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This image released by HBO shows Anthony Ramos in a scene from "In Treatment." (Suzanne Tenner/HBO via AP)
HBO revives 'In Treatment' with Uzo Aduba looking for truth

By Mark Kennedy May. 21, 2021 11:33 AM EDT

FILE - This JuNe 9, 2019 photo shows a view of the stage prior to the start of the 73rd annual Tony Awards in New York. Nominations for the American Theatre Wing’s 74th Annual Tony Awards will be announced on Thursday, Oct. 15. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
'Jagged Little Pill' leads Tony Awards nominations with 15

By Mark Kennedy Oct. 15, 2020 12:23 PM EDT

FILE - This May 12, 2014 file photo shows playwright Larry Kramer at the premiere of HBO Films' "The Normal Heart" in New York. Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, died Wednesday, May 27, 2020 in Manhattan of pneumonia. He was 84. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Larry Kramer used voice, pen to raise consciousness on AIDS

By Mark Kennedy May. 27, 2020 04:15 PM EDT

FILE -This June 12, 2011 file photo shows Larry Kramer, left, and Daryl Roth embracing after they won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for "The Normal Heart" during the 65th annual Tony Awards in New York. Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, died Wednesday, May 27, 2020 in Manhattan of pneumonia. He was 84. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)
Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dies at 84

By Mark Kennedy May. 27, 2020 01:14 PM EDT