Lazarus Syndrome

By Bruce Ward

Produced by Theater Alliance

Directed by Paul Douglas Michnewicz

Reviewed by Tim Treanor

In 1983, concert pianist Elliott Liteman (Michael Kramer) discovered that he had contracted AIDS.  He watched in horror and helplessness as dozens of his closest friends, and tens of thousands of other people, died.  How did he, among all the sufferers, manage to survive until the discovery of medicines sufficient to control the disease’s worst effects?  Who knows?  Yet here he is, nearly twenty–five years later.  He no longer gives concerts.  Instead, he lives in his apartment with his spouse-in-fact Stephen (Kevin Boggs) on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, receiving disability, morose and loaded with survivor’s guilt.  [Read more...]