...devoted fans of film and stage icon Mae West. The play also traces West's life...years. Sara Waisanen plays Jo and Mae West, jumping from the present to the...helps that Jo is so different from Mae West. "It would be difficult to play...

...Blonde" offers a history lesson, Mae West's life story, a love story and...film buff getting to know the aging Mae West are touching and funny. The acting...easy to like, unless you just hate Mae West and have serious issues with men in...

...to expose a double life. ``The Drag,'' a play by Mae West, opens Friday in the Goldtown Nickelodeon Theater. Everything...an educator and will be presented in a movie theater. Mae West, best known as the sexual icon of the 1920s and '30s...

...love story mixed with a mash note to Mae West, all wrapped in a camp romp served up with glitz and verve. Mae West began performing in vaudeville at...Claudia Shear, who turns 40 this year. Mae West first burst on the scene with her...

Exposing another side of Mae West By RILEY WOODFORD THE JUNEAU EMPIRE...life. ``The Drag,'' a play by Mae West, opens Friday in the Goldtown Nickelodeon...be presented in a movie theater. Mae West, best known as the sexual icon of...

...2002-03 season will include four plays and a musical. The season will open with "Dirty Blonde," a comedy about actress Mae West that just wrapped a successful run on Broadway. Tennessee Williams' classic, "The Glass Menagerie," will follow...

...Thursday-Saturday next week. Tickets $10 advance, $12 at the door, $8 for students and seniors. ``The Drag,'' by Mae West, by Moving Ice productions, a new Juneau theater group. Opens 7 p.m. Friday, shows 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday...

...already a drag show in the show as well. The script could have been written last year and set in 1927. Instead, actress Mae West wrote it in 1927. She was clearly an intelligent, insightful writer with keen insight into gay culture. It's interesting...

...pamphlets and phonograph records with Itjens' humorous account of his trip to Hollywood in the streetcar to meet the famous Mae West. Itjen cooked up the idea after tourism began dropping off during the depression, said park historian Karl Gurcke...

...High School auditorium. Tickets $10 advance, $12 at the door, $8 for students and seniors. ``The Drag,'' by Mae West, by Moving Ice productions, a new Juneau theater group. 7 p.m. tonight, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a special...