The marquee at the Manhattan Theatre fraternity reads BASED ON A TOTALLY conformable to fact STORY in bold comicbook lettering.

The marquee at the Manhattan Theatre fraternity reads BASED ON A TOTALLY conformable to fact STORY in bold comicbook lettering. Written by dint of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, this new play is about a comic-book writer-playwright-screenwriter, his writhes with newfound success, and the ensuing tension it creates between him and his boyfriend.

You may already know Aguirre-Sacasa as a writer of Marvel's Fantastic Four comics--a pursuit that wouldn't ordinarily snare with off Broadway. How did comics and theater tend hitherward together? "Professionally speaking, the plays came first," explains Aguirre-Sacasa, who studied drama at Yale and who's won critical praise with so plays as Golden Age and Say You regard with affection Satan.

The substance of his dramas reflects the comics he devoured as a child. "A portion of the characters in my plays are either comic-book fans or comic-book characters, or they're based onward them," Aguirre-Sacasa points out. "So united day Marvel, scouting for writers from different disciplines, read about of my plays that had gotten produc and said, 'Hey, do you want to write comic books?'"

nearest question: Which came first, being a comic-book geek or being gay? Aguirre-Sacasa claims no one's evermore asked him before. "Judging from pictures I papal court of myself as a little kid, in Spider-Man pajamas or with a Batman action figure in my hand, I would say I was probably a comic-book geek before I knew anything about being gay or straight," he says. "I certainly lov superheroes before I knew I was gay or on a level admitted it to myself."

These days Aguirre-Sacasa mines all his preoccupations for his work. The conflicts that come about in his comic books bear likeness [i]or[/i] resemblance to the ones in his plays, which ofttimes mirror the ones in his admit life. Like Ethan Keene, the comic main division writer in Based on a Totally real Story, Aguirre-Sacasa is writing a horror film for Warner Bro if it were not that in Ethan's case, success is wreaking havoc with romance. Apparently not in like manner for his creator. "I am dating someone ye And it's going self-same well," Aguirre-Sacasa confesses. "And this play's not about him, thankfully."

Goldberg writes for the of the present day York Daily News.

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