Feast Of Fun : Gay Talk Show

In the mid 60s New York Times theater and film critic Stanley Kauffman laid down the gauntlet asking the era’s most famous gay playwrights why they wrote plays with heterosexual characters that “distorted American women, marriage, and society” and avoided writing about gay men like themselves.Hollywood screen writer Mart Crowley responded by writing “The Boys in the Band” a gay dark comedy which featured mostly gay actors playing gay roles in a brutally honest show that laid it all on the line, from their self loating and racism to their love and resilience.The Tony Award winning play was then turned into a major motion picture released in theaters a year after the Stonewall Riots."The Boys in the Band... is not a musical." says the original poster for the 1970 film.50 years later, the play was brought back to Broadway starring some of your favorite gay Hollywood hunks, and then turned into a film again for Netflix.Now here in Chicago, the Windy City Theater is taking a whole new look at the legendary play, c