Charles Busch News

Charles Busch and Julie Halston in "The Divine Sister." Charles Busch 's new play, "The Divine Sister," in which he will star in drag as an indomitable-but-overburdened nun, will have a developmental production at Theater for the New City from Feb.

In the mid-1970s, an aspiring young actor from New York, Charles Busch, came to Evanston to study at Northwestern, where he couldn't get cast in other people's plays.

Rex Rutkoski can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4664. It's the early 1960s and all teenager Chicklet Forrest wants to do is fit in with the Malibu beach surf crowd.

Like its 1954 predecessor "The Belles of St. Trinian's" where doughy English actor Alistair Sims played headmistress Millicent Fritton, this remake is a throwback to Shakespeare's era, when women were banned from the stage and all roles were played by men.

Die! Mommie Die! It's been forever since we've had really good, outrageous, dirty-minded, over-the-top camp in Denver, so Die! Mommie Die! is a particular delight.

Die! Mommie Die! It's been forever since we've had really good, outrageous, dirty-minded, over-the-top camp in Denver, so Die! Mommie Die! is a particular delight.

Charles Busch returns to Washington tonight for the Ganymede Fall Arts Festival kick-off. Ganymede, Galactica gear up for festival Special Agent Galactica almost had a makeover last year.

Marjorie , left, finds her life turning around, but something still confuses her ever-complaining mother, Frieda in "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife." No one is going to confuse playwrights Charles Busch and Neil Simon.

"Life sure is wacky," says bespectacled beach bunny Berdine at the end of "Psycho Beach Party." Berdine is right - life is wacky, especially among the '60s-era surfers dreamed up by playwright Charles Busch and brought to camptastic life for the Cameo Theatre by director Rick Sanchez.

Following in the footsteps of the late Charles Ludlum, founder of New York's Ridiculous Theatre Company, which honed camp and cross-dressing into a comic art in the 1960s and 70s, self-described "gender illusionist".... Following in the footsteps of the late Charles Ludlum, founder of New York's Ridiculous Theatre Company, which honed camp and ...

Broadway's Julie Halston is a teacher on the edge in the Bay Street Theatre production of Miss Margarida's Way , which opens Aug.

Parody is hard to do, and it's harder to do well. With all the winking and nodding, it's easy for writers, actors and directors to let a show slip into self-indulgence. But what all truly great parodies do require is a foundation of love.

Charles Busch stars as the imposing Lady Bracknell in the Los Angeles Theatre Works engagement of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest , beginning June 17.

Five of New York's most highly regarded playwrights have agreed to jury the 40 short plays featured in the 34th Annual Samuel French Inc.

Counter-Productions Theatre's take on Charles Busch's "Psycho Beach Party" is silly fun in grand summer style.