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re: How quickly did the American theater begin writing about / discussing / producing works about AIDS?
Posted by: keikekaze 10:23 pm EST 02/17/21
In reply to: How quickly did the American theater begin writing about / discussing / producing works about AIDS? - GrumpyMorningBoy 08:51 pm EST 02/17/21

To answer the question in your title, William Hoffman's As Is and Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart were both produced off-Broadway in the spring of 1985, about four years after AIDS was identified as a specific disease. There may have been earlier plays on the subject, but I'm not aware of them.
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