That comment serves as a playful warning shot from the dramatist, who goes on to compare the artistic and sexual evolutions of two New York artists-Chris (Evan Johnson), a wayward gay white teen arriving in New York to act in the mid-1980s, and Peter (Stephen Tyrone Williams), a black painter visiting today’s Berlin.īradshaw’s alternating eras and mirrored narratives are standard new-play conventions these days. “I love honesty in the theater,” says Chris, a 14-year-old aspiring thespian, in the first moments of Burning, a graphic and often funny new drama by Thomas Bradshaw. A contempo Frank Wedekind: Barrett Doss and Stephen Tyrone Williams Monique Carboni
