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- Martin Gerald Sherman (born December 22, 1938) is an American dramatist and screenwriter best known for his 20 stage plays which have been produced in over 60 countries. He rose to fame in 1979 with the production of his play Bent, which explores the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust.
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Martin Gerald Sherman (born December 22, 1938) is an American dramatist and screenwriter best known for his 20 stage plays which have been produced in over 60 countries. He rose to fame in 1979 with the production of his play Bent, which explores the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust. Bent was a Tony nominee for Best Play in 1980 ...
May 22, 2023 · A quarter of a century after its premiere, Martin Sherman’s Rose has opened in the West End, starring Maureen Lipman. The American-born playwright tells Nick Smurthwaite about the play’s...
Bent (sometimes stylised as BENT) is a 1979 British-American play by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany , and takes place during and after the Night of the Long Knives .
Sep 9, 2020 · Stage and screen actress Maureen Lipman stars in an online revival of Martin Sherman’s Rose this week. The new production has been filmed and will be made available to download and stream online for three days only, in collaboration with the Hope Mill Theatre.
Jun 2, 2023 · Martin Sherman, now 84, was in his late 70s when he last sent a new play out to theatres. It told the important story of a gay man’s experience of the 20 th century. “It’s not just that we...
Nov 30, 2021 · Martin Sherman changed the direction of theatre in the U.S., the U.K. and all over the world in so many remarkable ways. Since the late 1970s his work's embrace of the full heat of queer and Jewish identity and the larger swirl of history that his plays explore created so much new space for theatre to stretch its legs and grow into.
Jan 1, 1997 · Martin Sherman. Photo by Tom McKitterick. Courtesy of Tom McKitterick. In 1980, as Reagan took power and rewound the national mood, American Martin Sherman moved permanently to London. Bent, his heart-wrenching story of queer love and queer persecution during the Third Reich, had run for nine months on Broadway.
