THR's awards analyst on the Broadway legend's first best play Tony nomination since "Torch Song Trilogy" 31 years ago, when he took home the prize.read more
Harvey Fierstein's first new play in nearly 30 years explores a real-life secret world that catered to "Mad Men"-type execs with a taste for "The Ladies Who Lunch."
Theater Talk Harvey Fierstein on Casa Valentina
Original tape date: April 11, 2014.
First aired: May 3, 2014.
Theater Talk has writer/performer Harvey Fierstein discussing his intriguin…
The last time I tried to rally support for an underappreciated show, I failed miserably. Despite my appeal for The Bridges of Madison County (click here to read what I wrote) the show failed…
CASA VALENTINA is the "Best New Play of the Season!"
From four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein comes Casa Valentina, his first play in almost thirty years and his first-ev…
Harvey Fierstein has recently joined Thomas Meehan and James Lapine on the A list of writers whom the establishment calls upon to crank out a book for a new musical, replacing Terrence McNal…
Don't miss 4-time Tony-nominated CASA VALENTINA
From four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein comes Casa Valentina, his first play in almost thirty years and his first-ever collabor…
Casa Valentina is nominated for 4 Tony Awards including:
Best Play - Author: Harvey Fierstein
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Reed Birney
Best Performance by …
Casa Valentina A Paradise Found: Being comfortable in one's own skin is something that not everybody feels and in Casa Valentina, the new play by Harvey Fierstein, we revisit what in real li…
CASA VALENTINA is a fascinating and bizarre drama that examines a group of straight men who have a need to dress as women. They are not gay. Not flamboyant drag queens nor female imp…
Four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein's Casa Valentina opened on Broadway April 23. The new play tells the true story of a resort in the Catskill Mountains where heterosexual men had …
At the very least Mr. Fierstein has gotten this secret topic out in the open creating discussion. At best he has created some very juicy roles for men to explore their inner woman.
It is no surprise that Harvey Fierstein is the one who authored "Casa Valentina," a remarkably well-acted if overheated and under-cooked play about a 1960's Catskills resort for heterosexual…
