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‘The Inheritance’ on Broadway: An Epic Story of Gay Ghosts, for Good and Bad

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One of the buzziest plays on Broadway, ‘The Inheritance’ spins epically and soapily through time to tell a powerful, if flawed, story about the power of LGBTQ history and healing.

Tim Teeman
Tim Teeman 

Senior Editor and Writer

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Matthew Murphy

At the end of the first part of The Inheritance, the snuffling of audience members became very audible. (Warning: Spoilers follow.)

The reason: Down both aisles, and amassing on stage, were actors playing the ghosts of gay men who died of AIDS

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Tim Teeman

Tim Teeman

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