

Torch Song (2018)
Harvey Fierstein
Awards & Recognition
Winner! 1983 Tony® Award for Best Play
"Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First!
The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The four hour-plus play begins with a soliloquy in which he explains his cynical disillusionment with love.
Each act focuses on a different phase in Arnold's life.
In the first, Arnold meets Ed, who is uncomfortable with his bisexuality.
In the second, one year later, Arnold meets Alan, and the two settle down into a blissful existence that includes plans to adopt a child, until tragedy strikes.
In the third, several years later, Arnold is a single father raising gay teenager David.
Arnold is forced to deal with his mother's intolerance and disrespect when she visits from Florida."
-- Wilipedia.
"A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family [...] the zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for."
— Newsweek
"Under the tragedy, the play is gorgeously funny."
— New York Post
About Studio Theatre's Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy is a American lgbtq play written by Harvey Fierstein and published by Samuel French in London (1979).
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