The AIDS Plays Project brings forgotten works by playwrights whose lives were cut short back to the stage

(from left) James Kirkwood, Harry Kondoleon and Cólm Ó Clúbhán. Photos: CBS via Getty Images, Instagram

Go to a gay bar and intentionally have a conversation with a patron twice your age. That’s the advice from Alastair Curtis, a filmmaker, producer, and now—by default—queer historian who’s resurrecting an entire generation of gay playwrights lost to AIDS. 

“A lot of the project has grown out of conversations with queer elders who’ve said, ‘Do you know this writer? Oh, I used to sleep with that writer.’ Or, ‘Oh, do you know about the scandal involving that writer?’ That contellating equality of queer culture is one that I find deeply exciting,” Curtis said in a conversation for Interview magazine.

Founded in 2023, The AIDS Plays Project aims to discover,

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