Productions & Events featuring Jay Paul Skelton

Meet the young Will Shakespeare – a strong willed, impulsive young man with a fiery tongue, an eye for the town tarts and a penchant for poaching. At 19 years old, he is struggling between his role as a husband and father and the desire to follow his dreams. Fate finds Will in the form of a roaming troupe of actors who tempt him away from his familiar security toward a destiny that will prove greater than his hopes can conceive.

A theatrical celebration of the life and work of gay poet Frank O’Hara, the center of a dazzling array of painters, dancers and writers that exploded onto the New York scene in the 1950s. Using poems letters and stories by and about O’Hara, TO LIVE AS VARIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE captures a vibrant moment in time through the exuberant eye of this wonderfully accessible and influential poet.