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 ...

Torch Song follows Arnold’s odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his mother reminds him that he needs one ...

The 2018 revival of Harvey Fierstein's landmark play 'Torch Song' will end its Broadway run on Jan. 6 at New York's Hayes Theater, seven weeks earlier than planned, the production announced Tuesday.

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 ...

2019 Tony Awards Best Costume Design of a Play Clint Ramos 2019 Tony Awards Best Revival of a Play Harvey Fierstein ...

BOTTOM LINE A sweet-tempered but hollow revival of Harvey Fierstein’s groundbreaking play. Nowadays, Broadway routinely hosts shows like “Kinky Boots” or “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” and nobody bats ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song will end its Broadway run on Sunday, January 6, 2019 at the Hayes Theater before embarking on a national tour next fall with star Michael Urie reprising his Broadway role ...