StageQ (sometimes erroneously written Stage Q) is a

theatre company Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

based in

Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-lar ...

. It is a community theatre troupe, and its casts with few exceptions are all-volunteer. Since its inception in 2001 StageQ has been particularly dedicated to the performance of gay-themed plays and works by gay and lesbian playwrights (the ''Q'' suggesting the word "queer"). It was one of many organizations within the city of Madison selected in 2004 for criticism by the city's Catholic Bishop,

Robert C. Morlino Robert Charles Morlino S.J. (December 31, 1946 – November 24, 2018) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of Diocese of Madison in Wisconsin from 2003 until his death. He was the bishop of Diocese of Hele ...

, as existing below a religious "moral minimum" within a city that has "virtually no public morality." In 2006 StageQ was the recipient of an Annual Achievement Award given by OutReach, Madison's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community center. In 2012 the ''Isthmus'' selected StageQ's theater production "Queer Shorts on Stage Q"''(sic)'' as its favorite theater production of the year.

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External links

* {{Official website, https://www.stageq.org/ LGBT theatre in the United States LGBT organizations based in the United States LGBT theatre companies