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In Vienna in 1986, burned-out American pianist Stephen Hoffman is sent to study with Professor Josef Mashkan, first learning to sing Schumann’s Dichterliebe. Mashkan’s anti-Jewish insults strain their relationship until Hoffman’s visit to Dachau prompts him to tell the professor what he experienced there. The lessons uncover Mashkan’s own Holocaust-survivor past and connect sadness and joy in the poetry and music they study.
The Temperamentals is a 2009 play by Jon Marans. It chronicles the founding of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained LGBT rights organization in the United States, and the love affair of two of its founding members, Harry Hay (Thomas Jay Ryan) and Rudi Gernreich (Michael Urie). The title is drawn from the early-20th Century usage of the word "temperamental" as slang for "homosexual". After premiering at The Barrow Group Studio Theater in April 2009, the play began previews off-Broadway at New World Stages on February 18, 2010 and premiered February 28. Producers Darryl Roth and Stacy Shane announced that The Temperamentals would close May 30.
In Vienna in 1986, burned-out American pianist Stephen Hoffman is sent to study with Professor Josef Mashkan, first learning to sing Schumann’s Dichterliebe. Mashkan’s anti-Jewish insults strain their relationship until Hoffman’s visit to Dachau prompts him to tell the professor what he experienced there. The lessons uncover Mashkan’s own Holocaust-survivor past and connect sadness and joy in the poetry and music they study.
The Temperamentals is a 2009 play by Jon Marans. It chronicles the founding of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained LGBT rights organization in the United States, and the love affair of two of its founding members, Harry Hay (Thomas Jay Ryan) and Rudi Gernreich (Michael Urie). The title is drawn from the early-20th Century usage of the word "temperamental" as slang for "homosexual". After premiering at The Barrow Group Studio Theater in April 2009, the play began previews off-Broadway at New World Stages on February 18, 2010 and premiered February 28. Producers Darryl Roth and Stacy Shane announced that The Temperamentals would close May 30.