HIV/AIDS

Off-Broadway News/Preview: PLAYWRIGHT JOHN J. CASWELL RETURNS TO PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS WITH “JEROME,’ A HAUNTING STORY OF GAY LOVE IN THE ARIZONA DESERT

May 29, 2026 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, Queer > | "Jerome", "Wet Brain", Artistic Director Adam Greenfield, David Roberts, Dustin Wells, HIV/AIDS, John J. Caswell, Ken Barnett, New York Theatre Reviews, Playwrights Horizons, Stephen Spinella, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tyrone Mitchell Henderson

John J. Caswell Jr.’s “Jerome” arrives at Playwrights Horizons this May as both a homecoming and a reckoning. The acclaimed playwright returns to the theater where his previous work “Wet Brain” earned critical acclaim, this time bringing a deeply personal story rooted in his own Arizona childhood—a play about two aging gay men living in isolation in a ghost town,…

Off-Broadway Review: The New Group’s “one in two” in the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center

The title of Donja R. Love’s play “one in two,” currently running in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, is reflective of the alarming 2016 study released by the CDC, which projected that “one in two Black gay and bisexual men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime.” Trapped in a stark white…

Off-Broadway Review: “A Letter to Harvey Milk” at Theatre Row’s Acorn Theatre

The new musical “A Letter to Harvey Milk” has good intentions but becomes confusing as it attempts to address too many issues and wavers from emotional drama to Borsht Belt comedy. Death and grieving, homosexuality, Judaism, rejection, loneliness, and creativity are just a few of the topics unearthed in a short ninety minutes but never fully developed. It almost seems…