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Harvey Fierstein on the Timely Lessons of AIDS, Gay Rights and Bella Abzug (Listen)

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Gordon Cox Theater EditorTony-winning Broadway favorite Harvey Fierstein can’t be onstage right now — so he’s bringing his newest work to your earbuds.

After a premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club last year, his play “Bella Bella,” the solo show in which Fierstein also stars as the groundbreaking activist and politician Bella Abzug, now arrives on Audible with a fresh, timely relevance to a country grappling with the coronavirus shutdown and in the midst of a national reckoning spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: Speaking on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety‘s theater podcast, Fierstein noted that his play includes a story about Abzug going to the South because she was the.

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