Torch Song Trilogy Summary
Harvey Fierstein

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Torch Song Trilogy Summary

Torch Song Trilogy is a play that straddles genres, existing as both a comedy and a melodrama. Harvey Fierstein's play opened at New York's Richard Allen Center in October, 1981, and moved to the Off-Broadway Actors Playhouse in January of 1982. The play opened on Broadway in June, 1983, at the Little Theatre and continued for a long and successful run, having won several awards, including two Antoinette "Tony" Perry Awards.

The work is semi-autobiographical; Fierstein...

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John Glines, the Off-Off-Broadway producer of Harvey Fierstein's landmark play Torch Song Trilogy (1981), summed up Fierstein's importance to the development of American drama in the last decades of t... Read more

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