The Worth Street Theater production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart has been extended for a second time. The drama will now run at the Public Theater through August with no official date announced.
The Normal Heart is set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The play lashes out at a society that allowed fear and ignorance to control AIDS-related policies.
Headlined by Raúl Esparza and Joanna Gleason, the cast of this production of The Normal Heart also features Richard Bekins, Fred Berman, McCaleb Burnett, Mark Dobies, Jay Russell, Billy Warlock and Paul Whitthorne.
The mounting, directed by David Esbjornson who took over for Jeff Cohen mid-rehearsals, received mixed-to-positive reviews when it opened on April 21. In his Broadway.com Review of the show, William Stevenson wrote: "Larry Kramer's sad, seething drama The Normal Heart first opened at the Public Theater on April 21, 1985. Exactly 19 years later, the play is back at the Public Theater in a production by the Worth Street Theater Company, and it's as powerful as ever. Searing and heartbreaking, The Normal Heart still makes audiences get angry and cry--which is exactly what Kramer intended."