Robert Patrick, early, and prolific, playwright of gay life, dies at 85
Over the decades he wrote hundreds of plays as well as countless songs, poems, and short stories, a memoir, and at least one novel.
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Over the decades he wrote hundreds of plays as well as countless songs, poems, and short stories, a memoir, and at least one novel.
He got his start at Caffe Cino, the birthplace of Off Off Broadway. His first of hundreds of plays, performed there in 1964, is a milestone of gay theater.
“I followed a pretty boy in,” Robert Patrick told Michael Musto in Paper magazine. “His name was Johnny Dodd. I was walking down the street. It was my first
Robert Patrick, the prolific playwright who wrote Kennedy's Children, which starred Shirley Knight in a Tony-winning turn, has died. He was 85.
Robert Patrick, a playwright in the Off Off Broadway movement who won wider acclaim for 1975's Kennedy's Children, died April 23.