story, updated to 1950s Corpus Christi, Texas.  Conservative Christians were not so happy about its depiction of a "gay Jesus."

More recently, 108 Productions’ Corpus Christi has won praise internationally for its bold re-imagining of this tale of faith and spirituality. Longtime friend of the Center, and Corpus Christi playwright has said that he sought to “include the LGBT community at the table of faith and to reclaim our right to explore the divinity in all of us.”

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