Broadway’s ‘The Inheritance’ Sets Closing Notice
The Inheritance, playwright Matthew Lopez’s two-part drama that re-imagines E.M. Forster’s Howards End as a 21st Century tale set among gay men in Manhattan, will close on Sunday, March 15, producers announced today.
Tony Awards Nominations 2020
The nominations for the 2020 Tony Awards were announced virtually by actor James Monroe Iglehart. Eighteen productions were deemed eligible for Tony nominations this year, a fraction compared to last season’s 34, the slimmed-down roster due of course to Broadway’s COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.
Why The Inheritance Is ‘The Greatest Netflix Binge’ on Broadway
I’m looking for that Cynthia Nixon moment,” John Benjamin Hickey says on a rare day off. “That impossible dream of having two things go at once.”
How The Inheritance's Writer Made a Six-Hour-Long Broadway Play Feel So Urgent
Playwright Matthew Lopez on his new, must-see show's huge ambition, multiple parts, and electrifying performances.
‘The Inheritance’ Takes E.M. Forster Out of the Closet
Bringing Howards End into today’s gay Manhattan, playwright Matthew Lopez shows that “Only Connect” is still a radical message.
What can gay men learn from their elders? To Matthew Lopez, that’s ‘The Inheritance’
Characters and plot points have equivalents in the play, but he has stretched into new themes in a wholly different milieu: a circle of glitteringly witty, chummily affectionate, gay New Yorkers.
Why Audiences Are Sobbing (Loudly) at Broadway’s ‘The Inheritance’
Much more than your typical straight play, sound factors heavily in Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance”—and that’s not just the audible sobs rumbling through the theater at every performance.
Howards End Comes Out
How Matthew Lopez adapted E. M. Forster’s Edwardian novel into the modern-day queer play The Inheritance.
What Generations of Gay Men Hand Down in ‘The Inheritance’
The professional and personal have blurred for young cast members of Matthew Lopez’s play, which offers a communion with victims of the AIDS crisis.
How Playwright Matthew Lopez Found Family Onstage With The Inheritance
"I think the history of the LGBT community can be told as a history of made and found families."
How Howards End Led Matthew Lopez to Write His Unapologetically Gay Magnum Opus The Inheritance
Having won the Olivier for Best New Play, Lopez shepherds his two-part play to the Broadway.
How London Transfer ‘The Inheritance’ Found Its Way Home to Broadway
There’s one scene in “The Inheritance,” the upcoming two-part epic that took London by storm, that will benefit from the show’s transfer to Broadway.
10 Broadway Players to Watch
Lopez has been a talent to watch ever since his 2011 play “The Whipping Man” became one of the most widely produced new American plays of the past decade.
The Inheritance, London's Epic, 7-hour “Play of the Century” Arrives on Broadway
The play shattered audiences in a sold-out run at London’s Young Vic when it premiered in March 2018; The Guardian’s Michael Billington praised director Stephen Daldry’s “crystalline production” and noted that the play “pierces your emotional defenses, raises any number of political issues and enfolds you in its narrative.”