With director Joe Mantello’s fantastic adaptation of The Boys in the Band now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Matt Bomer about being part of the production. If you’re not aware, back in 2018, Mantello and his all-openly gay cast including Zachary Quinto, Jim Parsons, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Michael Benjamin Washington, Tuck Watkins, Brian Hutchison, and Robin De Jesús, put on a revival of Mart Crowley’s iconic 1968 work, where it played to sold out audiences and went on to win the 2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. After the …
With director Joe Mantello’s fantastic adaptation of The Boys in the Band now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Jim Parsons about being part of the production. If you’re not aware, back in 2018, Mantello and his all-openly gay cast including Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Michael Benjamin Washington, Tuck Watkins, Brian Hutchison, and Robin De Jesús, put on a revival of Mart Crowley’s iconic 1968 work, where it played to sold out audiences and went on to win the 2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. After …
With director Joe Mantello’s fantastic adaptation of The Boys in the Band now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Zachary Quinto about being part of the production. If you’re not aware, back in 2018, Mantello and his all-openly gay cast including Quinto, Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Michael Benjamin Washington, Tuck Watkins, Brian Hutchison, and Robin De Jesús, put on a revival of Mart Crowley's iconic 1968 work, where it played to sold out audiences and went on to win the 2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. After …
The entire cast and director of the 2018 Tony-winning Broadway revival of Mort Crowley's The Boys in the Band return for this 2020 Netflix film adaptation, and you can feel it. There's a quiet confidence, a mode of working both locked-in and free to be free, a commanding grasp of the material's most elliptical, complicated aspects in every frame of the film. The audience is drawn in, needing to know what happens next, needing to think and re-think every moment. Joe Mantello's work is richly captivating, accessible yet unpredictable, and likely one of …
Netflix has unveiled the first The Boys in the Band trailer from the upcoming feature film adaptation, which will released on September 30th. Based on the Broadway play of the same name by Mart Crowley, the story revolves around a group of gay friends who reunite to celebrate one of their birthdays, only to have their evening upended when the host’s potentially closeted roommate shows up uninvited. Joe Mantello, who directed the stage play, also directed this feature film adaptation having previously worked with Ryan Murphy on the HBO movie The Normal Heart and the Netflix limited series Hollywood. …
Netflix has unveiled the first The Boys in the Band movie images from the upcoming adaptation, also announcing that it’ll be released on September 30th. Based on the Broadway play of the same name by Mart Crowley, the story revolves around a group of gay friends who reunite to celebrate one of their birthdays, only to have their evening upended when the host’s potentially closeted roommate shows up uninvited. Joe Mantello, who directed the stage play, also directed this feature film adaptation having previously worked with Murphy on the HBO movie The Normal Heart and the Netflix limited …