{"id":122,"date":"2025-09-25T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:30:00","slug":"in-his-new-memoir-playwright-martin-sherman-reckons-with-his-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"In His New Memoir, Playwright Martin Sherman Reckons with His Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16626\/martin-sherman-memoir-on-the-boardwalk-book-interview-bent-playwright?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=in-his-new-memoir-playwright-martin-sherman-reckons-with-his-past\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/4\/464191.jpeg\" alt=\"On the Boardwalk by Martin Sherman\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Sherman<\/strong>\u2019<span>s career took off in 1979, when his play Bent debuted at London\u2019s 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, <\/span><strong>On the Boardwalk<\/strong><span>, Sherman says that even the Royal Court\u2019s artistic director was trepidatious. \u201cStuart Burge called several times to ask if I mighthellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16626\/martin-sherman-memoir-on-the-boardwalk-book-interview-bent-playwright?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=in-his-new-memoir-playwright-martin-sherman-reckons-with-his-past\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Sherman\u2019s career took off in 1979, when his play Bent debuted at London\u2019s 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}