The Glines
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Founded in 1976 by John Glines, Barry Laine and Jerry Tobin, The Glines is a not-for-profit organization devoted to creating and presenting gay art in order to develop positive self-images and dispel negative stereotyping. In 1983, The Glines production of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy[1] won Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor. The Glines/Circle Repertory Company co-production of William M. Hoffman's As Is[2] won the 1985 Drama Desk Award for Best Play and was nominated for Tony Awards in the categories of Best Play, Best Director and Best Actor. And The Glines/PSX production of Howard Crabtree's Whoop-Dee-Doo![3] won the 1994 Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue and Best Costume Design.
Other notable successes produced by The Glines include Jane Chambers’[4] Last Summer At Bluefish Cove,[5] My Blue Heaven,[6] and The Quntessential Image[7] , Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship and Forever After[8] , Victor Bumbalo’s Niagara Falls, Richard Hall’s Love Match, Sydney Morris’ If This Isn’t Love! and The Wind Beneath My Wings,[9] Arch Brown’s Newsboy[10] and Sex Symbols[11] , Joseph Pintauro’s Wild Blue,[12] Anthony Bruno’s Soul Survivor, Robert Patrick’s T-Shirts and Untold Decades,[13] Tom Wilson Weinberg’s musical Get Used To It,[14] An Evening With Quentin Crisp[15] , a number of plays by John Glines, including On Tina Tuna Walk, Men Of Manhattan, Body And Soul and Murder In Disguise, plus the First and Second Gay American Arts Festivals in 1980 and 1981.[16][17]
One of the most prestigious benefits given by The Glines was at Town Hall in 1982. It was three one-act plays: The Quintessential Image by Jane Chambers with Peg Murray in the title role, Forget Him by Harvey Fierstein with Harvey Fierstein, Estelle Getty and Court Miller, and A Loss of Memory by Arthur Laurents with Richard DeFabees, who played Arnold in matinee performances of Torch Song Trilogy.[18]
The Glines broke into television in 1986 with its acclaimed production of Hero of My Own Life, a documentary on the life of a person living with AIDS.[19]
Among the thousands of artists who have appeared with The Glines are Caroline Aaron, Pat Bond, Matthew Broderick, Charles Busch, Thomas Calabro, Andrea Dworkin, Harvey Fierstein, Estelle Getty, Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Jonathan Hadary, Lou Liberatore, Audre Lorde, Dan Lauria, Armistead Maupin, Mark Morris, Park Overall, Felice Picano, James Purdy, John Rechy, Ned Rorem, Mercedes Ruehl, Vito Russo, Richard Skipper, Jean Smart, Fisher Stevens, Robin Tyler, Edmund White and Jack Wrangler
[edit] References
- ^ Mel Gussow THEATER: FIERSTEIN'S TORCH SONG The New York Times, November 1, 1981.
- ^ Frank Rich Stage: 'As Is,' About AIDS, Opens The New York Times, March 11, 1985.
- ^ Stephen Holden Theater Review: Dusting Off the Spirit of Ziegfeld The New York Times, July 5,1993.
- ^ The Eight Faces of Jane [1]
- ^ The Purple Circuit, Old Plays are Gold. [2]
- ^ Beth A. Kattelman Chambers, Jane (1937-1983) glbtq, an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture website
- ^ Stephen Holden Review/Theater; Comedy of Self-Acceptance And a Portrait of Its Writer The New York Times, August 17, 1989.
- ^ On Forever After [3] Doric Wilson website
- ^ If This Isn’t Love! Doollee.com
- ^ Arch Brown biography [4] Arch Brown website
- ^ Sex Symbols Doollee.com
- ^ Stephen Holden Stage: Short Plays on Gay Themes The New York Times, September 20, 1987.
- ^ Robert Patrick Doollee.com
- ^ Gary L. Day Weinberg’s GET USED TO IT!” PGN March 27 - April 2, 1992,
- ^ Anita Gates THEATER REVIEW; Crisp, So Stylishly 89, Gets To the Point, Well, Crisply The New York Times, June 26, 1998.
- ^ Happy Gay Day TODAY IN HISTORY (May 19) 1980 The Malcontent website
- ^ Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival
- ^ Long Island Journal The New York Times, October 10, 1982.
- ^ John Corry HERO OF MY OWN LIFE, STORY OF AIDS PATIENT The New York Times, June 23, 1986.
[edit] Other Productions (Reviews)
- Fascination Michael’s Thing, 1975
- Dancing for Our Lives Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, January 12, 1986.
- Good Sense and Dancing on Ice James A. Lobata, oobr, Summer 1988.
- Thor’s Day Edward Crosby Wells (author) website
- Meet Marvin D.J.R. Bruckner, The New York Times, April 29, 1993
[edit] External links
- TOSOS and The Glines An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture website
- Info and pics on Gulp! One actor’s experience, Queer Music Heritage website
