Theater on the Verge stages gay classic Torch Song at Hamilton Studios for the first time in Spokane history

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Marianne McLaughlin returns to the stage as Ma Beckoff after a 9-year hiatus.

Before Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen founded Theater on the Verge last year, the duo imagined bringing Harvey Fierstein’s queer classic Torch Song to Spokane. The Tony-award-winning show, which was turned into a movie in 1988, follows drag queen and torch singer Arnold Beckoff as he searches for family, love and respect in 1970s New York.

“When I was a kid that was the first gay film I probably ever saw and it was

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