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Mart Crowley, ‘Boys in the Band’ playwright, dies at 84

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Mart Crowley, the playwright behind one of the most groundbreaking queer plays of all time, has died at 84. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi as Edward Martino Crowley, his play “The Boys in the Band” was the first major American drama explicitly dealing with the lives of gay men.

Reportedly written at the suggestion of the actress Natalie Wood, for whom he worked as a personal assistant, it debuted off-Broadway in 1968 – at a time when queer representation on the stage and screen was largely

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