Harvey Fierstein
Date of birth: 1952-06-06
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots". He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
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White Lies
1997-04-01
A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant dir
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004-12-27
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth, 150 leading artists of the stage, scree
Bros
2022-09-30
Two gay men are possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy.
Jump
1999-04-17
Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off th
The Demon Murder Case
1983-03-06
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
Three Little Pigs
1997-01-01
A vegan wolf moves in with the Three Pigs in a parody of MTV's Real World.
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004-02-24
Today there are more reasons than ever for families to explore and celebrate diversity. Our ever-exp
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006-12-11
Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man he
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994-09-23
Finished a quarter century after the earth-shaking protests that forever altered the public percepti
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990-08-31
Novice writers from a writers workshop wrote the show's sketches.
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993-01-22
On January 22, 1993 at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams, Ha
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004-05-05
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical document
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006-05-02
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa
Death to Smoochy
2002-03-29
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003-01-01
Lifetime's "Intimate Portrait" series shines a spotlight on the Golden Girls -- Bea Arthur, Betty Wh
Foodfight!
2012-06-15
The evil Brand X joins a supermarket that becomes a city after closing time.
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019-08-23
The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creati
Mulan II
2004-11-03
Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain Li Shang asks for her hand in ma
Safe Men
1998-08-07
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Is
Everything Relative
1996-09-13
Old college chums get together for a weekend reunion that is bound to open old wounds and perhaps he
Bullets Over Broadway
1994-10-14
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's
Torch Song Trilogy
1988-12-14
Arnold Beckoff is looking for love and acceptance, but as a gay man working as a female impersonator
MaMa's Pushcart
1988-01-01
With virtually no financial resources, Ellen Stewart created the La Mama theater in New York in 1961
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007-04-19
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Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007-04-01
WORDS AND MUSIC is the story of one of Broadway's iconic figures: the composer/lyricist of Hello, Do
Farce of the Penguins
2006-12-01
In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soun
Common Ground
2000-01-29
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Animal Crackers
2018-07-21
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by
Mulan
1998-06-18
When Imperial China calls one man from every family to defend the empire from invading Huns, a young
Kull the Conqueror
1997-08-29
A barbarian named Kull becomes ruler after defeating the old king in battle. In an effort to regain
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015-11-25
Go behind the curtain in The Land of Oz with NBC's "The Making of The Wiz Live!" The hour-long speci
Hairspray Live!
2016-12-07
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993-11-24
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984-10-07
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996-12-24
Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is grante
The Celluloid Closet
1996-03-15
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men a
Duplex
2003-09-26
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs
Independence Day
1996-06-25
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major
Tidy Endings
1988-08-14
A man, whose companion dies of AIDS, confronts his lover's ex-wife and the two end up building a fri
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995-08-25
A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use
The Harvest
1993-11-05
A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to wrap up a movie presently in
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005-08-07
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein ar
Playing Mona Lisa
2000-05-01
A young pianist is looking for love in all the wrong places once her fiancee drops her. Maybe her fl
Apology
1986-07-27
For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and
Garbo Talks
1984-10-12
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His
Double Platinum
1999-05-16
The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only
The Sissy Duckling
1999-09-14
Elmer, a sensitive duckling whose schoolmates tease him. However, after his unusual talents help him
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996-06-29
We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jef
Disarm Hate
2020-03-15
Nine LGBTQs come together after the Pulse Massacre to join one man, a hairdresser and activist from
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014-01-23
Citing homosexual propaganda law, Russian government outlaws theatrical performance. The Russian Bro
Rescued from the Closet
2001-05-29
Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002-09-17
A short documentary about the making of Danny Devito’s film Death to Smoochy.
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020-07-13
You are invited to join recording artist and Broadway star Shoshana Bean and her cast of friends for
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991-09-18
Two high school journalists write a story about a teen HIV support group, and are stunned by some of
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
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"A 2015 pilot I made for a BBC webseries, rejected after I got into an argument with the commissione