Tony Award winner Reed Birney and Drama Desk Award nominee Lisa Emery are set to star in the postponed New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse. The play, a Second Stage The…

Tony Award winner Reed Birney and Drama Desk Award nominee Lisa Emery will star in the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse. The play, a Second Stage Theater production,…

Succession's David Rasche and Emmy Award winner, Academy Award and two-time Tony Award nominee Mare Winningham (Girl from the North Country) have joined the Broadway cast of Leslye Headland’s Cult of Love. T…

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 New York theatre scene…

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 Manhattan Theatre C…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Manhattan Theatre Club's World premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray) and directed by Kimberly…

40 Years of Broadway: 5 Things I've Learned Slave Play and Be More Chill Learn some history. Sorry, young readers out there, but musical theater did not start with Be More Chill, and there were centuri…

Broadway couple Ali Stroker and David Perlow have welcomed a baby boy. Jesse Kenneth Perlow was born on November 8, according to Tony winner Stroker's social media post. Stoker and Perlow were married on July …

Casa Valentina Playbill - Opening Night Apr 23, 2014 Theater Tickets, The Great White. Visit. Save. From. playbill.com ...

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 Fierstein and directe…

We started off this month's Musical of the Month, Hairspray with a look back at the origins and facts behind the original Broadway production. This week, we take a closer look at that cast and what they've b…

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray) and directed by Kimberly Senior (Disgraced, The Niceti…

Manhattan Theatre Club's World premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray) and directed by Kimberly Senior (Disgraced, The Niceti…

Manhattan Theatre Club's World premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray) and directed by Kimberly Senior (Disgraced, The Niceti…

MTC has officially opened Bella Bella, written and performed by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray) and directed by Kimberly Senior (Disgraced, The Niceties).

When New York politics was a boys club, BELLA ABZUG threw her hat into the ring. Four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Hairspray) returns to MTC taking on New York City's very own poli…

Get a first look at Manhattan Theatre Club's World premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray) and directed by Kimberly Senior (…

MTC will soon present the World Premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Award Winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray). The play will begin previews on October 1 at New Yor…

MTC will soon present the World Premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Award Winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray). The play will begin previews on October 1 at New Yo…

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 Fierstein's Casa Valenti…

With Santino Fontana opening tonight in Tootsie, once again, Broadway has one of its favorite things - an actor in drag. This season's Torch Song is also a potential nominee this season, including Michael Uri…

Initial casting is set for the Broadway premiere of singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's acclaimed musical Hadestown. The previously announced main-stem staging, arriving direct from a celebrated product…

On the heels of a celebrated West End opening, the new musical Hadestown by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell has set a 2019 Broadway premiere at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The previously announced main-stem …

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, “Casa Valentina…

Over the past weeks, I began to celebrate the start of my 36th year of going to Broadway shows, by looking at the theaters where I've seen multiple distinct productions. Miss the first part? Click HERE. Or…

Casting is set for the West End premiere of Hadestown, the celebrated new musical by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell. The previously announced production, developed and directed by Great Comet Tony nomine…

Off-Broadway's Public Theater has announced a talented lineup of stars set to lead the U.S. premiere of Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan's Girl From the North Country. The previously announced pr…

Casting is complete for Bernhardt/Hamlet, a world premiere play written by Pulitzer finalist Theresa Rebeck. The new work is slated to arrive at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre beginning on Septem…

1. ‘Casa Valentina’ at Colonial Players of Annapolis. “It’s a masterful look at what makes people what they are, and Colonial Players of Annapolis created a beautiful and heartfelt production of th…

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 features wonderfu…

“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 night, is its …

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 as Dustin Lance Black…

A starry lineup of actors has been announced to join three-time Tony nominee Condola Rashad in a new Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. The revival, directed by Tony winner Daniel Sull…

TACT, The Actors Company Theatre has announced that Jennifer Ehle Oslo -Tony nomination, The Coast of Utopia - Tony Award, Design for Living, The Real Thing - Tony, Theatre World awards, Kristine Nielsen Presen…

TACT, The Actors Company Theatre has announced that Jennifer Ehle Oslo -Tony nomination, The Coast of Utopia - Tony Award, Design for Living, The Real Thing - Tony, Theatre World awards, Kristine Nielsen Presen…

Claudia Catania, founder and Artistic Director of Playing on Air, has announced the release of Playing on Air's latest podcast Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson's 1986 short play, A Betrothal, featuring Lisa…

Broadway vets Lisa Emery (Casa Valentina), Michael Countryman (Wit) and Michael Siberry (The Sound of Music) are among the additional cast members announced for the forthcoming Broadway revival of Six Degrees o…

Mare Winningham has joined the previously announced cast of Joan of Arc: Into the Fire. The Emmy winner and Tony and Oscar nominee will play Isabelle Romée, the mother of the titular martyr. Penned by Os…

Gabriel Ebert will join fellow Tony winner Harvey Fierstein in the world premiere of Martin Sherman’s Gently Down the Stream at the Public Theater. The off-Broadway production will begin performances on M…

The Humans Tony winners Jayne Houdyshell & Reed Birney answer your questions about Wicked, Girls, Casa Valentina and reminding you of your mother.

