THE NORMAL HEART

Bemrose, John. "Casualties of Love." Maclean's 101, No. 12 (14 March 1988): 65.

Favorable review of the first Canadian production of The Normal Heart at the Bathurst Street Theatre in Toronto.

Clum, John M. "A Culture That Isn't Just Sexual': Dramatizing Gay Male History." Theatre Journal 41, No. 2 (May 1989): 169-89.

Places The Normal Heart in the context of plays attempting to construct a gay history.

Henry, William A. IH. "A Common Bond of Suffering." Time, Vol. 125, No. 19 (13 May 1985): 85.

Joint review of The Normal Heart and William Hoffman's As Is. Both plays, Henry observes, "portray anguish and doom in individual human terms and enable audiences of every sexual inclination to grasp a common bond of suffering and mortality."

Levin, Bernard. "Why Gays Must Not Create a Ghetto." The Times, London (28 April 1986): 12.

Takes issues with Kramer's demand in The Normal Heart for, as Levin puts it, "a recognition of a special, separate role, function and position for homosexuals in a hetero-sexual world."

"Politicized Performances: A Symposium." Text and Performance Quarterly 12, No. 4 (October 1992): 362-94.

Includes several essays discussing a production of The Normal Heart at Southwest Missouri State University that created a political controversy.

JUST SAY NO

Kramer, Mimi. "Just Say What?" The New Yorker LXTV, No. 38 (7 November 1988): 134, 137-38.

Negative review of Just Say No that argues that "the discoveries Kramer's play makes—that corruption and sexual hypocrisy exist among the rich and powerful—wouldn't shock a nun."

Simon, John. "Cafe Sobriety." New York Magazine 21, No. 44 (7 November 1988): 109-10.

Censures Just Say No as a failed lampoon, observing that "farce and agitprop do not mix."

THE DESTINY OF ME

Henry, William A. III, "Reborn with Relevance." Time 140, No. 18 (2 November 1992): 69-70.

Favorable evaluation that states: "More than a play about AIDS and death, The Destiny of Me is a play about homosexuality and life."

Kroll, Jack. "You Gotta Have Heart." Newsweek CXX, No. 18 (2 November 1992): 104.

Judges The Destiny of Me "inelegant, even messy, in structure but driven by a fierce honesty and searing pain."

Wolf, Matt. "Destined to Be a Storyteller." The Times, London (9 September 1993): 34.

Asserts that The Destiny of Me "works on a deeper, more painful level" than The Normal Heart.

Additional coverage of Kramer's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 124, 126; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 42; Discovering Authors: Modules—Popular Fiction and Genre Authors Module.