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 ...
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 ...
3 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists Written by Harvey Fierstein and licensed through Concord Theatricals, Torch Song follows the journey of Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish drag performer ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
We’ve come a long way . . . haven’t we? On one level, the world Arnold Beckoff inhabits as a gay man in 1974-1980 seems almost quaint. Post Stonewall, pre-AIDS, it feels like a strange bubble of ...
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