The Normal Heart

I realize this blog is about food, which is totally awesome, but I've decided to occasionally make quick posts about things going on in the city.  The other night I saw a whole bunch of really talented actors in The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer.  It's a semi-autobiographical play that is centered around the AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 to 1984.  I thought it was extremely powerful and emotionally jarring.  The production is here for the next 12 weeks (something like 96 performances) and if you have a chance I would strongly recommend seeing it.

Here is a letter from Larry Kramer about the production and here are some ways to get involved.

The windiest militant trash 

Important Persons shout

Is not so crude as our wish: 

What mad Nijinsky wrote 

About Diaghilev

Is true of the normal heart; 

For the error bred in the bone 

Of each woman and each man 

Craves what it cannot have, 

Not universal love

But to be loved alone.

              -from W.H. Auden's "September 1, 1939"