“Thank you for coming to my Bar Mitzvah!” joked emcee Jordan Roth, president of Jujamcyn Theatres, to the festive crowd at The Plaza Hotel for the November 11 Albert Einstein College of Medicine Women’s Division 50th Anniversary Celebration which honored his mother, Broadway producer Daryl Roth, and philanthropist Benjamin Winter.
It’s been another banner year for the multi-Tony Award-winning writer and performer Harvey Fierstein, the son of a Conservative Jewish family who went on to create such Broadway shows as “Torch Song Trilogy” and “La Cage Aux Folles.”
Daryl Roth felt ‘very much like the outsider’ growing up Jewish in the suburbs. Now she the hottest producer on Broadway — and set to open ‘A Time To Kill.’
Stars arrived in style to New York’s Radio City Musical Hall on Sunday night for the 67th annual Tony Awards.
“Kinky Boots” won six Tony awards on Sunday including the top award of best musical and a prize for its composer, pop queen Cyndi Lauper, as Broadway presented its top honors.
The musical “Kinky Boots,” with music by pop star Cyndi Lauper, led the nominations of Broadway’s highest honors, the Tony awards, on Tuesday with 13, closely followed by the British import “Matilda,” which received 12.
Actor and author Harvey Fierstein talks about Passover, his new Broadway musical ‘Kinky Boots’ and being gay. He explains why theater is now his true religion.