Take Me Out

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Take Me Out is a Tony Award–winning play by Richard Greenberg that explores homophobia and racism in professional baseball after a star player comes out as gay.

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Take Me Out (Of Myself) 1
Take Me Out (revival) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf play
2022RevivalCity New York City NERFINISHED
2022RevivalNotableCastMember Jesse Tyler Ferguson NERFINISHED
Jesse Williams NERFINISHED
2022RevivalTheatre Hayes Theater NERFINISHED
author Richard Greenberg NERFINISHED
awardReceived Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play NERFINISHED
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (revival production) NERFINISHED
Tony Award for Best Play NERFINISHED
broadwayDebutCity New York City NERFINISHED
broadwayDebutDate 2003
broadwayDebutTheatre Walter Kerr Theatre NERFINISHED
centralConflict locker-room tensions after a player comes out as gay
centralTheme masculinity
prejudice in sports culture
public image versus private identity
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstPerformanceCity London NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceDate 2002
firstPerformanceLocation Donmar Warehouse NERFINISHED
genre drama
hasCharacter Darren Lemming NERFINISHED
Kippy Sunderstrom NERFINISHED
Mason Marzac NERFINISHED
Shane Mungitt NERFINISHED
language English
mainSubject homophobia
professional baseball
racism
sexual orientation
narrativeFocus a star baseball player who comes out as gay
notableRevival 2022 Broadway revival
setting Major League Baseball-style professional team
contemporary United States
subjectOf academic analysis on race and sexuality in American theatre
critical discussions of LGBTQ+ representation in sports

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Franz Ferdinand breakthroughSingle Take Me Out
Joe Mantello directed Take Me Out
Momentum hasTrack Take Me Out
this entity surface form: Take Me Out (Of Myself)
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre notableProduction Take Me Out
this entity surface form: Take Me Out (revival)
Denis O'Hare notableWork Take Me Out
Franz Ferdinand notableWork Take Me Out
Joe Mantello notableWork Take Me Out
Jesse Tyler Ferguson performedIn Take Me Out
Dominic Fumusa theatreWork Take Me Out