Southern Baptist Sissies at Empire Theatre

Stage Scene LA - Recommended

"...Only Del Shores, the author of Sordid Lives, could take as serious a subject as religion-based internalized homophobia-and make it as laugh-out-loud hilarious as Southern Baptist Sissies is.  At the same time, Shores' fifth play-following Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got The Will'), Daughters Of The Lone Star State, Cheatin', and Sordid Lives-doesn't skirt the drama that its subject matter inspires. The playwright had come out as a gay man only several years before Sissies' 2000 premiere, and like its character Mark, he was using his talents as a writer to deal with the anger that fuels Southern Baptist Sissies."