’The Inherance’ is a portra of lennial gay male life New York Cy, and is a picture both celebratory and utnary.
Contents:
- WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
- AN EPIC NEW BROADWAY PLAY ON MORN GAY LIFE ASKS: N WE LOVE OURSELV?
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS
- RICHARD GERE REFLECTS ON PLAYG GAY ON BROADWAY
- 1964: THE BIRTH OF GAY THEATER
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCric’s NotebookIn recent shows, ias of gayns are expandg, bg and disappearg all at WisemanI don’t know whether was bee my parents were jt generally open-md, or bee they had a specific, kdly yet mortifyg agenda, but one of the first Broadway plays they took me to, June of 1977, was way too gay for fort.
Some, like “A Strange Loop” and “Fat Ham, ” dramatize how the experience of racism amplifi that of homophobia, and vice fy expectatns by makg sexual orientatn a distctly sendary ncern among characters who “happen to be” gay or lbian, as “A Case for the Existence of God” and “At the Weddg.
When a (male) love tert enters the picture, and they sg Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” as a duet, you feel somethg new has happened, as ntroversy melts to a blissful cloud of nonbary bubble is the equalizg, homogenizg fluence of pop culture at work — an fluence that some queer people unrstandably mistst. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” go further, makg the cross-pollatn of inty the prime source of s nflict, as the ma character nonts both the homophobia of his Black fay and the racism of his queer one.
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
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) Its body, race and orientatn issu are left a kd of stalemate that suggts what might happen if a foundatnal gay play like “The Boys the Band” (which had only one Black character) were multiplied fun hoe mirrors ad fum.
AN EPIC NEW BROADWAY PLAY ON MORN GAY LIFE ASKS: N WE LOVE OURSELV?
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That the Hamlet figure, lled Juicy, is Black and gay, wh an termtent csh on a Laert-like iend, suggts that the queer theme will domate, yet don’t; “Fat Ham” is really a play about Black masculy and, even more broadly, the vlent herance all men mt renounce.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS
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” Beltran portrays a gay Black man hopg to adopt the young girl he’s been Klwich/The New York TimMy other favore queer plays of the past year likewise offer no bands; their gay characters (there are still far too few lbian on) operate as if their gayns were mostly ternal and pletely irrelevant.
RICHARD GERE REFLECTS ON PLAYG GAY ON BROADWAY
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Hunter’s heartbreakg “A Case for the Existence of God, ” that turns out to be an illn, as a gay Black man, after fosterg a ltle girl for more than three years, fds his plan to adopt her undone at the last mute.
If there are subtle ways which their sexual inti affect their character or behavr, they were too subtle for me; miss a le or two and you may not even know that gayns is a part of their makp at mak sense plays about cris that threaten to oblerate a person entirely: genr, race, orientatn and all. Francis, the closeted llege stunt “Gemi, ” probably did; if he lived through AIDS, I expect he achieved full five-star gay privilege, plete wh marriage, children and Crate & Barrel chee boards.
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1964: THE BIRTH OF GAY THEATER
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.