

THE INHERITANCE – Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Matthew Lopez’s THE INHERITANCE, wondrously surmounts - at times, soars above – its sheer scale of two parts in seven hours. Part love story, part literary homage (inspired by E. M. Forster’s “Howard’s End”), part gay rights polemic, and so much more, it’s mostly a storyteller’s story. Playwrights fundamentally, after all is said and done, are storytellers, and that’s how Lopez begins his play. Adam (Samuel H. Levine), one of the dozen gay millenials, one generation remo