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In his play, Lopez physically evokes Forster through a character he calls Morgan, the name by which the novelist’s friends knew him. “It’s a little brazen of me, but I decided that since Forster can no longer speak for himself, I will speak for him in love and gratitude,” the playwright explains.
Nov 7, 2019 · Lopez first encountered the movie adaptation of Forster’s 1910 novel when he was 16. Growing up gay and Puerto Rican in Florida, Lopez was an outsider — a kinship he discovered he shared with Forster, who was also gay, but remained closeted to the public until shortly after his death.
Sep 2, 2019 · Among them are Eric’s boyfriend, a charismatic but tormented writer named Toby Darling, who is Lopez’s version of Helen Schlegel; Adam McDowell, a seductive social climber, and Leo, a homeless...
Oct 18, 2022 · Hats off to the Geffen Playhouse for pulling off with exquisite panache a most difficult double-header in “The Inheritance,” Matthew López’s two-part, Tony-winning gay drama.
- Charles Mcnulty
- Theater Critic
- charles.mcnulty@latimes.com
Playwright Matthew Lopez’s sweeping seven-hour play The Inheritance transposes E.M. Forster’s classic Howard’s End into a tale of modern-day gay New York.
- Richard Jinman
Nov 17, 2019 · Lopez’s use of that house — as a window into the generation of gay men lost to AIDS — packs the play’s most devastating emotional punch.
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Sep 26, 2021 · “The Inheritance,” the sprawling two-part play about gay culture in the wake of the AIDS epidemic, won the Tony Award for best play, making Matthew López the first Latino playwright to win ...
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