The Boys in the Band

Creative Cultural Cross Referencing (How to Link Stephen Sondheim to the Original Siamese Twins)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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George Heymont

Let's look at two recent events, play a little cultural mashup, and examine the results.

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HuffPost Review: Making 'The Boys'

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Will & Grace, Splendor in the Grass, Angels in America, Making the Boys, Torch Song Trilogy, Stonewall Riots, Movies, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Natalie Wood, Making the Boys Movie Review, The L Word, William Friedkin, Edward Albee, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, Paul Rudnick, Gay-Rights Movement, Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, Marshall Fine Movie Reviews, Crayton Robey, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Crayton Robey's documentary Making 'The Boys' chronicles changes in both gay culture and its acceptance by mainstream America, reminding us that 40 years ago, gays and lesbians had fewer civil rights than black people or women.

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Making Gay History -- Again

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crayton Robey Interview, Twentieth Century-Fox, Mart Crowley Interview, Including Edward Albee, When Ocean Meets Sky, Bette Davis, Darryl F. Zanuck, Fire Island, Robert Wagner, Stonewall, Marshall Fine Interview, Marshall Fine, Natalie Wood, Gay Rights, William Friedkin, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, The Boys in the Band, Paul Rudnick, Larry Kramer, Making the Boys, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Making 'The Boys' blends several storylines, including the history of Mart Crowley's ground-breaking 1969 play The Boys in the Band, and the rise of the gay-rights movement in its wake.

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"The Play's the Thing": Getting Butts in the Seats

Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Donkey Show, Death and the Powers, Theater, Under Construction, Signature Theatre Company, Angels in America, See Rock City, Charles L. Mee, Transport Group, Diane Paulus, Medea, SITI Company, Theatre, Hair, Tom Stoppard, The Boys in the Band, John Gielgud, Sleep No More, Aristotle, Macbeth, American Repertory Theatre, David Staller, Anne Bogart, Shaw New York, The Extra Man, Gingold Theatrical Group, Project Shaw, Marian Seldes, Tony Kushner, Jack Cummings III, The Coast of Utopia, Tadashi Suzuki, Punchdrunk, Arts News
Ashley Wren Collins

"I don't think revolution ever happens on big Broadway stages. So our responsibility is to create extraordinary events in small rooms that infect the rest of the culture," Anne Bogart insists.

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Next Fall: Geoffrey Naufft's Top-Drawer Gay Play Moves to Broadway

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Cotter Smith, The Temperamentals, The Pride, Next Fall, Alfred Lord Douglas, Terence Rattigan, Sheryl Kaller, Noel Coward, Sean Dugan, Plays, Tennessee Williams, Connie Ray, Patrick Breen, Patrick Heusinger, Salome, Maddie Corman, Present Laughter, Geoffrey Nauffts, Alexi Kaye Campbell, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Jon Marans, Naked Angels, The Mattachine Society, Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, Helen Hayes Theatre, Yank!, New York News
David Finkle

Hardly enough can be said about Geoffrey Nauffts's Next Fall, which is both remarkably simple and exceedingly complex.

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The Boys in the Band: Still Offering a Gay Old Time

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jon Levenson, Christopher Innvar, Nick Westrate, Jonathan Hammond, Kevyn Morrow, Transport Group, Aaron Sharff, Kevin Isola, Sandra Goldmark, Homosexual Community, Graham Rowat, Jack Cummings III, Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, John Wellmann, Stonewall Inn, New York News
David Finkle

Matt Crowley's dark comedy, The Boys in the Band, opened at Manhattan's Theatre Four on April 14, 1968, little more than a year before the Stonewall Inn fracas.

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