In anticipation of the first Broadway production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, the starry cast of Ellen Barkin, Patrick Breen, Mark Harelik, John Benjamin Hickey, Luke Macfarlane, Joe Mantello, Lee Pace, Jim Parsons, Richard Topol and Wayne Alan Wilcox sat down together for a company portrait with theater photographer Joan Marcus. The play, about the early days of the AIDS epidemic, is preparing to open at the Golden Theatre on April 27 helmed by Joel Grey, current star of Anything Goes, who appeared in Kramer's drama during its 1985 maiden voyage at the Public Theater. Take a first look at this all-star cast, then head to the Golden Theatre to see this moving tale in person.
Ellen Barkin, Joe Mantello & John Benjamin Hickey