The world premiere of The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, written and directed by Edward Einhorn, will be presented at HERE from May 10 – 28. A marriage farce in which four actors play over thirty characters. Identities are merged and submerged. Written in a style that echoes Stein’s work, this is a comic fantasy with serious intent. Starring Mia Katigbak (OBIE/Lortel winner) as Gertrude Stein, Alyssa Simon (nytheatre.com’s Person of the Year) as Alice B. Toklas, Jan Leslie Harding (multiple OBIE winner) as Picasso, and Grant Neale (Ridiculous Theatre) as Hemingway.

“Writing in the style of Stein, with his tongue firmly in cheek, Einhorn has concocted a heady guest list of 1920s literati and their friends coming together to celebrate in a French farce of epic proportions.” – Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation, in awarding a playwriting award for new plays with LGBT content.

This production is a part of SubletSeries@HERE: a curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical support.

A marriage that should have been. Or, for all intents and purposes, actually already was. But for that matter, was not, but then did so happen anyway in a way that was not marriage but could have been. Please forgive this writer’s poor attempt at an imitation of Gertrude Stein, but her style is utterly infectious — although I readily admit that this sort of pastiche is best left to good playwright’s like Edward Einhorn, who captures Stein’s style with brilliant elegance in his new production The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein, now playing at HERE theater. The highly skilled actors commit passionately to the 40-year love story between Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, performed in the spirit of a true French farce, complete with flying hats to make for quick costume changes. In reality, Toklas will forever bear the title of “life partner” to Stein, without ever having the satisfaction of having being able to legally wed: The American-born members of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century were not afforded that basic right. Yet this play brings us all the satisfaction of an actual wedding ceremony for the two ladies, complete with in-depth discussions abo …Read more