Cast Complete for Busch's The Third Story, Starring Kathleen Turner

Casting is complete for MCC Theater's upcoming New York premiere of Charles Busch's The Third Story, starring the previously announced Kathleen Turner and Busch as dueling divas, directed by Carl Andress. The play will begin performances on January 14, 2009, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and will open on February 2, for a limited engagement through February 28.

Joining Turner and Busch will be Jennifer Van Dyck Hedda Gabler, Dancing at Lughnasa, Orson's Shadow, Scott Parkinson The Coast of Utopia, Rose Rage, Sarah Rafferty Gemini, You Never Can Tell and Jonathan Walker Twentieth Century, After the Fall.

In The Third Story, a mother and son screenwriting team hunker down in Omaha after fleeing Commie-obsessed 1940s 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 less-than-consistent results. Gangster flicks, fairy tales and B-movie sci-fi collide in Busch's latest comic fable.