Martin Sherman’s career took off in 1979, when his play Bent debuted at London’s Royal Court Theatre. This harrowing account of the way gay men were persecuted in Nazi Germany is now considered seminal, but at the time it was audacious and groundbreaking. In his deeply moving new memoir, On the Boardwalk, Sherman says that even the Royal Court’s artistic director was trepidatious. “Stuart Burge called several times to ask if I mighthellip;

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