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Why Are There So Many New Plays About AIDS Right Now? - Three new works, including Broadway's 'The Inheritance,' explore the impact of the virus on mu

Three new works, including Broadway's The Inheritance, explore the impact of the virus on multiple generations---Playwright Matthew Lopez was 10 when he first learned about AIDS from the TV news. "That's how I discovered what being gay was, by simultaneously being taught that it also meant dying of HIV/AIDS," he says. Later, as a theatre-loving teenager wrestling with his sexual orientation in the early '90s, he saw …

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