Harvey Fierstein News

"I was worried about playing a cross-dressing transvestite, screaming, and hysterical homosexual!" says Douglas Hodge with a smile.

When actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein was 10 and living in Brooklyn, N.Y., his mother took him to see "Fiddler on the Roof" on Broadway.

Fiddler on the Roof opens Dec 8 and runs to Jan 10. Tue-Sat 7:30pm; Wed, Sat, Sun 1:30pm. $30-$225. The Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria.

Television actor Kelsey Grammer has signed on to make his Broadway musical debut in the revival of "La Cage Aux Folles," the show's producers said.

Harvey Fierstein and Andrea Martin, of "Fiddler on the Roof," acknowledge audience applause after they performed during the 19th annual Broadway's Stars in the Alley, in New York's Shubert Alley, Wednesday June 1, 2005.

Garishly dark comedy, if that's imaginable, set in the cutthroat world of children's television.

When over 30 years ago Harvey Fierstein wrote the three plays that came to be known as the 'Torch Song Trilogy', he probably never believed that he created fodder for community theater in a place like Muncie.

One of America's first few openly gay major celebrities, actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein didn't need to "come out" after he became famous and was never "outed" against his will.

Muncie Civic Theatre will present Torch Song Trilogy , a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein, in Main Street Studio Theatre.