Balls, bats and brawn: Broadway’s ‘Take Me Out’ hits a home run
Welcome to Curtain Call, our mostly queer take on the latest theater openings on Broadway and beyond.Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) and Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy) co-star in a revival of Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg’s Tony Award-winning play about how a major league baseball player’s coming out triggers a series of events.
There’s been plenty of buzz around the full-frontal locker room and shower scenes, but the biggest reveal is the continued relevance of LGBTQ representation in professional sports.
With witty and rancorous viewpoints, Greenberg’s densely packed script is like a changeup pitch — methodical and purposefully deceptive in its captivating construct.
Playwright Richard Greenberg loves words. And throughout his 30-plus-year career on Broadway, actors from Julia Roberts and Judith Light to Paul Rudd and Mario Cantone have savored or spewed them, depending on what the dramatic moment demands.
