FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA How this drag performer is trying to save regional theater, one cocktail at a time [Los Angeles Times] She’s a fiery redhead with a heart of gold. A sassy Southern gal whose euphemisms would make a sailor blush. She believes that the four food groups are gin, rum, vodka and tequila, and she’d like to invite you to happy hour at her place. Dixie Longate is the drag persona of actor, writer and comedian Kris Andersson, who has been touring with his solo show, “Dixie’s Tupperware Party,” for longer than a decade. Like most everything else, that run came to a screeching halt last March, and Andersson was left to ask: What now?