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Larry Kramer's 1985 groundbreaking AIDS-related drama The Normal Heart is enjoying a 20th Anniversary run in Silverlake, by LA's oldest repertory theatre, Company of Angels. The play relays the personal, social, medical, and familial struggles of Ned Weeks (Steven Tynan) in the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic's outbreak in New York City's gay population. Weeks is based on playwright and activist Kramer's own experience, and his formation of the Gay Men's Health Crisis. The play focuses on Weeks and his closest friends and confidantes, including his wealthy and occasionally distant brother Ben (Don Stewart), and his lover, Felix Turner (Paul Eric Jerome). His fellow activists and advocates, who represent a cross-section of homosexual "types," and include the conservative, closeted Bruce Niles (Michael Danyleiko), playboy yuppie Mickey Marcus (Andrew Schark), and the southern belle, Tommy Boatwright (Joseph Gilbert). The team is tended to and roused to action by a straight-shooting, forward-thinking medical advocate, Dr. Emma Brookner (Lauren Gasparo). more ›