Injury to Kathleen Turner Forces Cancellation of Three Third Story Perfs

Due to an injury sustained by leading lady Kathleen Turner, three performances of MCC Theater’s recently extended The Third Story have been cancelled. The canceled dates include February 18, 19 and 20. The star will return to the production, with “cane in hand and a knee brace,” in time for the February 21 matinee, according to MCC. Turner's injury occurred "at a performance this week," the theater's statement issued on Feburary 19 said, but the exact nature of the injury was not revealed.

“Kathleen Turner personifies the attitude of the Broadway trouper. Against any odds, she must, and will, make her performance,” MCC Co-Artistic Director Bernie Telsey commented in a statement.

In addition to Busch and Turner, The Third Story features Scott Parkinson, Sarah Rafferty, Jennifer Van Dyck and Jonathan Walker.

In The Third Story, 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.