I Want to Bury My Testimony

Not to be written off as yet another gay coming of age story, I Want to Bury My Testimony is an amusing confessional written and performed by multi-hyphenate entertainer Scott Hislop.... full review

You might think you’ve seen enough gay coming-out solo shows to last a lifetime, but that would be before seeing the funny, touching, and absolutely fabulous I Want To Bury My Testimony. In fact, the only thing amiss with Hislop’s one-manner is a title that, despite being a clever take-off on the Mormon custom of “bearing testimony,” ends up too deceptively dark to describe as joyously celebratory a show as Hislop’s, despite its occasional detours into serious territory. From Utah-born Scott’s Nevada upbringing to his discovery early-on that he was “different” to a pair of coming-outs (interrupted by a noble but failed experiment in heterosexuality) to a move to West Hollywood and a career as “Dancer-Master Teacher-Actor-Host-Producer-... full review