Artist Spotlight: Steven Gallagher on his One-Man Play 'Stealing Sam'
When I sat down the other day with Steven Gallagher, I made up my mind to be a doofus. (Yes, sometimes it is a choice.) More exactly, I determined to ask the obvious, and from the get-go: just how much of his extraordinary Stealing Sam is autobiographical? The play, part of the United Solo Festival, is about a man named Jimmy, in the midst of a moment of connecting with the loss of the love of his life to AIDS,…