It’s a faraway age of hope and inclusivity; in other words, it’s 2015. When a tight-knit circle of married gays and lesbians – comfy in the new mainstream – sees themselves through the eyes of their rakish transgender pal, it’s clear that the march toward progress is anything but unified. With stinging satire and acute compassion, Jordan Harrison’s pointed comedy charts the breakdown of empathy that happens when we think our rights are secure, revealing conservative hearts where you’d least expect.

Sparks fly between friends and lovers as gay and trans rights are discussed in Log Cabin, Jordan Harrison’s superb play about LGBTQ politics. Showing at Playwrights Horizons, directed by the great Pam MacKinnon, and just in time for Pride Month, this dark comedy delivers very contemporary commentary on same-sex marriage rights, social and economic privilege, and the horribly lagging rights of trans people. Pam (Cindy Cheung) and Jules (Dolly Wells), a well-to-do lesbian couple living in a posh apartment (they have a rooftop garden!) in Brooklyn decide to have a child using a sperm donor. Their friends, similarly well-off gay couple, Chris (Phillip James Brannon) and Ezra (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), who had been struggling with the decision of having kids of their own (one wants them, the other is not so sure), now feel the pressure from this singular event which forces them into a sort of reckoning. Enter Henry (Ian Harvie), Ezra’s high school friend and prom date. Henry used to be Helen, now he’s a trans man — hormones, hipster beard and all. The two reunite at Pam and Jules’ place where he brings his 26-year-old girlfriend, Myna (Talene Monahon), a somewhat flighty Millennial (the f …Read more