At Stage's Edge, Downtown ; Hot! Fest Offerings Range From Thoughtful to Silly

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When the Broadway theater season dies down in the summer, cabaret stars in see-through negligees and hot pink thongs take the stage at Dixon Place in downtown Manhattan.

The non-profit theater company's annual HOT! Festival, which runs through August, also features gender-bending dancers and dramatists, a lesbian exploring the life of a cross-dressing Harlem Renaissance blues singer, a radical comic spewing invective against the Bush administration, and a gay man in a blue bunny suit prophesying the end of the world.

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At Stage's Edge, Downtown ; Hot! Fest Offerings Range From Thoughtful to Silly

Now in its 15th year, the festival has become the place to catch New York's edgiest performance art by mostly gay and lesbian actors, writers and dancers who are far from household names even among d...

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