Nostalgic ’90s movie lovers will find it hard to forget classics like Mrs. Doubtfire, and even harder to forget Harvey Fierstein’s role as the hilarious and charming Uncle Frank Hillard in the ...

Same, Harvey. Same.in quotes Harvey Fierstein on mediocre straight guys: “There are so few heterosexual men that I look up to” ...

“Newsies,” with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman and book by Harvey Fierstein, is based on the 1992 Disney musical film and inspired by the real-life newsboys’ strike of 1899.

Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song” came to mind, and the pair went so far as to get the rights to produce the show.

Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Musical and based on an uplifting true story and much-loved movie, KINKY BOOTS features Tony and Grammy Award-winning music and lyrics by pop icon Cyndi Lauper ...

Kinky Boots features a book by Harvey Fierstein and a score by Cyndi Lauper. The production will be directed by Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster. Based on the 2005 film, the musical follows ...

In a March Instagram post, accompanied by a photo of himself marching in the 1980s, Fierstein listed several of his plays that he said had been banned from the Kennedy Center.

Many of the songs and monologues were rife with LGBTQ+ themes, including one penned by Harvey Fierstein.

Caitlyn Kim/CPR News Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper welcomes the audience to a Pride concert he helped organize at the Kennedy Center, May 23, 2025.

The small concert hosted by five senators during Pride Month was directed by the lead producer of “Hamilton.” An altered set of “Les Misérables” lyrics poked at the president.

Getty was already deeply entrenched in the queer community, having played Harvey Fierstein’s mother in Broadway’s “Torch Song Trilogy,” the landmark play (and later film) about a gay ...

Esteemed writer and actor Harvey Fierstein was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the theater; Oscar-winning designer Paul Tazewell won for Best Costume Design in a ...