Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl head the cast of 'Torch Song,' Harvey Fierstein's landmark serio-comedy that gave a voice to gay men searching for love, respect and family in the pre-equality era. By ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- This week marks a theatrical first and major historical moment in Philadelphia. More than 40 years since it premiered on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song" is being ...

Following a successful run Off-Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song officially opens on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre November 1. Directed by Moisés Kaufman (The Laramie Project), the ...

"There's nothing I need from anyone except for love and respect. And anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life." This resounding assertion of self-worth was first made by ...

Patrick Andrew Jones, Kina Kantor, Dean Linnard and Edric Young. Based on torch songs from the 1920’s, Arnold seems to be living in a fantasy world of emotional dramas. In act one we see his comical ...

When Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song Trilogy” hit Broadway in 1982, audiences had never met anyone quite like Arnold Beckoff. Here was a 20-something gay man, a drag queen who sometimes visited the ...

Torch Song Trilogy is also a collection of three one-act plays written in very different styles, but the whole thing knits together into a seamless little epic. A strong play is still only as good as ...

Until Harvey Fierstein changed the tenor of queer theatre in 1982 with the Broadway debut of his Torch Song Trilogy, gay figures in media typically came in three flavors: depressed, bitter, and ...

Uptown Players will open their season with Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song, a new two-act revival of Fierstein's original 1983 Torch Song Trilogy. As the original title indicates, "Torch Song Trilogy" ...

Harvey Fierstein's Tony Award-winning "Torch Song Trilogy" is back on Broadway. Renamed "Torch Song" (@TorchSongBway) and rewritten into two acts, the play follows Arnold Beckoff's struggle to be ...