The Normal Heart
Tickets and Information
SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Apr 21, 2004
Closed Jun 29, 2004
2hr. 50min.
(includes 1 intermission)
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Worth Street Theater Company presents the first major revival of Larry Kramer's landmark AIDS drama. Originally produced in 1985, The Normal Heart forces America to deal with the plague of AIDS, but also to the country's deep-seated, institutional bigotry towards homosexuality.
David Esbjornson directs a cast that includes Raul Esparza, Billy Warlock, Lisa Kron, Richard Bekins, Fred Berman, Mccaleb Burnett, Jay Russell, Mark Dobies, and Paul Witthorne.
"Poetic and timeless. It has the fraught urgency of a dispatch from a war zone, given extra sharpness by reminding you that this same was is still being fought. An absorbing new revival -- irresistibly passionate and defiant."
Ben Brantley, The New York Times
"Riveting as big old-fashioned theatre. Remains a shock to the system.
Gripping and still pertinent."
Linda Winer, Newsday
"As furious as ever. It plays brilliantly."
Donald Lyons, The New York Post
"The fires in The Normal Heart still burn fiercely. It's operatic and
heartbreaking."
Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press
"Burns white hot. The writing blisters with conviction and heart."
Charles Isherwood, Variety
The 7pm performance on Sunday, July 4th has been cancelled and
replaced with a Wednesday, June 30th show at 2pm.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
425 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10003
The Anspach Theatre at the Public seats 275. Founded in 1954 by Joseph Papp, this is arguably the strongest not-for-profit theater in New York. The productions presented here are continually daring and inventive. The success of this theater stems [...] Read More
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As with everything else it affects, time changes plays. That certainly applies to The Normal Heart, which Larry Kramer wrote in a white-hot rage during the early AIDS-epidemic years and which is now being revived in a powerful Worth Street Theater Company production at The Public Theater, where the dramatic outcry was first emitted in 1985. Then, Kramer's impassioned work seemed an impossible to ignore polemical rant fueled in approximately equal parts by the author's sincere horror at the insufficient amount of attention being paid to the incipient plague and by the author's impressed view of himself as a lone wolf howling in a desert.
Slightly tweaked for the new mounting, including some [...]