Difficult to believe that Mart Crowley’s iconic and ground-breaking play about a group of gay men at a New York party celebrated its 50th birthday in 2018.
It was fitting that the play, originally off-Broadway got the full treatment that year, and won a richly-deserved Tony.Now Ryan Murphy has produced and Joe Mantello has directed a film revival with the 2018 Broadway cast , including a little cameo appearance by Crowley himself.
Sadly the playwright died this March before the new film aired to great acclaim on Netflix where it currently sits.Staged just a year before Stonewall, the play was important as it showed sympathetically the lives of gay men on the stage for the first time – and broke new ground in lots of ways.