Lips Together, Teeth Apart

About the show

A gay community on Fire Island provides an unlikely setting for two straight couples, discovered lounging poolside and staring out to sea. Sally, married to Sam, a New Jersey contractor, has inherited the house from her brother, who died of AIDS. Sam’s hyperkinetic sister Chloe and her smug, aristocratic husband John have come out for the Fourth of July weekend.

Through monologues unheard by the others, the characters reveal a desperate sense of individual isolation. The only people these four find more alien are the gay men partying in the houses on either side of them. As they divert themselves from their own mortality with food, cocktails, The New York Times crossword, fireworks, charades and biting jabs at each other and the boys next door, Sally and Sam and John and Chloe find little to celebrate about themselves or their country on its birthday.

Written by Terrence McNally · Directed by Diena Tyne

Auditions: December 7, 8, 9 and 10, 2026, 7 to 9 pm. Email dienatyne@gmail.com to book your audition date and time; details on what to prepare will be sent by email. Audition details →

LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (dramatists.com)

Performances

• Thu Apr 15 · 7:30 PM
• Fri Apr 16 · 7:30 PM
• Sat Apr 17 · 7:30 PM
• Thu Apr 22 · 7:30 PM
• Fri Apr 23 · 7:30 PM
• Sat Apr 24 · 7:30 PM
• Thu Apr 29 · 7:30 PM
• Fri Apr 30 · 7:30 PM
• Sat May 1 · 7:30 PM