It's by turns raucously funny, tender, defiant, sad and hopeful. It is a movie that rises to something like greatness on the writing and acting — and the charisma of its star. The direction by ...

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A movie star is born in Torch Song Trilogy, and his name is Harvey Fierstein. Already a star of the stage, Fierstein is not exactly new to film. He had a small role in Garbo Talks, for example ...

In a time when gay characters in movies, plays or television are not only mainstream but routine, a pair of revivals now on local stages shows both the long path ...

On June 5, 1983, “Torch Song Trilogy” beat out “Plenty” and ... Arnold (Michael Urie), references those soapy Susan Hayward movies of the late 1940s and ’50s (“Smash-Up: The ...

At the 37th annual Tony Awards on June 5, 1983, producer John Glines thanked his lover when he accepted the best play honor for Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song Trilogy,” a three-act drama set ...

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When Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song Trilogy” hit Broadway in 1982 ... if any readers remember that 1969 movie. From left, Kendall Kent as Laurel, J. Antonio Teodoro, standing, as Alan ...

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 ...

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