The Boys in the Band was the first commercially successful play to reveal gay life to mainstream America. Alyson is proud to release a special 40th anniversary edtion of the play, which includes an original foreword by acclaimed writer Tony Kushner, along with previously unpublished photographs of Mart Crowley and the cast of the play, and subsequent film!

Set in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, nine of Harold's closest friends are throwing him a birthday party. Guest include a male prostitute, a Roman Catholic alcoholic, a closet gay man, an African-American whose tastes run to white boy; a flamboyantly stereotypical camp gay man; a couple with monogamy issues; and Alan - Michael's allegedly straight college friend, who has something to tell him....

During the party the self-deprecating humour takes a nasty turn as the men grow increasingly inebriated. The party culminates in a game where each man must call someone and tell him he loves him!

160 pages

Mart Crowley is a playwright who lives in New York. His other plays include the autobiographical 'A Breeze from the Gulf' and 'The Men from the Boys'.