{"id":4453,"date":"2020-03-13T02:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2020-03-13T02:56:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:56:54","slug":"mart-crowley-the-tony-winning-playwright-of-the-boys-in-the-band-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4453","title":{"rendered":"Mart Crowley, the Tony-winning playwright of The Boys in the Band dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A playwright and screenwriter, Crowley is best known for creating the first mainstream portrayal of gay men in Boys in the Band, which is being released later this year as a Netflix film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/198715\/mart-crowley-tony-winning-playwright-of-the-boys-in-the-band-is-dead-at-84\/\">https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/198715\/mart-crowley-tony-winning-playwright-of-the-boys-in-the-band-is-dead-at-84\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/playwright-mart-crowley-boys-in-the-band-dead-84-964742\/\">https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/playwright-mart-crowley-boys-in-the-band-dead-84-964742\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch a 2009 Theatre Talk interview with Crowley here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tv.cuny.edu\/show\/theatertalk\/PR1010888\">https:\/\/tv.cuny.edu\/show\/theatertalk\/PR1010888<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A playwright and screenwriter, Crowley is best known for creating the first mainstream portrayal of gay men in Boys in the Band, which is being released later this year as a Netflix film. https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/198715\/mart-crowley-tony-winning-playwright-of-the-boys-in-the-band-is-dead-at-84\/ https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/playwright-mart-crowley-boys-in-the-band-dead-84-964742\/ You can watch a 2009 Theatre Talk interview with Crowley here: https:\/\/tv.cuny.edu\/show\/theatertalk\/PR1010888<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":4455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,64,59,769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glbt-news","category-in-memoriam","category-people","category-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}