The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival is pleased to announce the world premiere of Adam & Brian, written by Craig Donnelly. The play will take its first bow on Monday, August 7th at 12:30 PM, with an evening performance on Wednesday, August 9th at 7:30 PM and a closing performance on Sunday August 13th at 3:00 PM. All showings will take place at the The 14th Street Y Theater which is located at 344 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003. Tickets are $25 online/$30 at the door. For additional information, please visit BroadwayBoundFestival.com

“We may live in a more tolerant nation, but there are still many LGBTQA members here and around the world who are at risk of violence from members of society that do not agree with the gay “lifestyle.” For every success story, there is still extreme backlash from simple-minded people who do not understand the detriments they are provoking. The story of Adam & Brian proves that the ramifications of a hate crime extend far beyond the physical scars and bruises. It’s an important story to tell and one that will further promote human equality. At the end of the day, they are two people who are deeply affected by something that should never have happened to them.”
– Craig Donnelly

FULL SYNOPSIS: Often what defines us, is not the tragedy itself, but how we grieve and move forward in the aftermath. Adam and Brian are a gay couple living in New York City. One night, on their way home, they are brutally attacked by three strangers and sent to the hospital. The play begins with Adam and Brian’s first time back to their apartment since the tragedy. What unfolds throughout, is not only how they recover physically, but how the damage has affected them emotionally. Both men cope in different ways and are at odds with how to regain their inner stabilities. The two men ultimately realize that this one event has changed who they are as individuals, and what that means for their relationship.

Broadway Bound Theatre Festival’s Adam and Brian is stunning, a prescient choice for theatregoers looking for complex, intelligent drama.  At the play’s opening we find that Adam and Brian, a young gay couple, have endured a vicious and unprovoked gay bashing. As their relationship progresses after the attack, this tragic event is juxtaposed with the possibility of their marriage at a Hawaiian destination wedding. That evocative metaphor, an island paradise set within and against the mean streets of New York City, haunts this lovely piece of theatre; tropical thunderclouds hover over the couple’s broken household. As we are led further into the wake of the attack, Craig Donnelly’s play makes us question ourselves again and again; the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, at the beginning of its journey this year (under the assured hand of Lenore M. Skomal), has offered the members of the LGBTQ community a chance to examine the beginnings of their newly won marital rights. Pauline Kael once wrote of her early exposure as a child to silent films, “We were in at the beginning, when something new was added to human experience,” and that’s true for the LGBTQ community right now. Donnelly is …Read more