HBO's "The Normal Heart" aired Sunday, and for the network -- and director Ryan Murphy -- this is a considerable undertaking not without risk, for these times are, in some regards, more polarized than ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Chicago & beyond. Like much of Kramer’s literary output, THE NORMAL HEART is the semi-autobiographical story of a brash, frequently unpleasant ...

As the audience exits the theater from a performance of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” ushers are at the doors to hand out a letter from the playwright. “Please know,” Kramer writes, “that ...

Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart is a play based on the author's own experiences with AIDS activism, the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, and the lack of government and medical intervention during the early ...

A documentary screening in Springfield this weekend touches a difficult moment in Springfield history — a 1989 theatre production of The Normal Heart stirred protests, nationwide controversy and arson ...

Don’t f— with Larry Kramer, you guys. The late, great, outspoken playwright wrote The Normal Heart as an angry rallying cry as he saw the world around him, and most of the characters in the story are ...

WATERTOWN — Nearly four decades after it premiered, Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” holds up quite well, as both a work of drama and as an expression of pure fury. But its impact in performance, as ...

OROVILLE — Tara Stokes, director of “The Normal Heart” opening next week at The Birdcage Theatre, said the show’s theme revolves around how sometimes to win a war you have to start one. “That’s really ...

Thanks to tens of thousands in city funding, Redtwist Theatre has a spiffily renovated storefront theater on historic West Bryn Mawr Avenue, replete with an upgraded black-box performance space, a ...