Carlsbad Playreaders Presents Tony Award-Winning Play March 19

Carlsbad Playreaders' 2012 season continues on Monday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. with Larry Kramer’s Tony Award-winning play The Normal Heart. Set in 1981, the play unflinchingly examines the sexual politics and cultural discrimination in New York during the outbreak of the AIDS crisis. The Normal Heart is recommended for mature audiences.

The Normal Heart was recently revived on Broadway starring Ellen Barkin, Mark Harelik, Joe Mantello and Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory). Receiving three Tony Awards, The New York Times raved that The Normal Heart “…blasts you like an open, overstoked furnace … your eyes are pretty much guaranteed to start stinging before the first act is over…”

“Though set in the eighties, Kramer’s piece is more relevant than ever," said Carlsbad Playreaders Artistic Director Maelyn Gándola. "This conversation, and its socio-political implications are still an active dialogue. How wonderfully exciting and empowering to live in a culture today that engenders and encourages activism; and what better modality to grapple with the thematically-challenging than theatre?”

The Calsbad Playreaders reading is directed by Francis Gercke and features Kevane Coleman, Melissa Fernandes, Tom Hall, Jon Sachs and Daren Scott.

The play reading will take place at Carlsbad City Library’s Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, located at 1775 Dove Lane. Suggested donations of $5 for adults and $1 for students are taken at the door.

For more information about Carlsbad Playreaders' 2012 season, visit www.carlsbadplayreaders.org. Carlsbad Playreaders is made possible in part by the Carlsbad Library and Arts Foundation’s Robert H. Gartner Cultural Endowment Fund.