Emily Bergl, Julie Halston, Ashley Auston Morris and Zuzanna Szadkowski are set to join off-Broadway's Love, Loss and What I Wore. Bergl, Halston and Morris will join previously announced stars Emme and Susan Sullivan beginning June 1. They will remain with the show through July 3. On July 6 Szadkowski will take over, joining previously announced stars Alison Fraser ...

Julie Halston, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Dan Butler and Richard Masur will star in Primary Stages' forthcoming world premiere production of Charles Busch's Olive and the Bitter Herbs. The comedy will debut at 59E59 Theaters beginning July 26, with opening night set for August 16, directed by Mark Brokaw. The limited engagement is set to run through September 3. Additional ...

Nominations for the 2011 Drama Desk Awards were announced on April 29, and The Book of Mormon led the pack with a total of 12 nods. The awards, which honor Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions, will be presented on May 23 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in a ceremony to be hosted by Harvey Fierstein. Audra McDonald and Liev Schreiber announced ...

The Divine Sister will ends it almost eight-month run at the Soho Playhouse on May 1. The Charles Busch comedy will have played nine previews and 253 regular performances at the time of closing.

A loving spoof of classic religious films, The Divine Sister opened on September 22, 2010 to positive reviews. Directed by Carl Andress, the production stars Busch ...

Marcy McGuigan will join the cast of off-Broadway's The Divine Sister as Sister Walburga. McGuigan will take over the role on April 9, replacing original star Alison Fraser who will play her final performance on April 8 at the Soho Playhouse.

McGuigan's New York theater credits include Shanghai Moon, Meet Me in St. Louis, It's Not My ...

Charles Busch and his fellow nutty nuns welcomed another famous face to the Soho Playhouse when Tony Award winner Alan Cumming paid a visit to The Divine Sister on January 8. After the curtain call at off-Broadway's holy outrageous comedy, Cumming, now playing wily political operative Eli Gold on the hit TV series The Good Wife, hopped onstage with ...

Drag icon Charles Busch has assembled a gang of veterans from his previous stage comedies to inhabit the crazy convent of his latest show, The Divine Sister. Broadway.com headed down to the Soho Playhouse where Busch and co-stars including Julie Halston and Alison Fraser are getting into the habit of making audiences laugh eight times a week. Shedding their ...

Two-time Tony nominee Alison Fraser is sharing the stage with her old friend Charles Busch in his latest madcap off-Broadway comedy, The Divine Sister. In the nun-centric show Fraser takes on the role of Sister Walburga, a shifty German nun sent to monitor a Pittsburgh convent who brings her own conspiracy-based agenda. “There’s more of a show backstage than ...

Playwright/actor Charles Busch may be back in women's clothing for his latest comedy, The Divine Sister, but audiences are already realizing that the show is hardly a drag. (In fact, The New York Times called it Busch’s best work in decades!) After the September 22 opening night performance of their nun-centric show, Busch and his co-stars, including ...

Audiences can now kneel at the altar of drag diva Charles Busch, author and star of the new nun-centric off-Broadway comedy The Divine Sister. Broadway.com's resident artist Justin "Squigs" Robertson headed down to St. Veronica's (a.k.a. the SoHo Playhouse) to jot down some superior scribblings of Busch and his habit-clad co-stars Alison Fraser and Julie ...