Charles Busch, Matthew Lombardo to Speak at The A.R.T. / Moscow Art Theatre School Institute, 11/4

Broadway playwrights and pals Charles Busch (The Tale of The Allergist's Wife) and Matthew Lombardo (Looped, High) are scheduled to speak at The A.R.T. / Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University (Director, Scott Zigler) on Friday, November 4, 2011 at 1PM. This class is presented in association with the Learning From Performers program of the Office for the Arts at Harvard (Director, Thomas Lee).

The writers are currently in town promoting their respective nun plays: Busch's The Divine Sister is currently running (through November 19 at the Calderwood) at SpeakEasy Stage while Lombardo's National Tour of High starring Kathleen Turner kicks off at the Cutler Majestic Theatre December 6 -11, 2011. Both playwrights are certainly no strangers to Boston theatergoers. Busch's tour of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife starring Valerie Harper made a stop at The Wilbur Theatre and Lombardo's Katharine Hepburn solo-play Tea at Five starring Kate Mulgrew played The American Repertory Theatre and then returned for a two-week encore presentation at The Shubert Theatre. (Busch will also be playing Lombardo's Great Kate in a One-Night Only Benefit Performance of Tea At Five at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on November 28, 2011)

The playwrights have made a "habit" of swapping actresses for a number of years. First Kate Mulgrew played in Lombardo's Tea at Five before taking on Busch's Our Leading Lady. Then Valerie Harper played the title role in The Tale of The Allergist's Wife before Lombardo scooped her up to play his Tallulah Bankhead in Looped. And they both have now worked with actress Kathleen Turner who played in Busch's The Third Story and Lombardo's High.

 

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