“Texas Sodomy” is one of the best plays of the year – Drew Droege a revelation in dramatic role

Saw Texas Sodomy at Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks Sunday night and let me tell you, it is one of the best plays I’ve seen in LA this year and it has become quite a hot ticket.

Kudos to writer-director Howard Skora and a first-rate cast led by a superb Drew Droege in what, I think, is the performance of his career – so far. I’ve seen Drew in many shows – mostly comedy – and he’s always good and often great. While there are comedic moments (his character is labeled sassy by the cops early on), the material gives Drew an opportunity to show such dramatic range and he delivers brilliantly.

The writing is superb and the play never drags even as it tells the story behind one of the most important civil rights decisions in modern American history.

Droege portrays hospital Lab Tech John Lawrence who is arrested one drunken night, along with his best friend’s 31-year-old African American boyfriend Tyrone Garner (Jabari), under Texas’s “Homosexual Conduct.”

What begins as a drunken arrest soon grows into a constitutional battle stretching from Houston to Washington, D.C. Texas Sodomy follows two ordinary working-class men and Lane Lewis (Matt McConkey)—a Houston activist and bartender who becomes their closest ally and protector—as they join an unlikely coalition of lawyers and activists in a pivotal chapter of the American civil rights movement.

Rounding out the first-rate ensemble in multiple roles are Dylan Vox, Celeste Pechous, Tom Trudgeon, and Aaron Tone. The play runs through October 24!