Busch's Third Story Offer Actors Fund Performance March 8

By Andrew Gans
March 8, 2009

Charles Busch's The Third Story, which co-stars Kathleen Turner and playwright Busch, offers a special performance to benefit the Actors Fund of America March 8.

The 7 PM performance of the new play at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) will benefit the non-profit organization.

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

In MCC Theater's Third Story, press notes state, "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."

The Actors Fund, which was founded in 1882, is a non-profit organization that provides for the social welfare of all entertainment professionals. Some of the many programs The Actors Fund provides include a nursing home and assisted living care facility; senior and disabled programs; mental health services; chemical dependency services; entertainment industry assistance programs; the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative; the AIDS Initiative; and supportive housing on both coasts.

For more information visit www.actorsfund.org.