“Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man”
Yes, that’s what it’s called, and it’s coming to Fayetteville
TheaterMania says, “Sex Tips is one of the best date-night shows you'll see this year. Breathlessly entertaining! Uproariously funny! Hysterically titillating!” Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center will host the national tour of the Off-Broadway hit comedy Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man January 26-28. This hilarious romantic comedy was written by Matt Murphy and based on the best-selling book of the same title.
Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man takes the audience on a hilarious and wild ride where no topic is taboo and the insider ‘tips’ come straight from the source: a gay man. The play is set at a local university auditorium where the English Department holds its monthly “meet the authors” event.
Robyn is the shy and studious moderator of the event and this month’s featured author is Dan Anderson who wrote Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man. The third character is a hunky stage assistant of Eastern European descent, Stefan. Thwarting Robyn’s attempts to moderate a scholarly discussion of the book, Dan aims to entertain those in attendance with a highly theatrical, audience-interactive sex tip seminar.
Will Stefan’s muscles be used for more than moving heavy scenery? Will the power of Dan's tips prove too titillating for even Robyn to resist? As with everything at this event...that is for Dan to know, and you to find out!
Sex Tips is a smash Off-Broadway hit in New York City, where it opened in February 9, 2014. The production is based on the book Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man written by Dan Anderson and Maggie Berman. First published in 1997, the book championed the straight girl/gay guy friendship in mainstream pop culture and instantly became a national best seller.
The book was praised by the New York Daily News for “offering witty—and yes, explicit—descriptions of all manner of how-to’s;” by The New York Post as "straightforward and saucy . . . a play-by-play account of how to make the most of every moment;" and by Salon.com as “a cannily entertaining romp through the nuts and bolts of sex from the male perspective.”
The play has received the same adulation from the media with Michael Musto for OUT Magazine giving the show, “Two wet thumbs up!” Broadway World calls the show “a night of fun and exhausting laughter that makes you feel good in all the wrong places” and the academics from Columbia Spectator call it “hysterical and better than sex!”
Presented by Matt Murphy and Shawn Nightingale, Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man has scenic design by Luke Cantarella, costume design by Tilly Grimes, lighting design by Brian Tovar, and video and sound design by Randy Blair.
Tickets to Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man are $30 and are on sale online at tickets.waltonartscenter.org, by phone at (479) 443-5600, or in person at the Walton Arts Center box office, 495 W. Dickson St., in Fayetteville.
“Sex Tips” features adult humor and is not suitable for children.
Copyright 2017 The Gayly – January 12, 2017 @ 3:40 p.m.