Charles Busch
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Renowned for his wicked camp humor and biting social satire, playwright and drag legend Charles Busch has delighted audiences both on and off Broadway. This book contains four of his works, among them Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, one of the longest-running plays in Off-Broadway history.
Also included is the Tony-nominated Broadway hit The Tale of the Allergist's Wife-a comedy about a self-absorbed Upper West Side woman whose life is devoted to mornings...
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A crumbling convent school is on the verge of insolvency, when a young postulant begins to display strange heavenly powers. And when a dashing film executive arrives to buy the rights to her story, the Reverend Mother refuses to put profits over prayer. Playwright Charles Busch made his name with genre-skewering hits like Psycho Beach Party, Die Mommie Die, and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which L.A. Theatre Works recorded in 2007. This time...
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Marjorie Taub, a middle-age, middle-class New Yorker, is only trying to make a better life for herself. While her mother sits at home complaining and her husband is too busy helping others, Marjorie spends her days attempting to improve her mind and soul. However, a visit from a childhood friend could leave lasting repercussions on Marjorie's dedication to self-improvement.
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Angela Arden wants to be free of her suffocating marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. What better way than poison! Distraught by her father's death and convinced of her mother's guilt, Edith Sussman plots to get the truth out of Angela using any means necessary. Charles Busch stars in the role he originated in this camp sendup where tongues aren't the only thing dipped in acid.
Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in...
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This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence." Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language. Includes an
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