A starry cast leads a one-night only reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. Proceeds from the evening will benefit The Actors Fund and Friends and Deed.
Joel Grey directs the evening, which is set to star Patrick Wilson, Victor Garber, Glenn Close, Jack McBrayer, Joe Mantello, Jason Butler Harner, Michael Stuhlbarg and John Benjamin Hickey.
The Normal Heart focuses on the terrifying early years of the AIDS epidemic in New York. The show played off-Broadway at the Public Theater from April 21 to July 7, 1985