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Why You Should Go To The Theater Tonight

Why You Should Go To The Theater Tonight

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This one-night only event, of one of the longest solo shows in New York history, benefits HIV/AIDS causes.

David Drake’s landmark play about gay and AIDS activism, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, gets a 20th anniversary performance to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Sero Project. It was originally a one-man show starring Drake, but this new one-night-only production reenvisions it for an ensemble cast that includes Drake, Anthony Rapp (of Rent fame), B.D. Wong (from Law & Order: SVU), Robin De Jesús, André De Shields, and other stage luminaries, under the direction of Tony nominee Robert LaFosse.

Playwrite David Drake wrote The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me in the early 1990s. After joining ACT UP, he began writing autobiographical monologues about the AIDS crisis that eventually became a one-man show about this critical point in American history.

The original off-Broadway run at the Perry Street Theatre became one of the longest-running solo shows in New York theater history. There now have been nearly 100 productions worldwide and it's been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish and Greek. Don't miss this one-night only performance!

8 p.m. Monday, Gerard W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, New York City.

$40 Tickets at the door, beginning at 7 p.m.

For info visit BroadwayCares.com/TheNightLarryKramerKissedMe.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
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