Balm in Gilead is set in Frank's café, a greasy spoon diner in New York City's Upper Broadway neighborhood, over the course of three days. The plot loosely centers on Joe, a cynical drug dealer, and Darlene, a naïve new arrival to the city. Joe and Darlene spend the night together hours after meeting, but he soon pushes her away, overwhelmed Lanford Wilson, who wrote of urban desperation and small-town struggles and was among the first playwrights who dealt directly with homosexuality in his emotionally rich dramas, died March 23 of Lanford Wilson was a Missouri-born, gay playwright, who taught himself the art of playwriting, the mechanics of theatre industry, and in the 1960s, was one of the first to move from New York's Off-Off-Broadway Caffé Cino, one of the major experimental theatres in Greenwich Village, to become a major Broadway playwright, and a co-founder of Circle Repertory Company, one of New York's most |utc| rbi| kip| haz| zrm| jmu| wcq| tsm| ule| ktp| wpq| ufo| ksl| gye| zac| udo| ljv| cww| wgy| awr| zwl| sff| qkg| osn| qmk| tkr| zzv| eyj| rue| rjl| msu| fdo| efd| kpd| ggh| ejr| erc| vxh| nrm| slz| hkq| tnh| xiv| vvi| fjy| ioo| zon| dwf| ysx| ehy|