The theatre has long been a home for the queer community, both providing a space for queer artists to share their work as well as a place to amplify queer stories. In celebration of Playbill Pride, take a look at some of the plays that brought LGBTQIA+ stories to the stage.
Joe Mantello and Stephen Spinella in Angels in America
James McArdle and Andrew Garfield
Brinkhoff-Moegenburg
Steven Gregan and Jonathan Hogan in As Is
Chris New, Ricky Champ, and Alan Cumming in Bent
Photo by Johan Persson
Jesse Pennington and Phillip James Brannon in Bootycandy
Joan Marcus
Jim Parsons and Matt Bomer in The Boys in the Band
Colman Domingo in A Boy and His Soul
Ann Trevor and Helen Menken in The Captive
John Cameron Mitchell and Jonathan Hadary in The Destiny of Me
Gabriel Ebert and Harvey Fierstein in Gently Down the Stream
Joan Marcus
Katrina Lenk and Adina Verson
Carol Rosegg
James Cusati-Moyer and Ato Blankson-Wood in Slave Play
Matthew Murphy
Cameron Scoggins and Tom Phelan in Hir
John Benjamin Hickey and Anthony Heald in Love! Valour! Compassion!
Martha Swope
Glenn Davis, Jeff Parker, Phillip James Brannon, and Rodrick Covington in Marcus: Or the Secret of Sweet
Patrick Breen and Patrick Heusinger in Next Fall
Joan Marcus
Jamyl Dobson, Leland Fowler, and Edward Mawere
Monique Carboni
D.W. Moffatt and Brad Davis in The Normal Heart
Nicholas L. Ashe, Jonathan Burke, J. Quinton Johnson, Jeremy Pope, Caleb Eberhardt, John Clay III, and Gerald Caesar
John Benjamin Hickey, Kyle Soller, Arturo Luís Soria, Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Dylan Frederick, and Kyle Harris in The Inheritance
Matthew Murphy
John Wesley Shipp and Harvey Fierstein in Safe Sex
Cast of Street Children
Denis O'Hare and Daniel Sunjata in Take Me Out
Joan Marcus
Estelle Getty and Harvey Fierstein in Torch Song Trilogy
Michael Rosen and Michael Urie in Torch Song
Joan Marcus
Erik King and Nathan Lee Graham in Wig Out!
Carol Rosegg
Richard Gere and David Dukes in Bent
James Hamilton
Michael Urie in Buyer & Cellar
Anne Revere and Katherine Emery in The Children's Hour
James Brandon as Joshua in Corpus Christi
Photo by Mikki Willis
Alec Baldwin stars in Entertaining Mr. Sloane.
Andréa Burns, Jonny Orsini, and Cady Huffman
Bobby Steggert and Frederick Weller in Mothers and Sons
Geoffrey Streatfield and Lewis Reeves in My Night With Reg
Jefferson Mays in I Am My Own Wife
Joan Marcus
Rosie Perez and Kevin Chamberlin, with (under the bed) Terrence Riordan and Brooks Ashmanskas in The Ritz
Michael Countryman, Lisa Emery, Corey Hawkins, John Benjamin Hickey, and Allison Janney in Six Degrees of Seperation
Cast of The Laramie Project
John Behlmann and Gideon Glick in Significant Other
Joan Marcus
