Founded in 1976 by

John Glines John Glines (October 11, 1933 – August 8, 2018) was an American playwright and theater producer. He won a Tony Award and multiple Drama Desk Awards during his producing career. Playwright and producer Born in Santa Maria, California, Glines gra ...

, Barry Laine and Jerry Tobin, The Glines is an American

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organization based in

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, 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'' won

Tony Awards The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual cer ...

for Best Play and Best Actor. *The Glines/ Circle Repertory Company co-production of

William M. Hoffman William M. Hoffman (April 12, 1939 – April 29, 2017) was an American playwright, theatre director, editor, and professor. Life and career Hoffman was born in New York City to Johanna (Papiermeister), a jeweler, and Morton Hoffman, a caterer. ...

's '' As Is'' won the 1985

Drama Desk Award The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre. First bestowed in 1955 as the Vernon Rice Award, the prize initially honored Off-Broadway productions, as well as Off-off-Broadway, and those in the vicinity. Fo ...

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! ''Whoop-Dee-Doo!'' is a deliberately ramshackle musical revue subtitled "a postage stamp extravaganza". It is named after the 1903 Broadway revue ''Whoop-Dee-Doo''. It was conceived, created and developed by Charles Catanese, Howard Crabtree, Di ...

'' 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 Jane Chambers (March 27, 1937 – February 15, 1983) was an American playwright. She was a "pioneer in writing theatrical works with openly lesbian characters". Chambers was born in Columbia, South Carolina, but grew up in Orlando, Florida, where ...

’s ''

Last Summer at Bluefish Cove ''Last Summer at Bluefish Cove'' is a play by Jane Chambers. It is a landmark piece in Lesbian dramatic literature as the first mainstream play of its kind. The play focuses on the friendships and journeys of the eight women at Bluefish Cove and ...

'', ''My Blue Heaven'' and ''The Quintessential Image'' * Doric Wilson’s ''A Perfect Relationship'' and ''Forever After'' *

Victor Bumbalo Victor Bumbalo (born November 30, 1948) is an American actor and playwright. Early life and education Bumbalo graduated from the Masters Program in Theater at Bennington College. In New York City, Bumbalo became immersed in the Off- and Off-Off ...

’s ''Niagara Falls'' *Richard Hall’s ''Love Match'' *Sydney Morris’s ''If This Isn’t Love!'' and ''The Wind Beneath My Wings'' *Arch Brown’s ''Newsboy'' and ''Sex Symbols'' *Joseph Pintauro’s ''Wild Blue'' *Anthony Bruno’s ''Soul Survivor'' *

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’s ''T-Shirts'' and ''Untold Decades'' * Tom Wilson Weinberg’s musical ''Get Used to It!'' *'' An Evening With Quentin Crisp'' *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. 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''). 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

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.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 Alvin Baltrop (December 11, 1948 – February 1, 2004) was an American photographer. Baltrop's work focused on the dilapidated Hudson River piers and gay men during the 1970s and 1980s prior to the AIDS crisis. Early life Baltrop was born i ...

Pat Bond Pat Bond (February 27, 1925 – December 24, 1990) was an American actress who starred on stage, television and movies. She was openly lesbian and in many cases she was the first gay woman people saw on stage. Her career spanned some 40 year ...

Matthew Broderick
Charles Busch

Thomas Calabro Thomas F. Calabro (born February 3, 1959) is an American actor and director. Biography Calabro graduated from Fordham University in New York City. Calabro began his acting career in theatre with various roles in New York. His first role was a ...

Andrea Dworkin
Harvey Fierstein
Estelle Getty

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Judy Grahn Judy Grahn (born July 28, 1940) is an American poet and author. Inspired by her experiences of disenfranchisement as a butch lesbian, she became a feminist poet, highly-regarded in underground circles before achieving public fame. A major influe ...

Jonathan Hadary

Lou Liberatore Lou Liberatore (born 1959) is an American actor. A graduate of Fordham University, Liberatore made his New York City stage debut in the 1982 Circle Repertory Company production of '' Richard II''. As a permanent member of the company he appeared ...

Audre Lorde
Dan Lauria
Armistead Maupin
Mark Morris

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Felice Picano

James Purdy James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, from his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work ha ...

John Rechy
Ned Rorem

Mercedes Ruehl Mercedes J. Ruehl (; born February 28, 1948) is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, an ...

Vito Russo
Richard Skipper
Jean Smart
Fisher Stevens
Robin Tyler

Edmund White Edmund Valentine White III (born 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. France made him (and later ) de l'Ordr ...

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

Jennifer Dunning, ''The New York Times'', January 12, 1986.

James A. Lobata, ''oobr'', Summer 1988.

Edward Crosby Wells (author) website
''Meet Marvin''
D.J.R. Bruckner, ''The New York Times'', April 29, 1993

glbtq, a web-based "encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture"

One actor’s experience, ''Queer Music Heritage'' website, compiled by

JD Doyle JD Doyle (born September 24, 1947) is an American LGBT music and history archivist/historian and radio producer. He is a staff member of the weekly radio show Queer Voices and produces the monthly radio shows ''Queer Music Heritage'' and ''OutRa ...

The Glines Records (MS 1920).
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
John Glines Papers (MS 1895).
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Glines, The Non-profit organizations based in New York City Organizations established in 1976 LGBT organizations in the United States Theatre in New York City