Editing Torch Song Trilogy (section)

{{short description|Collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein}}
{{about|the play|the film adaptation|Torch Song Trilogy (film)}}
{{Use American English|date=June 2020}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox play
| name       = Torch Song Trilogy
| image      = TorchSongPoster1.JPG
| caption    = Broadway promotional poster
| writer     = [[Harvey Fierstein]]
| characters = {{ubl|Arnold Beckoff|Ed|Lady Blues|Mrs. Beckoff|Alan|David|Laurel}}
| setting    = 1970s, 1980s New York City
| premiere   = {{Start date|1982|01|15}}
| place      = [[Actors' Playhouse]], [[Greenwich Village]], [[New York City]]
| orig_lang  = English
| subject    =
| genre      = Drama
| web        =
}}
'''''Torch Song Trilogy''''' is a collection of three [[Play (theatre)|plays]] by [[Harvey Fierstein]] rendered in three acts: ''International Stud'', ''Fugue in a Nursery'', and ''Widows and Children First!'' The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a [[Jews|Jewish]] homosexual, [[drag queen]], and [[torch song|torch]] singer who lives in [[New York City]] in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The four-hour play begins with a [[soliloquy]] in which he explains his cynical disillusionment with love.