num_pages: 182
description: "Boys can still hold its own . . . [Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defined by the pain."-The New York TimesThe Boys in the Band was the first commercially successful play to reveal gay life to mainstream America. Alyson is proud to release a special fortieth anniversary edition of the play, which includes an original preface by acclaimed writer Tony Kushner (Angels in America), along with previously unpublished photographs of Mart Crowley and the cast of the play/film.Mart Crowley's other plays include the autobiographical A Breeze from the Gulf (1973) and The Men from the Boys (2002).
language: English
title: The Boys in the Band
titlecomplete: The Boys in the Band
characters: Bernard, Harold, Hank, Michael, Larry, Emory, Alan, Donald, Cowboy
genres: American, Queer, Classics, Drama, Plays, LGBT, Gay, Fiction, Queer Lit, Theatre
ratings_count: 1103
publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux