Reviews
"Brightly enacted by the entire cast, Mr. Busch and company explore and explode all sorts of vintage cinema clichés, an activity at which Mr. Busch is without peer...Kathleen Turner is ever commanding...Jonathan Walker is perfectly pitched...Scott Parkinson in gloriously repellent...
Sarah Rafferty is a screwball charmer...Jennifer Van Dyck turns an expertly written speech into a satirical pièce de résistance."
-Ben Brantley, New York Times

"The main joy of The Third Story is that its foolery embodies something substantive...No wonder The Third Story feels like such an energizing event."
-Village Voice

"Ingenious! Laugh-packed!  The Third Story proves a treat and throbs with heart as well!" -Hartford Courant

"Charles Busch has met his match and found a muse in his voluble, whiskey-voiced star, Kathleen Turner."
-Bloomberg News

"Plays-within-plays require such intricate tailoring.  So it's a pleasure to report that with The Third Story, the ever-captivating Charles Busch proves equally deft as both performer and seamstress."
-Theatermania

"Charles Busch says more with a curled lip than many plays say in a whole evening of talk."
- Newsday

Features
"On a recent January night, Kathleen Turner and Charles Busch were sitting in a private room at Cowgirl, a bar and restaurant in the West Village, where a clamorous cast party was in full swing...(more)" -New York Times

"Any play by Charles Busch, the queen of camp theatrics, is worth seeing, especially if he is playing one of the leading female roles. Here, the other leading lady is the husky-voiced Kathleen Turner, who rocked Edward Albee's world in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on Broadway..." Paper

"One of the most singular performers of our era, Kathleen Turner has held her own against some remarcable men, including William Hurt, Michael Douglas, Nicolas Cage, and, of course, Bill Irwin (in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). Now, she gets to share the stage with author and co-star Charles Busch..." Theatermania

"First lady of the American Stage Charles Busch joins forces with uberbroad Kathleen Turner in a zany new play..." Time Out New York

"Charles Busch holds sole possession of the title of the New York theater world's best kept secret." Vogue

“Kathleen Turner is a first-rate, depth-probing stage actress.”
New York Times

A Note from the Playwright
"Writing and storytelling have always been a major part of my life, even though my second-grade teacher, Mrs. Laspina, refused to tack any of my stories on the wall with the other kids’ work. My spelling was awful, my grammar hopeless and my penmanship illegible." (more)