The Glines
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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 Trilogy[1] won Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor.
- The Glines/Circle Repertory Company co-production of William M. Hoffman's As Is[2] 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![3] 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[4] Last Summer at Bluefish Cove,[5] My Blue Heaven[6] and The Quintessential Image[7]
- Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship and Forever After[8]
- Victor Bumbalo’s Niagara Falls[citation needed]
- Richard Hall’s Love Match
- Sydney Morris’s If This Isn’t Love! and The Wind Beneath My Wings[9]
- Arch Brown’s Newsboy[10] and Sex Symbols[11]
- Joseph Pintauro’s Wild Blue[12]
- Anthony Bruno’s Soul Survivor
- Robert Patrick’s T-Shirts and Untold Decades[13]
- Tom Wilson Weinberg’s musical Get Used to It![14]
- An Evening With Quentin Crisp[15]
- 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.[16][17]
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).[18]
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.[19]
Artists
Among the many artists who have appeared (or whose work has appeared) with The Glines are: