How Matthew Lopez Transformed “Howards End” Into an Epic Play About Gay Life
Rebecca Mead on “The Inheritance,” which opens soon on Broadway and reimagines E. M. Forster’s novel as a lovingly wry portrait of New York’s gay community.
Forster was a closeted gay man who found the impossibility of writing truthfully about his desires so crippling that he stopped publishing novels in his forties, suppressing his one explicitly gay-themed book until after his death.