The outrageous, hysterical and irresistible off-Broadway performance of Harvey Fierstein in his own quasi-autobiographical Torch Song Trilogy was one of the great New York theatre events of the early ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In Torch Song, the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein’s award-winning Torch Song ...

Martin Markinson, a producer and theater owner who took Torch Song Trilogy to Broadway and returned the venue now known as the Hayes Theatre to theatrical use, died Thursday, January 7 at his home in ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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, ...

Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal ...

This terrific trilogy of plays by Harvey Fierstein – originally premiered separately off-Broadway in 1978 and 1979 and then on Broadway together in 1982 – makes for a long haul of an evening but is ...

Martin Markinson, a producer and theater owner who took Torch Song Trilogy to Broadway and returned the venue now known as the Hayes Theatre to theatrical use, died Thursday, January 7 at his home in ...