[2] It premiered at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles (with Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce in its two roles)[1] before moving to Broadway.

[2] Her tutor is Michael Minetti, an acerbic gay man who has been forced by circumstances to leave his life as a chorus boy on Broadway and to take work as a dance instructor.

[3][7] Seidelman also directed productions in the West End of London (with Claire Bloom and Billy Zane) in 2006[4] and the Los Angeles revival (with Constance Towers and Jason Graae) in 2008.

The play has also been translated into 14 languages[2] and been performed in cities including Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bonn, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Essen, Hamburg, Helsinki, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Madrid, Magdeburg, Munich, Prague, Salzburg, São Paulo, Seoul, Strasland, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and Vienna.

[15] Alfieri developed Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks into a screenplay for the 2014 film adaptation, which was directed by Seidelman and starred Gena Rowlands and Cheyenne Jackson.