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Contents:
- NEW WAVE OF BLACK, GAY NARRATIV TAKG BIGGER ROLE ON NYC THEATER SCENE
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
- A STRANGE LOOP GETS INTO THE MD OF ITS BLACK GAY PROTAGONIST
- BROADWAY'S CHRISTIAN DANTE WHE MAK BLACK GAY HISTORY MY FAIR LADY
NEW WAVE OF BLACK, GAY NARRATIV TAKG BIGGER ROLE ON NYC THEATER SCENE
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THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
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“It was really important to that, obvly, this show is about a young, gay, overweight Black man, ” he said.
A STRANGE LOOP GETS INTO THE MD OF ITS BLACK GAY PROTAGONIST
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BROADWAY'S CHRISTIAN DANTE WHE MAK BLACK GAY HISTORY MY FAIR LADY
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A new movement is takg centerstage on and off Broadway — and jt time for Pri productns wh Black and gay narrativ are no longer the unrstudi on the New York theater clu the Tony-nomated h mil “A Strange Loop” and baseball-themed play “Take Me Out, ” the 2022 Pulzer Prize-wng “Fat Ham, ” the sightful Off-Broadway dramas “soft” and “what the end will be, ” as well as the Theater Row adaptatn of “B-Boy Blu.