March 18-25, 2020
Talkback - Sunday, March 22

Jewish Family Theatre
Performance at Weinstein JCC
5403 Monument Avenue
Richmond, VA 23226
Tickets: WeinsteinJCC.org | (804) 285-6500

Torch Song
By Harvey Fierstein

Jewish Family Theatre 

Winner! 1983 Tony® Award for Best Play for Torch Song Trilogy

In Torch Song – the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein’s award-winning Torch Song Trilogy – the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s. Told with a likable, human voice, Torch Song follows Arnold’s odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect.

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 January 6, 2020
Talkback Following

Richmond Catholic Theatre
Performance at Grace Street Theatre
934 W Grace Street 
Richmond, VA 23220
Tickets: richmondcatholictheatre.com
(804) 552-1859​

Twelfth Night or What You Will
By William Shakespeare

Richmond Catholic Theatre

In the Catholic faith, we are encouraged to turn to Christ in order to find refuge from trauma and the revelation of our true identity. Only in Him can either of these be complete, and to turn away from Him in times of trauma and the desire to know one’s self, is to deny the truth and rest in an unsatisfactory existence. In the Gospel of John, Christ states, “I have come that they may have life, and have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). But his desire to provide an abundance of life, a flourishing life, can come only when we seek it through Him. It cannot be found elsewhere. Life lived under false pretenses cannot flourish, yet because of our suffering, turning away from the foundational knowledge of Christ’s love can be tempting. The world around us seems to offer comfort, and the temptation to be wholly self-sufficient is overwhelming in times of crisis, leading many to place their trust in their own abilities rather than the providence of God. However, true freedom subsists in uniting one’s suffering to the cross, in accepting our foundational identities as daughters and sons of Christ, and allowing our growth and direction to take root in Him before we deign to grow upward and outward. Without those roots, we become disconnected from our true identities and unable to have life and live it to the fullest. Viewing Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night through this Catholic perspective creates a new lens by which we can examine both the traumatic events as well as the discussion of identity.