Afterglow
Off Broadway, The Loft at the Davenport Theatre
Reviewed by Dan Dinero
BOTTOM LINE: Erotic excitement gives way to ménage à trois messiness in this single-issue play.
Open relationships are hardly a new thing, especially among gay men, but they are certainly talked about more now, especially in mixed company. Whether polyamory itself is actually on the rise is more difficult to say, but the potential trickiness that comes with opening one’s heart to more than just one person makes the subject a natural fit for dramatic conflict. Witness writer-director-producer S. Asher Gelman’s Afterglow...
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The Festival runs February 13 - March 5.
2 Theaters, 3 Weeks, 12 Days, 30 independent theater companies, and over 150 performances.
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