A Literary And Theatrical Legacy On Display In 'The Inheritance'
Playwright Matthew Lopez's two-part epic about gay life after the AIDS crisis is based on the work of E.M. Forster — who appears in the play — and bears some similarities to Angels in America.
Playwright Matthew Lopez is not coy about his influences. In the two-part, seven-hour play about the New York gay community that opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway Sunday night, he pays homage to English novelist E.M. Forster, not just by appropriating the plot of his novel but making the author — who lived as a closeted gay man — a character in the play. And by situating his magnum opus in New York City and telling the story over two parts, Lopez invites comparisons to . (Sometimes the hat tip comes with a wink: One of
