Play Explores AIDS Crisis

September 5, 2015

The Normal Heart, a play about the AIDS crisis in New York in the early 1980s, opens at Johnson State College’s Dibden Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16. Performances will continue at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Sept. 17 and 18.

The largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer opened off-Broadway in 1985 and then on Broadway in 2011. It was made into a movie starring Mark Ruffalo in 2014.

The play, which is free and open to the public, is being produced by theater students and faculty in JSC’s Performing Arts Department.

For more information, contact Patrick Houle, Patrick.houle@jsc.edu or 802-635-1310.