From ‘Bent’ to ‘Rent’: How 2 Theatre Kids Found Their Way
New memoirs from playwright Martin Sherman and producer Jeffrey Seller recount their bumpy but determined journeys to lives in the theatre.
All Stories About gay theatre
Playwrights Living With HIV Have His Love, and Now Support
To his HIV-focused ‘Write It Out!’ program, Donja R. Love adds a historic playwrights’ prize and plans a new intergenerational workshop.
This Month in Theatre History
From the birth of actor Phyllis Frelich to the opening of Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre Company and premieres by Albee and Nottage, February has been a significant month for theatre.
Laurence Luckinbill, Original Boy in the Band
Fifty years ago he signed on to star in the historic gay play because he knew playwright Mart Crowley, but it grew into much more than a favor for a friend.
Gay Theatre Gets Hammered by the Canon, Again
The NY Times’ recent ‘Brief History of Gay Theatre’ was not so brief. So how did it manage to leave out so much gay history that wasn’t white and male?
Gay Theatre Grows Up
Once it was the theme that dared not speak its name. Now everybody’s talking.
