Torch Song Trilogy

MAY 31-JUNE 10, 2018

Torch Song Trilogy
  • By Harvey Fierstein
  • Directed by
    Chris McCoy
  • Stage Manager
    Grace Urquhart
  • Set Designer
    Nathan Wyman
  • Light Designer
    Zoe Spangler
  • Sound Operator
    Amanda Underwood
  • Costume Coordinator
    Steven Ansel James
  • Assistant Stage Manager/Props Master
    Courtney Klein
  • Graphic Design
    Alex Morales

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 1970s and 1980s, through Stonewall, the AIDS crisis, and other ground-breaking milestones for the LGBT community. Told with a likable, human voice, Arnold struggles through love, disease, and the challenges of child-rearing. In the tradition of The Normal Heart and The Pride, and one of the pre-cursors for the seminal Angels in America, this award-winning and popular work broke new ground in the theatre: "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."

Cast

  • ARNOLD BECKOFF
    Philip blue owl Hooser
  • ED REISS
    Derrick Freeman
  • LAUREL
    Jennifer Loumiet
  • ALAN
    Brent Custer
  • MRS. BECKOFF
    Ellie DeShon
  • DAVID
    Alex Leondedis
  • LADY BLUES
    Shelby Bessette & Lynn McCutchen
  • ENSEMBLE
    Sam Hoffman & Raheem Fielder-Bey