Brandon Haagenson and David Merten in Afterglow at Davenport Loft
Phillip James Brannon and Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Log Cabin at Playwrights Horizons
Eli Gelb, Idina Menzel and Will Brittain in the 2018 Off-Broadway play “Skintight” by Joshua Harmon. It was her first non-singing role on a New York stage.
Cast of Le Blanc, at The Pit
Andrew Garfield as Prior and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as his former lover and current caretaker.
Sheldon Best and Chinaza Uche in Sugar in Our Wounds at MTC
Sean Hudock and Daniel Burn in “She Calls Me Firefly” at SoHo Playhouse
Michael Rosen and Michael Urie in Torch Song, transferring to Broadway
Jim Parsons and Matt Boman in Boys in the Band on Broadway
Neptune, written and performed by Timothy DuWhite, is one of the offerings of the 27th annual Hot Festival, celebrating queer culture
To judge only from Broadway, New York theater is experiencing a Renaissance of old gay plays, with starry revivals of three landmark dramas that are now period pieces: The Boys in the Band from the 1960s, the soon-to-open Torch Song from the 1980s and Angels in America from the 1990s.
But, as I make clear in a round-up piece on TDF Stages, Pride Month Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway tells a much broader story.
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