Busch's THIRD STORY Offers Actors Fund Performance 3/8

THIRD STORY will offer a special performance to benefit the Actors Fund on March 8th, 2009. Charles Busch's THIRD STORY co-stars the playwright and Kathleen Turner.

A mother and son screenwriting team hunker down in Omaha after fleeing Commie-obsessed 1940's Hollywood. A romantically-inclined but socially-inept princess makes a deal with an ancient witch. And tommy guns meet test tubes as a way-too-well-dressed first lady of the mob forms a desperate alliance with a cloning scientist whose experiments have had, um, less-than-consistent results. Gangster flicks, fairy tales, and B-movie sci-fi collide in this epic comic fable from the imagination of Charles Busch.

Kathleen Turner, star of Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, and Serial Mom, appears on the New York stage for the first time since her Tony-nominated turn in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Charles Busch, a seminal figure of the downtown theater scene since his early years as a drag superstar in Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Red Scare on Sunset, has recently achieved widespread acclaim as writer of the Tony-nominated hit The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and star of the film Die, Mommie, Die!.

The Actors Fund, a nonprofit human services organization founded in 1882, serves all professionals - and not just actors! - in film, theater, television, music, opera, and dance through programs that address their unique and essential needs. As a national organization with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, The Fund directly serves over 8,000 entertainment and performing arts professionals across the country, and approximately 300,000 more through Web resource programs. In providing care and service to professionals throughout the industry, The Fund's programs are wide in scope, responsive in nature, and produce significant results, affecting the lives of people in our community year after year.

Employment in any division of the entertainment and performing arts industry is unpredictable. The Life of an entertainment professional is very similar to any worker or independent contractor that moves from job to job to make their living. Work is erratic, security is fleeting and health insurance is often just a dream. For all of these reasons and many more, The Actors Fund is an indispensable and deeply significant part of the entire entertainment community.

Tickets, priced $65, are available by calling (212) 221-7300, ext. 133; e-mailing tickets@actorsfund.org or visiting www.actorsfund.org.

MCC Theater at
The Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014

Limited Engagement!
Now thru March 15 only