Charles Busch
"Shanghai Moon" has been nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards: Outstanding Actor for Charles Busch, and Outstanding Costume Design for Michael Bottari and Ronald Case. [read more]
"The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" opens Tuesday, April 1 and continues through Sunday, April 6 at the Shubert Performing Arts Center, 247 College St., New Haven.
THE ACTORS' FUND is beside itself with joy over the March 30 L.A. stage production of "All About Eve," starring the real-life Stockard Channing as the fictional star Margo Channing, with Calista Flockhart as the ambitious Eve. I ran into some Actors' Fund folks downtown at the Charles Busch reading of the old Mae West play "The Pleasure Man", and they hope to make a video of "Eve."
The New York Times: The Hourglass Group, which staged a version of Mae West's "Sex" in 1999, is going West again, this time with a one-night-only staged reading of her 1928 drag play "The Pleasure Man." Directed by Elyse Singer, it will be performed on March 17 at the Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street. Charles Busch stars.
Playbill.com: What a Drag! Mae West's Pleasure Man Gets NYC Reading With Charles Busch March 17 [read the article on playbill.com] [read the article on my site]
"Shanghai Moon" closes.
In the New York Daily News, Rush and Molloy Column: Rosie O'Donnell may not have a show or a magazine but she's still a desirable first-nighter. The cosmetics-free comic led the cackling on Sunday at "Shanghai Moon," Charles Busch's latest camp-out at the Greenwich House Theater. Busch, who plays the seductive wife of the British consul to China, also attracted Kenneth Lonergan, Donna Hanover and Bryan Bantry.
Tony-winning actor B D Wong of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" says his emotional journey in becoming a father through surrogacy -- and then dealing with the medical problems in 2000 when his twin sons were born prematurely -- gave him a fresh appreciation for his colleagues. "The uniqueness of being a person in our business really came through for me. I was doing [HBO's] "Oz" when all this was happening...and so many actors and showbiz folk were remarkably supportive and positive," says Wong. With fatherhood on his mind, Wong quit travelling to L.A. for work, knowing "there would be a certain sacrifice. As an actor, if you don't go out there during pilot season, you're kind of cutting off a limb -- restricted to the opportunities that come up in your neighborhood." But he found himself with two TV gigs -- "L&O: SVU" and "Oz" simultaneously, before the latter completed production -- in addition to continuing theatre work.