Reed Birney, who won his first Tony Award this year for his performance in The Humans, will star in the New York premiere of Tracy Letts' Man From Nebraska. The Second Stage Theatre production, helmed …

With six Tony Award nominations, The Humans' cast and creative team have much to celebrate. The stars, scribe Stephen Karam and director Joe Montello recently assembled at Sardi's Restaurant as Tony nom…

"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

Tony nominee Tom McGowan will assume the role of Sipos in She Loves Me on May 10. He is set to replace Michael McGrath, who is scheduled to depart the company on May 8 for personal reasons. The acclaimed reviva…

Pasadena Playhouse tries on Harvey Fierstein's play about 1960s cross-dressers.

The veteran character actor from TV's Boston Legal and CSI: Miami'' returns to the stage for the first time in thirty years.

Pasadena Playhouse presents the Tony-nominated play tonight.

Holly Hunter, Annie Parisse, Ed Harris and more celebrate the opening of New Group's revival of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child Feb. 17. The Off-Broadway product…

The New Group's revival of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child officially opens Feb. 17 following previews that began Feb. 2. The Off-Broadway production features&am…

The New Group's revival of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work Buried Child begins performances Feb. 2. The Off-Broadway production features "Mad Men&…

Peter Friedman and Mare Winningham will lead the world premiere of Greg Pierce’s Her Requiem off-Broadway. Directed by Kate Whoriskey, the previously announced production will play a limited engagement Fe…

Lincoln Center Theater has announced full casting for the LCT3 world premiere of Greg Pierce's Her Requiem, directed by Kate Whoriskey. Among the cast are Broadway vet Peter Friedman (Twelve Angry …

The New Group has announced full casting for the revival of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, opening in February 2016. The production, helmed by Scott Elliott, is set to feature "Mad Men" star Ri…

The rumors were true! Stephen Karam’s The Humans will move to the Main Stem's Helen Hayes Theatre with the cast from the current off-Broadway Roundabout production—including Reed Birney and Jayn…

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 Playhouse.

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 Playhouse, has wowed critics and …

Southwark Playhouse, London*****Written by Harvey FiersteinDirected by Luke SheppardGareth Snook and Ashley RobinsonHarvey Fierstein’s second London opening this week after Kinky Boots is Casa Valentina, …

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 Redmayne’s new f…

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 from gender normative…

Looks like the Mayor of Broadway (as we like to think of him) is on his way to becoming Mayor of London's "Theatreland!" After opening Kinky Boots and Casa Valentina in the U.K.'s capital city…

Luke Sheppard directs Harvey Fierstein's play, the second of his shows to open in London this week

By Stephen Collins As directed by Luke Sheppard, Casa Valentino is a play about a marriage. Everything turns on the central relationship between George (Edward Wolstenholme) and Rita (Tamsin Carroll). They have…

Good morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news Starry productions of UGLY LIES THE BONE and FULL HOUSE TH…

Director Luke SheppardhelmsHarvey Fierstein's CASA VALENTINA, with previews from tonight 10 September, an opening slated for 16 September and a run through 10 October 2015 at Southwark Playhouse.

The European premiere of Harvey Fierstein's 2014 Broadway play Casa Valentina, which earned four Tony nominations, including a nod for Best Play, begins performances at London's Southwark Playhouse Sept…

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Nominated for 4 Tony Awards: Including Best New Play Back in 1962, most men went to the Catskill Mountains of New York

Reed Birney caught many a theatregoer's eye for his performance in Broadway's Casa Valentina. But the ubiquitous actor has been gracing the Off-Broadway stages, seemingly nonstop, for years.

The previously announced European premiere of Harvey Fierstein's 2014 Broadway play Casa Valentina, which earned four Tony nominations, including a nod for Best Play, has announced its full cast.

Tamsin Carroll is to lead the cast of Casa Valentina at Southwark Playhouse. The play’s European premiere, which is directed by Luke

By Doug Mayo Producer Paul Taylor-Mills and Director Luke Sheppard have announced their cast for the upcoming European premiere of Harvey Fierstein’s play Casa Valentina at Southwark Playhouse. The cast w…

Harvey Fierstein's play opens at Southwark Playhouse next month

Emmy winner Camryn Manheim and stage alums Patrick Page and Russell Harvard will round out the cast of Deaf West’s Spring Awakening revival on Broadway. The three new additions, along with the previously …

BroadwayWorld has confirmed thatthat Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Camryn Manheim 'The Practice,' 'Ghost Whisperer', Drama Desk Award nominee Patrick Page Cymbeline at Shakespeare in the Park, Casa Valenti…

Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Camryn Manheim (“The Practice," "Ghost Whisperer"), Drama Desk Award nominee Patrick Page (Cymbeline, Casa Valentina, Spider-Man) and Theater Worl…

Southwark Playhouse is to stage the European premiere of Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina. Directed by Luke Sheppard, the play runs at the