Female impersonator tale Wig Out! brims with attitude and extravagance

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New York – The story may at times slip into soap opera, but “Wig Out!” by Tarell Alvin McCraney brims with attitude and extravagance.

And attitude and extravagance, the fiercer the better, is what you want in a tale of competing drag houses and the rivalry that exists between the female impersonators in each camp.

The play, which had its world premiere Tuesday at off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre, chronicles the competition, not to mention the lives and loves of one such house…