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The Normal Heart: Theater Review

Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe co-direct Larry Kramer's play about AIDS, with an ensemble that includes John Benjamin Hickey, Lee Pace and Luke Macfarlane.

NEW YORK – Nothing ages faster onstage than agitprop. But in this shattering revival of Larry Kramer’s polemical howl of anger and despair, The Normal Heart, the 30 years since the first whispers of what became known as AIDS were heard and ignored evaporate in an instant.