Essential plays for Pride Month
Out of the closets and onto the stage Lanford Wilson's 1964 one-act The Madness of Lady Bright, a dynamic character study of an aging drag queen, is frequently cited as America's first "gay play." It premiered at Caffe Cino, an off-off-Broadway coffeehouse theater in New York's Greenwich Village that also nurtured the work of emerging gay playwrights Robert Patrick, Tom Eyen, Jean-Claude …