Every generation or so since the late 1960s, a new play encapsulating the gay experience opens in New York. The Boys in the Band, Torch Song Trilogy, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Angels in America have defined their respective gay moment and how the general society is reacting to it. Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance is the …
If you’re looking for pure, unmitigated fun you could do a lot worse that getting yourself over to the Geffen Playhouse to see The Legend of Georgia McBride. It’s a story that emerged from playwright Matthew Lopez’s own experience growing up, as he put it, “gay and Puerto Rican” in Panama City, Florida. McBride is …
Athol Fugard is an institution, literary, theatrical, spiritual and political. In addition to being a playwright, he’s an actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. When apartheid was raging in South Africa, he dramatized its inequities with brilliance and humanity. As an Afrikaner, he was in the ideal position to do so. When apartheid was officially dismantled …
COSTA MESA — Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man is not a new play, but it is the first play he wrote that brought him notoriety, and a New York production that put him on the map as one of the most promising young playwrights writing today. It premiered in Montclair, NJ, at Luna Stage, in …
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