Buddies in Bad Times

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company. Based in Toronto, Ontario and founded in 1978 by Matt Walsh, Jerry Ciccoritti, and Sky Gilbert, Buddies in Bad Times is dedicated to "the promotion of queer theatrical expression". Buddies' inaugural production was a Gilbert written play, Angels in Underwear. An anthology of Beat poetry, Angels starred Walsh as Jack Kerouac and Ciccoritti as Allen Ginsberg, and was performed at The Dream Factory on Queen Street in Toronto in September 1978. Gilbert was the company's first artistic director. Sue Golding played a pivotal role as President from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. Gilbert, Walsh and Ciccoritti also subsequently founded the Rhubarb Festival of Canadian...