Bibliography

Materials

Angels in America, Tony Kushner:

Books
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America : A Gay Fantasia on Nationals Themes (London: Nick Hern, 2007).
- The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America, Isaac Butler and Dan Kois (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2018).
- Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America, Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger (Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1997).
Essays/Articles
- Jonathan Freedman, “Angels, Monsters, and Jews: Intersections of Queer and Jewish Identity in Kushner’s Angels in America,” PMLA 113, no. 1 (January 1998), https://doi.org/10.2307/463411.
- Ranen Omer-Sherman, “The Fate of the Other in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America,” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 32, no. 2 (June 2007), https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/32.2.7.
- Jyl Lynn Felman, “Lost Jewish (Male) Souls: A Midrash on Angels in America,” Tikkun 10, no. 3 (1995).

Bent, Martin Sherman:

Books
- Martin Sherman. Bent (Oxford: Amber Lane Press, 1979).
- Richard Plant, The Pink Triangle : The Nazi War against Homosexuals (New York: H. Holt, 1988).
Essays/Articles
- Samantha Mitschke. "Bent and the Staging of the Queer Holocaust Experience." History, Memory, Performance. Studies in International Performance. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
- Melissa C. Lupo. "The Political Repercussions of Homosexual Repression of Masculinity and Identity in Martin Sherman's Bent" (Thesis). (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 2010).
- Rob Weinert-Kendt, “How ‘Bent’ Made Gay History,” Center Theatre Group, July 3, 2015.

Falsettos, William Finn:

Books:
- James Lapine and William Finn, Falsettos, (New York: Samuel French, 2010).
Essays/Articles:

Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me, Larry Kramer:

Books:
- Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart (London: Nick Hern Books, 1998).
- Larry Kramer, The Destiny of Me (London: Nick Hern Books, 1993).
Essays/Articles:
- John M. Clum, “'A Culture That Isn’t Just Sexual’: Dramatizing Gay Male History,” Theatre Journal 41, no. 2 (May 1989): 169.
- George Newtown, “Sex, Death, and the Drama of AIDS,” The Antioch Review 47, no. 2 (1989): 209.
- Frank Rich, “Theater: ‘the Normal Heart,’ by Larry Kramer,” The New York Times, April 22, 1985, sec. Theater.
- Frank Rich, “From Larry Kramer, His Anguished Story,” The New York Times, October 21, 1992, sec. Theater.
- Larry Rottmann, “The Battle of ‘The Normal Heart,’” Academe 76, no. 4 (1990): 30.

Significant Other, Joshua Harmon:

Books:
- Joshua Harmon, Significant Other (New York: Samuel French, 2017).
Essays/Articles:
- Alexis Soloski. "With 'Significant Other,' Joshua Harmon Happily Writes About the Unhappy," The New York Times, June 11, 2015.
- Christopher Wallenberg. "One is the loneliest number in Harmon’s ‘Significant Other’," The Boston Globe, September 8, 2016.

Creatives

Howard Ashman:

Movies:
- Howard, dir. Don Hahn (Disney+, 2018)
Essays/Articles:
- Will Stroude, “How One Gay Man’s Battle with Aids Shaped Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast,’” Attitude, March 1, 2017.

Harvey Fierstein:

Books:
- Harvey Fierstein, I Was Better Last Night : A Memoir (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022)
Movies:
- The Celluloid Closet, dir. Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman (HBO, 1996)
Essays/Articles:
- Harvey Fierstein, "Our Prejudices, Ourselves" editorial. The New York Times, April 13, 2007.
- Harrison Hill, “Sex, Showbiz, and Lots of Singing: Harvey Fierstein Looks Back on an Unusually Vivid Career,” GQ, March 2, 2022.
- Simi Horwitz, “Harvey Fierstein Gets ‘Kinky’ and Discusses His Jewish Roots,” The Forward, April 11, 2013.
- Jesse Oxfeld, “Gay and Jewish Themes Converge Once Again in ‘Torch Song,’” The Forward, October 20, 2017.

Larry Kramer:

Books:
- Lawrence Mass, We Must Love One Another or Die : The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999).
- Randy Shilts, And the Band Played on : Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987).
- David France, How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS. (Picador, 2016).
Movies:
- Larry Kramer in Love and Anger, dir. Jean Carlomusto (HBO, 2015).
- United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, dir. Jim Hubbard (2012).
Essays/Articles:
- Larry Kramer, “1,112 and Counting,” The New York Native, March 27, 1983.
- Michael Specter, “Larry Kramer, Public Nuisance,” The New Yorker, May 6, 2002.

Stephen Sondheim:

Books:
- Meryle Secrest, Stephen Sondheim: A Life. (London: Bloomsbury, 1999).
- Stephen Sondheim, Finishing the Hat : Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011).
- Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat : Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011).
Movies:
- Six by Sondheim, dir. James Lapine (HBO, 2013).
Essays/Articles:
- Raymond-Jean Frontain. "Sondheim, Stephen (b. 1930)". GLBTQ: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture (2015).
- Gabrielle Hoyt, “Kaddish for Steve: On the Jewishness of Sondheim,” American Theatre, January 28, 2022.
- Bruce Weber, “Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91,” The New York Times, November 26, 2021, sec. Theater.
- Esther Zuckerman, “Stephen Sondheim, Musical Theater Giant, Dies at 91,” Vanity Fair, November 26, 2021.

Paula Vogel:

Essays/Articles:
- Mary Louise Parker, “Paula Vogel by Mary Louise Parker,” BOMB Magazine, October 1, 1997.
- Ruthie Fierberg, “Playwright Paula Vogel Examines Her Jewish Identity through Indecent,” Playbill, April 24, 2017.
- Max Sparber, “Paula Vogel: Guardian of Culture,” American Jewish World, February 7, 2018.
- Sara Warner, “Paula Vogel,” in Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theatre (Taylor & Francis, 2022).

Topics

Jewish/Theatre studies:

Books
- Stuart J. Hecht, Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
- Stewart F. Lane, Jews on Broadway : An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers (North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2017).
- Yair Lipshitz, Theatre and Judaism (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019).
- Andrea Most, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004).
- Edna Nahshon, Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context (Netherlands: Brill, 2012).

Jewish/Queer studies:

Books
- Marla Brettschneider, The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012).
- Steven Greenberg, Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).
- Andreas Kraß, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Yuval Yonay, Queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine: Biographies and Geographies (Bielefeld, 2021).
- Noam Sienna and Judith Plaskow, A Rainbow Thread : An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 (Philadelphia: Print-O-Craft Press, 2020).

Queer/Theatre studies:

Books
- Kim Marra and Robert A Schanke, Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History (Ann Arbor: University Of Michigan Press, 2002).
- Jimmy A Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout, Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theatre (Oxford: Routledge, 2022).
- Nick Salvato, Uncloseting Drama: Modernism's Queer Theatres (Yale University Press, 2010).

Queer/Jewish/Theatre studies:

Essays/Articles
- David Meron Gorshein, “Bursting the Bubble: Queer Performances in the Jewish Diaspora” Dissertation. (UCLA, 2011).
- Alisa Solomon, “Performance: Queerly Jewish/Jewishly Queer in the American Theater,” in The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
- Carol Zemel, “From Halakha to Hadassah: Queer Jewish Performance Art,” Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies 46, no. 2012 (January 1, 2012): 349–63.