Boys in the Band

Drama

Characters: 9 male

Interior Set

This seminal work of the Off-Broadway movement premiered in 1968 and was a long-running hit onstage, later filmed with the original cast. In 2010, the play made a triumphant return to New York City in an highly praised production produced by Drama Desk and Obie Award winning Transport Group.

In his upper eastside Manhattan apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-awoved 32 year-old, pock-marked, Jew fairy , complete with surprise gift: Cowboy a street hustler. As the evening wears on, fueled by drugs and alcohol, bitter, unresolved resentments among the guests come to light when a game of Truth goes terribly wrong.

A play of real substance, one that deserves to be performed not occasionally but regularly. -The Wall Street Journal

...terrifically thoughtful...The Boys in the Band emerges remarkably universal. -NY1

...deliriously delicious... -Gay City News

The Boys in the Band... goes from wittily bitchy to heartbreakingly brutal... -Out Magazine

Witty, bitchy, revelatory and dazzlingly entertaining...the excoriating wit is still there. -New York Post

Humor is still on key in this poignant, sparkling revival of a landmark gay play...the star of the evening is the play itself solidly built, still moving and enormously entertaining. -New York Daily News

This is a play that takes the homosexual way of life totally for granted and uses this as a valid basis for human experience...the power of the play is the way in which it remorselessly peels away the pretensions of its characters. -The New York Times