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Mauckingbird Theatre Company, Philadelphia’s “Best Gay Theatre Company,” according to Philadelphia Weekly, opens its fifth season with the Philadelphia premiere of Jon Marans’ 2009 play The Temperamentals.

The piece, so named for the code word gay men used to refer to themselves, reveals the courageous men of the Mattachine Society, the first viable gay rights organization in the U.S. The New York Times hailed the play as “informative and evocative.”

Set against a backdrop of intolerance at the height of early 1950s McCarthyism, The Temperamentals tells of a secret love story that unfolds between communist Harry Hay and Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich.

As Managing Director Lindsay Mauck paraphrases from Philadelphia Magazine, “Gay or not Gay, this is simply good theater.”

Get tickets online.

Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s The Temperamentals
When: April 11-29
Where: Skybox at The Adrienne Theatre, 2030 Sansom Street
Cost: $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for students
More info: www.mauckingbird.org