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Capsule Stage Reviews: The Boys in the Band, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Submission, The Young Man from Atlanta

The Boys in the Band Mart Crowley’s historic gay play (1968) is the mother of them all. When it premiered off-Broadway a full year before the seminal Stonewall riots, Crowley’s acid-dipped drama shocked theater-goers with its full frontal assault. No one had ever been this close to a homosexual onstage,…

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