‘The Normal Heart’ Director Ryan Murphy Praises Larry Kramer As ‘The Most Important Gay Activist Of All Time”, Reveals They’d Planned Broadway Collaboration
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deadline.comBy Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway Critic Ryan Murphy, the producer and director who finally got Larry Kramer’s groundbreaking play The Normal Heart to screen, remembered his late friend and collaborator today as “the single greatest and most important gay activist of all time.” “His fight changed the health care system as we know it,” Murphy wrote in a lengthy Instagram post today. “I admired him above all others.
He deserved the Medal of Freedom.” Kramer’s harrowing 1985 play about the early years of the AIDS crisis in New York had a long and troubled Hollywood history.
The project languished in development hell for three decades, most famously with Barbra Streisand attached as director. The log jam finally broke in 2011 when
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