The virtual reading will include a special introduction by Martin Sheen. Brown (This Is Us, Black Panther) Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black, Promising Young Woman) Jeremy Pope (Hollywood, Choir Boy) Vincent Rodriguez III (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Insatiable): Guillermo Díaz (Scandal, Weeds) Jake Borelli (Grey’s Anatomy, The Thing About Harry) Ryan O’Connell (Special, Will & Grace) Daniel Newman (Walking Dead, Homeland) Jay Hayden (Station 19, The House Bunny) and Danielle Savre (Station 19, Heroes). He is survived by his husband, David Webster. He died at the age of eighty-four in May 2020. He was nominated for an Academy Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was twice a recipient of an Obie Award. In 1982, he cofounded Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and then in 1987, he founded ACT UP. Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) was an American playwright, author, public health advocate and gay rights activist. Larry Kramer was a distinguished novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, and a pioneering AIDS activist. Dealing with the painful experiences of the early days of the AIDS crisis when everything was still mysterious, it dramatizes the struggle among gay men over which strategies would save their lives. Directed by Dominic Cooke, Kramers largely autobiographical play about the AIDS. We are proud to be a Community Partner for ONE Archives Foundation’s virtual reading of Larry Kramer’s groundbreaking autobiographical play, “The Normal Heart.” This one-time streaming of the virtual reading will be followed by a live Q&A with the director and cast members.ĭirected by Emmy Award-winning director Paris Barclay, this presentation, the first after Kramer’s death, will be the first time the Tony Award-winning play features a predominantly BIPOC and LGBTQ cast.įirst staged in New York City in 1985 at The Public Theater, “The Normal Heart” went on to become the longest running play there. Larry Kramers The Normal Heart, in a co-production with Fictionhouse. All-Star Virtual Reading of Larry Kramer’s 'The Normal Heart' rak s vlemnyek egy helyen THE NORMAL HEART is the explosive drama about our most terrifying and troubling medical crisis today: the AIDS epidemic.

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