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Uptown Players Presents THE BOYS IN THE BAND
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 23,
Uptown Players will present the groundbreaking play The Boys in the Band, a powerful and thought-provoking exploration of friendship, identity, and the struggles faced by gay men in the late s.
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Mart Crowley, Groundbreaking &#;The Boys in the Band&#; Playwright, Dead at 84
Mart Crowley — best known for penning The Boys in the Band, a play about a group of gay and bisexual friends in New York City — has died at age The playwright died Saturday night in Manhattan of complications from heart surgery, according to friend David Cuthbert, via the New York Times.
The Boys in the Band was one of the first plays to portray gay life when it opened Off-Broadway in April “I went to see Boys in the Band several times,” playwright Edward Albee says in the documentary Making the Boys. “And more and more I saw an audience there of straights who were so happy to be able to see people they didn’t have to respect.” It later became a film in directed by William Friedkin.
Although still groundbreaking in how it depicted gay men as complex protagonists rather than deviants or villains, it hit cinemas after the Stonewall Riots and was criticized by many for its portrayal of the men as self-loathing and stereotypical.
“The first time, we would take anyone who would do it; we were beating the bushes [for actors],” Crowley told&
Inside Natalie Wood and Mart Crowley's Year Friendship
Natalie Wood's first taste of fame came as a child when she scored the lead role in 's Miracle on 34th Street. She would grow up to become a three-time Academy Award-nominated actress, but her mysterious death has become her lasting legacy. Pioneering gay writer Mart Crowley would also attract international fame when his breakthrough and controversial play, The Boys in the Band, opened Off Broadway in But to each other, Wood and Crowley were simply just the best of friends.
READ MORE: The Mystery Surrounding Natalie Wood's Death
Wood and Crowley met on the set of 'Splendor in the Grass'
Edward Martino “Mart” Crowley was born on August 21, , in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating with a degree in theater from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in , he soon struck out for New York. The daughter of poor Russian immigrants, Wood began her acting career at age 4 and was a leading Hollywood draw thanks to star turns in Rebel Without a Cause () and The Searchers (). She married fellow actor Robert Wagner in
When Wood and Crowley first met, she was eager to be acknowledged as a serious acto
Mart Crowley Biography | Author of The Boys in the Band
Mart Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in His early life was deeply rooted in the Catholic Church: he attended a Catholic high school and then went to the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., graduating in His family life was turbulent, with his father drinking heavily and his mother a hypochondriac who used drugs. Still, as Crowley told Ieva Augstums of The Daily Nebraskan in , in one of his rare interviews, "As for my parents, well, they were supportive knowing that they had a weird kid." In the early s, he moved to Hollywood to work as a set designer and worked at several production companies. Eventually, from to , he was a secretary for the actress Natalie Wood. It was during this time that he began writing The Boys in the Band.
The play was produced in New York in and proved to
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