Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point I was a little worried about having my main character, Sherman McCoy, losing $6 million for his firm in about 15 minutes. I thought, "Well, this is fiction. I'll go ahead and do it." My typewriter had hardly stopped moving before I picked up the New York Times, and there on Page One was an account of a young investment banker, about the same age as my character, 38, who lost $250 million for his firm in a week. I felt like Alice in Wonderland, running as hard as I can to stay in the same place...
Written by Martin Sherman...
HELD over by popular demand, Mark Prascak's gripping production of Martin Sherman's urgent play about Nazi persecution of gays may force you to confront your own attitudes. Proceeds go to benefit AIDS victims...
Written by Martin Sherman...
...playwright Martin Sherman's Bent can be read as a parable for the anti-gay paranoia in this age of AIDS. (It is thus appropriate that this production's proceeds will go to a local AIDS action committee.) But its literal subject, the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, stands up well enough on its own dramatically...