From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Today we continue our Tonys coverage with Harvey Fierstein, a nominee for Best Play for Casa Valentina, who chats about how he originally got involved in the Ne…
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: CASA VALENTINA, the new play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, is currently in rehearsals at…
MTC invites you to revisit some of our greatest hits and rare gems with our monthly series, The Show Goes On. In 2014, MTC produced the world premiere of Casa Valentina written by Harvey F…
A gender-bending Catskills resort in 1962 takes center stage at Pride Films & Plays My favorite question as an arts journalist is "Why now?" When Harvey Fier…
THE WRONG WARDROBE? Clothes make the man " even if he dresses as a woman. An entire individuality, it seems, can hang in a closet, as transvestites have proven across the centuries. Casa Val…
Pride Films and Plays announced the Chicago premiere of Harvey Fierstein's "Casa Valentina," playing next summer. The director and cast will be set at a later date. Based on real events, "Ca…
Colonial Players of Annapolis' production of Harvey Fierstein's Casa Valentina, first produced in 2014, offers a powerful look at a still-misunderstood subject. Directed by Mickey Lund, it f…
"Casa Valentina" is not your usual dramedy. It isn't a story you see very often making the rounds at regional theatres. In fact, this production of the work at Colonial Players opening last …
Mickey Lund is a driving force in the Annapolis theater scene. He was one of the founders of Dignity Players, which put on productions exploring themes of social justice and equality, such a…
"Casa Valentina" is funny, poignant, beautifully cast at The Edge
Harvey Fierstein's 2014 Broadway sensation "Casa Valentina" tells the story of a discreet 1960s Catskills getaway for "the girls," that is, the men who liked to escape the city and their
Pasadena Playhouse tries on Harvey Fierstein's play about 1960s cross-dressers.
"Casa Valentina," Harvey Fierstein's 2014 Tony-nominated play, couldn't have found more trustworthy hands than those of director David Lee. The West Coast premiere took place Sunday at the P…
The veteran character actor from TV's Boston Legal and CSI: Miami'' returns to the stage for the first time in thirty years.
Lounging kimonos, simple housedresses and prettier frocks hang on a rack just off the rehearsal area. On the opposite wall stands a row of wigs, near a makeup station. This could be the dres…
Pasadena Playhouse presents the Tony-nominated play tonight.
A group of men in the early 1960s gather for a weekend of cross-dressing in secret.
Casa Valentina's dramatic weight comes from how skillfully the cast explores the tensions that swirl about the subject of who is gay, who is straight, and what is legal.
The Tony-nominated play begins performances tonight.
This week the London theatre bloggers discuss Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51, Headlong's People, Places and Things at the National, and Harvey Fierstein play Casa Valentina at Southwark Play…
Have you seen the raft of rave reviews for our Featured Show? The European premiere of Harvey Fierstein‘s Casa Valentina, which is now running at London's Southwark Playhou…
Southwark Playhouse, London*****Written by Harvey FiersteinDirected by Luke SheppardGareth Snook and Ashley RobinsonHarvey Fierstein’s second London opening this week after Kinky Boots…
The "femmepersonators" of Harvey Fierstein's 1962-set drama would be flabbergasted by today's level of trans visibility, from Grayson Perry and Caitlyn Jenner to Transparent and Eddie Redmay…
Caitlyn Jenner, Kelly Maloney… gender identity challenges are all over the media at the moment. But what we forget to think is that in a modern society, thankfully, people who divert f…
Luke Sheppard directs Harvey Fierstein's play, the second of his shows to open in London this week