'The Normal Heart': Was HBO's HIV-AIDS Crisis Film Snubbed At Emmys?

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

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

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

normalheart2 HBO Films' The Normal Heart delivered a solid 1.4 million viewers across two plays Sunday night. Debuting nearly three decades after Larry Kramer's play premiered off-Broadway, the Ryan Murphy-directed 

Set in NYC during the onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the early '80s, The Normal Heart follows gay activists and their allies in the medical community as they try to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic. HBO already