HARVEY FIERSTEIN
In Conversation with David Drake
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Time: 3:45 – 5 PM
Milford Theater – ticketed event
Tony Award–winning performer and author Harvey Fierstein, whose new memoir I Was Better Last Night (Knopf 2023) quickly became a New York Times bestseller. He will be joined on stage by director, actor and author David Drake, in a lively conversation about his memoir, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award–winning actor and playwright, I Was Better Last Night reveals never-before-told stories of his personal struggles and conflict, of sex and romance, and of his fabled career. Harvey Fierstein’s legendary career has transported him from community theater in Brooklyn, to the lights of Broadway, to the absurd excesses of Hollywood and back. He’s received accolades and awards for acting in and/or writing an incredible string of hit plays, films, and TV shows: Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, Cheers, La Cage Aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy, Newsies, and Kinky Boots. Mr. Fierstein says that even those closest to him have never heard most of the tales revealed in these wildly entertaining pages.
David Drake is a playwright, stage director, actor and author best known as the author and original performer of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, one of the longest running one-actor plays in Off Broadway history. (First produced in 1992 at New York’s Perry Street Theatre by Sean Strub, who today serves as Milford’s mayor)
Harvey Fierstein
HARVEY FIERSTEIN is the Tony Award-winning author of Torch Song Trilogy and La Cage aux Folles. His other theater writings include Kinky Boots, Newsies, Casa Valentina (all Tony-nominated), A Catered Affair (twelve Drama Desk nominations), and Bella Bella. His theater performances include, Torch Song Trilogy and Hairspray (Tony Awards for both), Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage aux Folles, Gently Down the Stream, and A Catered Affair. His film and television appearances include Mrs. Doubtfire, The Good Wife, and Cheers (Emmy nominated), and he has voiced characters in the film Mulan, and the shows Big Mouth, The Dark Crystal, BoJack Horseman, and many more. He lives in a small fictional town in Connecticut with whatever animals will have him.
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David Drake
David Drake is a playwright, stage director, actor and author best known as the author and original performer of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, one of the longest running one-actor plays in Off Broadway history. He received a Village Voice Obie Award, a 1994 Drama-Logue Award for “Outstanding Solo Performance,” and a Robbie Stevens Frontiers Magazine Award for the same. There have been over 30 productions, in a dozen countries, of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. The published version was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Other nominations include a 1994 LA Weekly Theater Award and a Lambda Literary Award nomination for “Best New Play of 1994”. He is the artistic director of the Provincetown Theatre in Provincetown, MA, where he recently produced Harvey Fierstein’s latest play, Casa Valentina!
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