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Larry Kramer earned an Oscar nomination for his 1969 screenplay Women in Love, then co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the radical Act Up. Onstage, he retold his life in The Normal Heart (1985) and resumed it in this off-Broadway stunner. Jonathan Hadary gave the performance of the year, balancing titanic rage, puckish mockery and suppressed self-pity...
...Liberals think it's about sexual harassment. Conservatives are sure it's about intellectual terrorism. Even Playbill splits the difference: half the front covers put a bull's-eye on the haughty college professor, the other half on his dim, dogmatic female student. Playwright David Mamet's off-Broadway zinger holds a mirror up to muddled modern life...
...most successful directors not only in regional theater but on the commercial stage as well. In New York City he is currently represented by Herb Gardner's Conversations with My Father on Broadway and Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, which will transfer from off-Broadway to Broadway in March. His director's royalties for those shows are shared with Seattle Rep, where all those shows originated (as did Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport and Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, also staged...
Kushner isn't much interested in promoting understanding between gays and the straight world, as is fostered by the current Broadway musical Falsettos. He certainly isn't interested in autobiographical pain of the kind that Larry Kramer so affectingly revisits in his off-Broadway drama The Destiny of Me. He seems especially unsympathetic to closet cases and bisexuals, as personified in a Mormon character whose ambitions clash with his libido: the man's straight wife and gay lover both cast him aside. Politically, Angels preaches to the choir, celebrating gay anger and self-righteousness (to gleeful whoops from the audience...
When the original production of The Fantasticks opened thirty-two years ago, reviewers used words like "charming" and "sweet" with "graceful, humorous" music to describe it. As the world's longest running off-Broadway hit, having opened May 1960, it outlived more than a few newspapers that gave it unfavorable reviews...