Photo Flash: 'The Third Story' in Previews at La Jolla Playhouse

The Third Story is an uplifting and very funny play that is composed of three interconnected stories: a realistic tale of a mother and son screenwriting team in the 1940's, a B-movie about the uneasy alliance between a mob queen and a frosty lady scientist and a Russian fairy tale in which a painfully shy Princess makes a dark pact with a mercurial old witch.

The cast features: Charles Busch (Baba Yaga/Queenie Bartlett) who recently starred in his own screenplay of Die, Mommie, Die! and is the author of such critically acclaimed plays as The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Mary Beth Peil (Peg/Dr. Rutenspitz) a Tony-nominated actress most recently seen on Broadway in Sunday in the Park with George, whose credits include Film: Stepford Wives and TV: Grams in Dawson's Creek; Jonathan Walker (Drew/Steve) whose credits include Film: Michael Clayton and Broadway: Twentieth Century and After the Fall; Jennifer Van Dyck (Constance Hudson) whose recent credits include Film: Across the Universe, TV: New Amsterdam, Broadway: Hedda Gabler; Scott Parkinson (Zygote) who performed on Broadway in The Coast of Utopia; and Rebecca Levy (Vasalisa/Verna/Miss Tinsley) a third-year MFA student at UC San Diego who has also performed in Lulu at Harvard University and Peter Pan at Berkshire Theatre Festival.

Previews Begin: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
Press Opening: Sunday, September 21, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
Closes: Sunday, October 19, 2008 @ 7:00 pm
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Tuesdays @ 7:30 pm / Wednesdays @ 7:30 pm / Thursdays @ 8:00 pm / Fridays @ 8:00 pm
Saturdays @ 2:00 pm (no Saturday matinee during first preview week) & 8:00 pm
Sundays @ 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

For tickets call 858-550-1010 or visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org.  The box office is located at 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA.