NYT: Matthew Lopez on audience and critical response to "The Inheritance"
NYT: Matthew Lopez on audience and critical response to "The Inheritance"
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1NYT: Matthew Lopez on audience and critical response to "The Inheritance"
Posted: 2/7/20 at 11:29am
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#2NYT: Matthew Lopez on audience and critical response to "The Inheritance"
Posted: 2/8/20 at 1:58pm
“No one piece of writing about our complex, sprawling community will ever tell the entire story, and I believe that is a good thing: It creates an unquenchable thirst for more and more narratives.”
Then why is the play’s advertising campaign so determined to shove a message of inclusivity of the entire LGBT community down our throats? If the show is about alcoholism, why not lead with that?
This is some odd damage control if I’ve ever seen, and I’m surprised the producers let him publish this essay. He’s not wrong - but he also doesn’t discuss why every main character had to be rich, aggressively attractive/thin, and white.
I don’t think this will help him win a Tony in June, but we’ll see.
#3NYT: Matthew Lopez on audience and critical response to "The Inheritance"
Posted: 2/10/20 at 7:55amThis whole piece was a mess of contradictions.
