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- AN EPIC NEW BROADWAY PLAY ON MORN GAY LIFE ASKS: N WE LOVE OURSELV?
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
- NEW YORK’S 2ND STAGE THEATER OFFERS LOTS OF GAY OPTNS
AN EPIC NEW BROADWAY PLAY ON MORN GAY LIFE ASKS: N WE LOVE OURSELV?
Jt bee pri weekend is past don’t mean the celebratns of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people on and off Broadway are over. * current gay broadway shows *
The new jebox mil, which opened on Thursday, featur a subplot volvg Snow Whe’s eighth dwarf, Clumsy (Nathan Levy), who out as gay when he falls for Prce Ede (Ryan Steele. This revival of Lorrae Hansberry’s 1964 Broadway play featur an out gay character — four years before “Boys the Band” shocked people Off-Broadway.
David Rag (Glenn Fzgerald) is not only gay; he’s a playwright wrg a play about two men married to one another and livg a reigerator. Jt bee pri weekend is past don’t mean the celebratns of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people on and off Broadway are over.
The heartbreakg drama tells the bgraphil story of celebrated graphic artist Alison Bechl as she disvers her sexual orientatn while tryg to unrstand how she relat to her father -- himself a closeted gay man who ms suici four months after she out.
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
’The Inherance’ is a portra of lennial gay male life New York Cy, and is a picture both celebratory and utnary. * current gay broadway shows *
“Sprg Awakeng” alum Gion Glick stars as Jordan Berman, the young gay hero at the center of Joshua Harmon’s relatable edy “Signifint Other. This poignant edy is “a sweet and pafully hont g-of-age story that’ll probably seem faiar to many 20-somethgs, gay or straight. The edy tak place Pennsylvania 1973, where a young gay teen (Urie, narratn) is troduced to theater through his lol muny troupe, lead by the vivac Irene (LuPone).
” Spahn plays two characters the show, one of them beg Dean -- a gay edorial assistant workg at a notor Manhattan magaze. A morn sp on the tradnal weddg edy, “It Shoulda Been You” is the only mil on Broadway to feature a gay weddg, a lbian weddg and a straight weddg. Forster’s 1910 novel Howard’s End pats a vivid and precise portra of lennial gay life New York Cy.
It’ll now be sung by a gay man who’s serly rensirg his cisn to get married. The bright-eyed missnari The Book of Mormon are gayer than Christmas and sweeter than ndy, and Mean Girls is “almost too gay to functn. Urie plays their gay son, a dited high school drama teacher.
NEW YORK’S 2ND STAGE THEATER OFFERS LOTS OF GAY OPTNS
Gay-themed Broadway mils have e a long way the past fifty years. The on are the bt. * current gay broadway shows *
Jordan Barbour, Darryl Gene Dghtry Jr., Kyle Soller, Arturo Luís Soria and Kyle Harris ‘The Inherance’ (photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMa, 2019)The central theme of plays about ntemporary gay life—a lerature that n be traced back half a century to 1968’s “The Boys the Band”—has not been the trma of g out, the stggle for civil rights or the fight agast H. This quandary is obvly as relevant to straight dienc as to gay on, and fds eloquent if over-dulgent new exprsn “The Inherance, ” an epic two-part play now on s most basic level, Matthew Lopez’s play is a portra of lennial gay male life New York Cy, and is a picture both celebratory and utnary. Matthew Lopez’s play is a portra of lennial gay male life New York Cy, and is a picture both celebratory and bds them is the ual tangle of affy and mutual need, as well as an impossibly posh Upper Wt Si apartment, which Eric has hered thanks to rent ntrol.
Eric beiends Walter (Pl Hilton), a quiet, middle-aged gay man wh matter-of-factly harrowg tal of the closet and the early plague years of AIDS. (For one, Forster himself was a closeted gay man; his 1912 novel Mrice, about two men fdg happs together, was not published until after his ath, 1971.
I hate to make the unavoidable parison to Tony Khner’s epochal “Angels Ameri, ” another two-part play on gay them; “The Inherance” fully serv nsiratn on s own terms. But one thg you n say for Khner: He put gay men at the center of the Amerin narrative, fully and unapologetilly. It is the and Eric’s votn to hearg them out that lk “The Inherance” to a robt legacy of plays about what the gay experience n teach all about the steep st of love and the even steeper st of the failure to love.