Chris won't open the door. It's his blind date, Richard, knocking. Richard resorts to tricking Chris into letting him in. So begins “Opening Lines,” the current production of the Lambda Players. Chris and Richard begin what is for many of us that uncomfortable conversation of getting to know someone that we may or may have no interested in getting to know better. It doesn't help that Chris is neurotic and Richard is well, a little boring. Long-time Lambda regulars Mahlon Hall (“Sordid Lives,” “The Nun Crashers”) and West Ramsey (“Make Way For Dyklings,” “Oscar and Bosie”) play Chris and Richard, respectively. They are excellent at portraying the discomfort the characters are experiencing

Emotions ran high on stage keeping the audience at the edge of their seats during the dramatic showing of Suddenly, Last Summer, a play by Tennessee Williams, which opened Oct. 2 at the Lambda Players new theater home on 21st Street. As the audience entered the newly designed, intimate theater space, which seats approximately 40 patrons, a social experiment ensued. The seats, which have yet to be properly numbered and ordered, left patrons roaming through the four aisles trying to figure out an order or pattern to the seating chart. Eventually the groups would simply situate themselves in an open section. However, those who had already figured out the disorder were entertained by the new