Tony Kushner Directing THE NORMAL HEART Benefit Reading at The Public

[macbeth]

Posted: 3/26/26 at 3:39pm

Just saw this on Playbill — Tony Kushner is directing a benefit reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart at The Public. I mean... the Angels in America playwright taking on the other towering AIDS-era masterwork? This feels like an event.
 

https://playbill.com/article/tony-kushner-will-direct-the-normal-heart-benefit-reading-for-the-public

Any chance it won't be a million dollars a ticket? 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 3/26/26 at 3:53pm

Bring in Barbra!

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 3/26/26 at 4:18pm

from the release posted on Talking Broadway:

"Benefit tickets for THE NORMAL HEART reading start at $400. Proceeds from this benefit will support The Public and God's Love We Deliver, founded to support people with HIV/AIDS and now providing medically tailored meals, nutrition care, and education to individuals living with serious illness.

Benefit tickets are available online at publictheater.org or via email at [e-mail]. A limited number of $40 tickets will be available via lottery.

Casting and more information will be available closer to the benefit date."

 

[macbeth]

Posted: 3/26/26 at 4:25pm

For Barbra, I'd pay! Plus with the walking help she needed at the Oscars, why not do a part in a wheelchair? Other than that she never would, ahha. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 3/26/26 at 4:59pm

This also directly competes against MCC’s MISCAST gala the same night.