Torch Song Trilogy

Written By Harvey Fierstein
Directed By J.J. Marrs

June 12-28, 2008
Thursday-Saturday Nights at 7:30pm

Performed at Playhouse Costume Cooperative

Torch Song Trilogy is constructed of three moving plays told over three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s, through Stonewall, the AIDS crisis, and other ground-breaking milestones for the LGBT community.

Featuring: Chuck Duck, Chuck Evans, Debbie Smith, Gabrielle Metz, Trevor Clay, Wesley Glass, and Flannery Whaley

“Four Stars!”
— The Birmingham News

Harvey Fierstein made his professional acting debut at La Mama ETC in 1971 in Andy Warhol's only play, Pork. He followed that with appearances in more than 60 Off-Off-Broadway productions before he began his career as a playwright. Early works like Flatbush Tosca and Cobra Jewels led to his underground hit Torch Song Trilogy, which transferred Off-Broadway in 1981, and then to Broadway in 1982, where it won the Best Play Tony Award as well as Drama Desk, Obie, and Dramatist Guild Awards. As an actor, Fierstein also won Tony, Drama Desk, and Theater World Awards for his portrayal of the lead. A revival of Torch Song at the Second Stage was warmly received in the fall of 2017 and returned to Broadway in 2018. Harvey won his third Tony for the libretto of the musical La Cage Aux Folles, which is the only show in history to have won Best Musical and two Best Revival of a Musical Tony Awards. His other plays include: Newsies (Tony nominated for Best Book), Kinky Boots (Tony Award for Best Musical, nominated for Best Book), A Catered Affair (Drama League winner Outstanding Musical of the Year), Casa Valentina, Safe Sex, Spookhouse and Legs Diamond. Fierstein was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2008.