The Boys in the Band is compiled with Crowley's other most important works, A Breeze from the Gulf and For Reasons That Remain Unclear, in Three Plays by Mart Crowley, with a forward by Gavin Lambert. It was published by Alyson Publishers in 1996.

Several lesser-known gay dramas from recent times are collected in the 1996 anthology Staging Gay Lives: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Theater, edited by John M. Clum and published by Westview Press.

John-Manuel Andriote's 1999 book Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America gives some perspective for how differently gay men and women see the world today from the way they saw the world when Crowley wrote this play.

Tony Kushner won the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his 1991 work Millennium Approaches and another Tony in 1994 for Peristroika; together, these plays comprise a sprawling...