Life's a Drag
Dito van Reigersberg's cabaret homecoming at GALA Hispanic Theatre
Interview by Will O'Bryan
Published on December 4, 2008
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Dito van Reigersberg has made a name for himself in Philadelphia, a founder of that city's Pig Iron Theatre Company. Pig Iron performances have earned the company an Obie Award and countless Barrymore Awards from Philadelphia's Theatre Alliance.
Then there is van Reigersberg's own Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret, named for his cheeky tribute to the maven of American dance, the late Martha Graham, at whose school he once studied. That show, recurring monthly, won ''Best Drag Act 2006,'' as voted by readers of Philadelphia's City Paper.
But before he was the toast of Philly, van Reigersberg was a D.C.-area denizen. Next week, he'll return to those roots, taking the stage at GALA Hispanic Theatre. This won't be an encore of Pig Iron's acclaimed Poet in New York, about gay Spanish poet Frederic Garcia Lorca who was killed in the Spanish Civil War and which put van Reigersberg onstage at D.C. Warehouse Theater a few years ago. Instead, he brings us Martha. And if Philadelphia audiences are to be believed, we're lucky to have her.