This morning we will chronicle the journey "The Normal Heart" took from stage to screen, and this afternoon we will do the same with "The Trip to Bountiful." If you want to follow along, and interact, with all of BroadwayWorld's Emmy coverage, check At the TCA panel for Normal Heart yesterday, Murphy spoke of his … Read more
Grade • A DVD •The Normal Heart” is a stunning play-turned-stunning TV movie that's about the early days of the AIDS crisis — and yet it's so much more. Directed and produced by Ryan Murphy If one had to identify television's "most valuable player" of 2013-2014, one would have good reason to pick Ryan Murphy, … Read more
The Sunday premiere of The Normal Heart — Ryan Murphy's stellar adaptation of Larry Kramer's play about the HIV-AIDS crisis in early '80s New York City — was a solid hit for HBO. The movie, which starred Mark Ruffalo and “The Normal Heart” premiered Sunday to above-average numbers for an original HBO movie, drawing nearly … Read more
And then it hit me, what if I had a viewing party for the HBO movie version of The Normal Heart with pal, playwright and performance artist Dan Fishback, whose thirtynothing (his 2011 play, which he is now adapting into a book) is a personal view of Best known for portraying Sheldon Cooper on "The … Read more
The Normal Heart (which airs May 25 on HBO) is the story of a great love. Not just the one between Ned (Mark Ruffalo) and his boyfriend Felix (Matt Bomer), who's dying of AIDS, or the one that finds both men fighting to keep “The Normal Heart” premiered Sunday to above-average numbers for an original … Read more
The Normal Heart, directed by Glee showrunner Ryan Murphy, is the story of Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), a gay man in the 1980s whose friends are succumbing to a new, fatal illness — AIDS. Based on the play of the same name by Larry Kramer — who also The Normal Heart is not as powerful … Read more
The Sunday premiere of The Normal Heart — Ryan Murphy's stellar adaptation of Larry Kramer's play about the HIV-AIDS crisis in early '80s New York City — was a solid hit for HBO. The movie, which starred Mark Ruffalo and The critical hosannas for Sunday's Mad Men mid-season finale didn't translate into any sort of … Read more
The hit fantasy series is taking a week off so HBO can air its new movie, The Normal Heart. Directed by Ryan Murphy (Glee, Nip/Tuck), Normal Heart is based on a famous 1985 semi-autobiographical play by Larry Kramer, which recently enjoyed a The opening moments of HBO's "The Normal Heart," premiering Sunday, May 25, perfectly … Read more
What luck to have lived long enough to blithely watch an HBO movie adaptation of Larry Kramer's 1985 play, "The Normal Heart," from the vantage point of 2014, where the HIV and AIDS epidemic can be included on a list of crises abated. (Or at least be The hit fantasy series is taking a week … Read more
HBO's new movie The Normal Heart is based on a quasi-autobiographical play by Larry Kramer about the early days of the AIDS epidemic in New York. The most breathtaking achievement of that play is its timing—it was Watching Ryan Murphy's HBO adaptation of “The Normal Heart” isn't always easy, but there are reasons you should … Read more