Founded in 1976 by John Glines, Barry Laine and Jerry Tobin, The Glines is an American not-for-profit organization based in New York City, New York, devoted to creating and presenting gay art to develop positive self-images and dispel negative stereotyping.
Awards In 1983, The Glines production of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song TrilogyMel Gussow, "Theater: Fierstein's Torch Song", The New York Times, November 1, 1981. won Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor. The Glines/Circle Repertory Company co-production of William M. Hoffman's As IsFrank Rich, "Stage: 'As Is,' About AIDS, Opens" , The New York Times, March 11, 1985. won the 1985 Drama Desk Award for Best Play and was Tony-nominated for Best Play, Best Director and Best Actor. The Glines/PSX production of Howard Crabtree's Whoop-Dee-Doo!Stephen Holden, "Theater Review: Dusting Off the Spirit of Ziegfeld", The New York Times, July 5, 1993. won the 1994 Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue and Best Costume Design.
Productions
Other notable successes produced by The Glines include:
Jane Chambers’s The Eight Faces of Jane Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, The Purple Circuit, Old Plays are Gold My Blue HeavenBeth A. Kattelman, Chambers, Jane (1937-1983) glbtq, a web-based "encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture" and The Quintessential ImageStephen Holden, "Review/Theater; Comedy of Self-Acceptance And a Portrait of Its Writer", The New York Times, August 17, 1989. Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship and Forever AfterOn Forever After Doric Wilson website Victor Bumbalo’s Niagara Falls Richard Hall’s Love Match Sydney Morris’s If This Isn’t Love! and The Wind Beneath My WingsIf This Isn’t Love! Doollee.com Arch Brown’s NewsboyArch Brown biography Arch Brown website and Sex SymbolsSex Symbols Doollee.com Joseph Pintauro’s Wild BlueStephen Holden, "Stage: Short Plays on Gay Themes", The New York Times, September 20, 1987. Anthony Bruno’s Soul Survivor Robert Patrick’s T-Shirts and Untold DecadesRobert Patrick Doollee.com Tom Wilson Weinberg’s musical Get Used to It!Gary L. Day Weinberg’s "Get Used to It!" PGN March 27—April 2, 1992, An Evening With Quentin CrispAnita Gates, "Crisp, So Stylishly 89, Gets To the Point, Well, Crisply", The New York Times, June 26, 1998. a number of plays by John Glines, including On Tina Tuna Walk, Men Of Manhattan, Body And Soul and Murder In Disguise plus the First and Second Gay American Arts Festivals in 1980 and 1981.Happy Gay Day "Today in History (May 19) 1980" The Malcontent website Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival
A benefit in 1982 was given by The Glines was at The Town Hall, a performance space in New York City, consisting of three one-act plays: The Quintessential Image by Jane Chambers (with Peg Murray in the title role), Forget Him by Harvey Fierstein (with Harvey Fierstein, Estelle Getty and Court Miller), and A Loss of Memory by Arthur Laurents (with Richard DeFabees, who played Arnold in matinée performances of Torch Song Trilogy).Long Island Journal, The New York Times, October 10, 1982.
The Glines broke into television in 1986 with its acclaimed production of Hero of My Own Life, a documentary on the life of a person living with AIDS.John Corry, Hero of My Own Life, Story of AIDS Patient", The New York Times, June 23, 1986.
Artists
Among the many artists who have appeared (or whose work has appeared) with The Glines are:
Caroline Aaron Alvin Baltrop Pat Bond Matthew Broderick Charles Busch Thomas Calabro Andrea Dworkin Harvey Fierstein Estelle Getty Allen Ginsberg Judy Grahn
Jonathan Hadary Lou Liberatore Audre Lorde Dan Lauria Armistead Maupin Mark Morris Park Overall Felice Picano James Purdy John Rechy
Ned Rorem Mercedes Ruehl Vito Russo Richard Skipper Jean Smart Fisher Stevens Robin Tyler Edmund White Jack Wrangler
References
External links the Glines website John Glines papers, 1971-1998, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Fascination Michael’s Thing, 1975 Dancing for Our Lives Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, January 12, 1986. Good Sense and Dancing on Ice James A. Lobata, oobr, Summer 1988. Thor’s Day Edward Crosby Wells (author) website Meet Marvin D.J.R. Bruckner, The New York Times, April 29, 1993 TOSOS and The Glines, glbtq, a web-based "encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture" Info and pics on Gulp! One actor’s experience, Queer Music Heritage website, compiled by JD Doyle The Glines Records (MS 1920). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. John Glines Papers (MS 1895). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.