HARVEY FIERSTEIN (1954 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Harvey Fierstein
Catered Affair, A |
| 1st Produced: | Walter Kerr Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | book by Harvey Fierstein, music and lyrics by John Bucchino | |||||
| Synopsis: | based on the teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky and the screenplay by Gore Vidal. A Catered Affair reveals relationships strained to their limits when a couple must decide whether to spend their life savings on a family business or to launch their only daughter's marriage with a lavish catered affair - nytheatre.com | |||||
Flatbush Tosca |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Forget Him |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Freaky Pussy |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Seven transvestite prostitutes live in an American subway gentlemen's toilet | |||||
Fugue In A Nursery |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Gay Presses of New York, New York, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Torch Song Trilogy. Composer: Ada Janik | |||||
| Synopsis: | Four gay lovers and ex lovers meet up in a series of contrapuntal scenes played on a giant double bed. | |||||
International Stud, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Gay Presses of New York, New York, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Torch Song Trilogy | |||||
| Synopsis: | The bi sexual egocentric stares into the mirror only to find that "A thing of beauty is a joy 'till sunrise". | |||||
La Cage Aux Folles |
| 1st Produced: | Palace Theatre, NY | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Music by Jerry Herman; Lyrics by Jerry Herman; Book by Harvey Fierstein; Based on the play "La Cage Aux Folles" by Jean Poiret | |||||
| Synopsis: | gay couple Georges and Albin run a transvestite night club on the French Riviera | |||||
Legs Diamond |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | OCR-zoom-club | |||
| Music: | Cast recording: Zoom Club | 2000 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Music by Peter Allen; lyrics by Peter Allen; book by Harvey Fierstein and Charles Suppon. Based on the film "The Rise and Fall Of Legs Diamond" screenplay by Joseph Landon | |||||
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Manny And Jake |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Safe Sex", Athenaeum, New York, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Manny is praying for sex | |||||
On Tidy Endings |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Safe Sex", Athenaeum, New York, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The ex-wife and the lover dividing up the effects of their dead partner | |||||
Safe Sex |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Safe Sex", Athenaeum, New York, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | three 1 Act plays | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Composer: Ada Janik | |||||
| Synopsis: | An examination of the effects of AIDS on gay men's lives and the world in general | |||||
Spookhouse |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1982 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays International", London, July, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A gay and naïve social worker contributes to societies contradictory attitudes to raising children. | |||||
Torch Song Trilogy |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | The International Stud; Fugue In A Nursery; Widows and Children First! | |||||
| Synopsis: | Portrays gay life not as an isolated phenomenon but in constant relation to the society at large. | |||||
Widows And Children First! |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Gay Presses of New York, New York, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Torch Song Trilogy | |||||
| Synopsis: | Mother, disapproving of homosexuality, mistakes boy for sons lover. Meanwhile real partner contributes to confusion. | |||||