Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

HBO’s 2014 film adaptation of The Normal Heart—written by activist Larry Kramer based off his play of the same name and directed by mega-producer Ryan Murphy—is a blistering attack on the lack of ...

If “Hearts in Atlantis” suffers from any overall failing, it’s familiarity. As adapted by veteran screenwriter William Goldman from two stories in a Stephen King collection of the same name, the film ...

First presented in New York in 1985, Larry Kramer’s THE NORMAL HEART takes audiences back to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in New York. An historical work four decades on, it remains an ...

OROVILLE — Tara Stokes, director of “The Normal Heart” opening next week at The Birdcage Theatre, said the show’s theme revolves around how sometimes to win a war you have to start one. “That’s really ...

Set in 1980s New York at the height of the emerging AIDS crisis, the play remains one of the most powerful and urgent works of contemporary theatre, tracing the early years of the epidemic and the ...