It is a play about love and the merciless mayhem love wrecks. ' Fierstein has written a devastatingly comic play with just the right resonances. the zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for.' - Newsweek ' A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family. At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Harvey challenged both gay and straight audiences to champion an effeminate gay man's longings for love and family.' - The Advocate ' A theatrical phenomenon that defied all odds. Workshops and is regularly performed in regional and Play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and The original Broadway run of Torch Song Trilogy earned for it's author and leading man, then-newcomer Harvey Fierstein the 1983 Tony Award for Best Play as well as Best Actor.

Torch Song Trilogy first opened in 1981 Off Off-Broadway at the Richard Allen Center transferred to the Off-Broadway Actors Playhouse and opened on Broadway in 1982 at the at the Little Theatre (now the Helen Hayes Theatre) in Midtown Manhattan. In the tradition of T he Normal Heart and The Pride and one of the pre-cursor for the seminal Angels in America, this award-winning and popular work broke new ground in the theatre. Told with a likeable, human voice, Arnold struggles through love, disease, and the challenges of child-rearing. 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 19s, through Stonewall, and the AIDS crises, and other ground-breaking milestones for the LGBT community. Both attempt other relationships before forming a family with an adopted son – and after the drag queen confronts his disapproving mother – in an evening composed of three one-act plays, with a blues singer singing torch songs as commentary.

A gay drag performer has a tempestuous relationship with his bisexual, closeted lover. Torch Song Trilogy is a full-length comedy by Harvey Fierstein. Torch Song Trilogy has long been a favourite of acting teachers for male/male scenes.

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