The Normal Heart (2011)

Written by Larry Kramer
Directed by Joel Grey
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Patrick Breen, Mark Harelik, John Benjamin Hickey, Luke MacFarlane, Joe Mantello, Lee Pace, Jim Parsons

In early 1980s New York City, writer and activist Ned Weeks witnesses a mysterious illness ravaging the gay community and struggles to sound the alarm as friends and lovers fall ill. Alongside Dr. Emma Brookner, a polio-stricken physician treating the first patients, Ned helps found an advocacy organization, clashing with closeted allies, indifferent officials, and his own brother while falling in love with New York Times reporter Felix Turner, who contracts the disease.

Theater

John Golden Theatre · Broadway

Closed

July 10, 2011