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wrote that the play is a "breezy series of sketches about gay American life through eight decades..." but "has little of the psychological texture and shading found in Mr. McNally’s best plays...The hot-button topic of gay marriage is the running theme of 'Some Men,' with the attendant questions that
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in 1975, a school librarian proposes to a war veteran. The scenes shift showing gay men in various places: a Harlem nightclub in 1932, the Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village in 1969, an AIDS hospital in 1989, an Internet chat room and a piano bar.
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in the United States over the past 80 years. The play begins and ends with a contemporary gay wedding, relating interconnecting stories of generations of gay men in New York City.
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for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Fred Weller). The play received a nomination for the
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that consists of an interwoven series of stories which chronicle and contrast the lives and attitudes of
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on March 26, 2007, and closed on April 22, 2007. Directed by Trip Cullman, the cast featured
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premiere at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, San Francisco in June–July 2009.
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The Canadian premiere was produced by Raving Theatre in
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Terrence McNally
gay men
Off-Broadway
Sundance Institute
Yulee, Florida
Philadelphia Theatre Company
Off-Broadway
Second Stage Theatre
Fred Weller
Kelly AuCoin
Michael McElroy
Vancouver
British Columbia
West Coast
gay bathhouse
Ben Brantley
The New York Times
Drama Desk Award
Lucille Lortel Award
"McNally's 'Some Men' Premieres in Philly Spring 2006; Durang's 'Macao' in Fall"
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Listing Internet Off-Broadway Database"
the original
"Terrence McNally Chronicles Gay Life"
Associated Press
the original
"Now Playing"
"Raving Theatre - Review of Some Men by Terence McNally"
"Review: Terrence McNally's 'Some Men'"

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