By Laura Moreno
In the words of Broadway legend Terrence McNally, who died this year of coronavirus in New York City, “[Plays] provide a forum for the ideas and feelings that can lead a society to decide to heal and change itself.” So perhaps it’s no surprise that many of most influential playwrights are LGBTQ. Here are seven of them.
The Other Day A play by Mark Jason Williams Loretta Michael Productions Theater at the 14th Street Y THE OTHER DAY is a play that grows on you—in…More
IT WAS EITHER kismet or dumb luck that the original production of The Boys in the Bandappeared Off-Broadway in 1968, the year before the Stonewall Riots. Everyoneof note seemed…More
The first thing I noticed at HERE Art Center in Tribeca last month was a crowd of mostly white, middle-aged, New York literati types. And while normally this would be…More
Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein Produced by 2nd Stage Theatre IT IS THE SEASON of gay revivals on Broadway and Off, and the latest is Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, formerly…More
Butterfly by David Henry Hwang At the Cort Theatre, New York City THE BROADWAY revival of David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly comes at a propitious moment: the Imperialist…More
IF THEATER is a temporary rearrangement of life to spark discovery, the musical Fun Home—the touring Broadway production is currently playing at the Boston Opera House—exceeds requirements, not only yielding insights but whipping up exuberance out of anguished chaos in the process.
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“Truman is magic” says an awestruck Andy Warhol a couple of times in the course of Warhol/Capote, a ninety-minute play having its world premiere in Cambridge Mass. this…More
Indecent A play by Paula Vogel Directed by Rebecca Taichman Cort Theatre, NYC PAULA VOGEL, the Pulitzer-prize winning dramatist of How I Learned to Drive, has again collaborated with…More
Afterglow is based in part on S. Asher Gelman’s own experience with an extra-marital relationship, shows that he can write strong individual scenes for his actors that have the ring of truth.
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