March 22-April 1

MeX Theater at the Kentucky Center
501 W. Main St. • 562-7800
pandoraprods.org
$16-$18; 7:30 p.m. (plus 2:30 p.m. March 31)

Do they have drag shows at that temperamental bar you like? Can I borrow your tutu for the temperamental pride parade? I’m so glad we finally got to see Rachel Berry’s temperamental dads. In the 1950s, if you sneezed and it sounded too much like “I like other men,” you’d get beat up or sent to therapy to be “cured” of your gayness, so you’d have to speak in code. Pandora Productions’ latest offering, Jon Marans’ Drama Desk Award-winning piece “The Temperamentals,” tells the story of Harry Hay and Rudi Gernreich, a pair of lovers in the pre-Stonewall era who face the ruthless homosexual persecution of the time and establish the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations in the United States. —Jane Mattingly