THE TEMPERAMENTALS Militant Mondays Talkbacks Continue 8/17 With Charles Busch, Daryl Roth & Jon Marans

This coming Monday August 17th the hit show "The Temperamentals" by Jon Marans continues the populart Militant Mondays, a series of talk backs following the performance. Charles Busch, Daryl Roth & Jon Marans will lead the lively discussion. It will be moderated by Jonathan Silverstein. "The Temperamentals" is Off Broadway at the TBG Theater, 312 West 36 Street 3rd Floor, NYC. MANunderdog and Daryl Roth are presenting the new American play. Thomas Jay Ryan plays Harry Hay and Michael Urie (TV's "Ugly Betty") is Rudi Gernreich, with Tom Beckett, Matthew Schneck, and Sam Breslin Wright completing the cast. The acclaimed play is directed by Jonathan Silverstein.

2hrs & 15 mins Including intermission

Charles Busch is the multi-talented actor and writer who has appeared in film and many off-Broadway productions. He first came to prominence as both author and performer in Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party, The Lady in Question, and Red Scare on Sunset. There are film versions of his Psycho Beach Party and Die, Mommie, Die!, for which he won a Sundance Special Performance Award. He co-wrote, starred and directed the film "A Very Serious Person" and is also the subject of the documentary "The Lady in Question is Charles Busch". Busch's work debuted on Broadway, with The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. He is the author of the novel Whores of Lost Atlantis.

Daryl Roth has produced six Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: August: Osage County, Proof, Wit, How I Learned to Drive, Anna in the Tropics, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Other award winning productions include: ; Irena's Vow; Caroline, or Change; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002 Tony Award); The Tale of the Allergist's Wife by Charles Busch; the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Oscar Wilde's Salome; Medea; Bea Arthur on Broadway; Harlem Song; Old Wicked Songs by Jon Marans; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; The Play About the Baby ; Snakebit; Closer Than Ever, and De La Guarda to name a few. Film credits include the Emmy-nominated HBO feature Dinner with Friends. Ms. Roth serves on the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center Theatre, the Sundance Institute, the LAByrinth Theater Company, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dedicated to nurturing and supporting theatre artists, The Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award is given annually to an artist who has demonstrated exceptional talent and promise in his or her field.

"The Temperamentals" tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the United States pre Stonewall. The play weaves together the personal and political to tell a relatively unknown chapter in gay history. It explores the love between two complex men, as their impossible dream of forming such an unheard of organization becomes a reality in this perilous, unpredictable world. It is an intimate portrayal of the men who created history and the epic struggles they overcame. The characters consist of the actual men who founded the Mattachine Society (Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull, and Dale Jennings), as well as other prominent figures of the time. www.thetemperamentals.com

The remaining shows that week are Tuesday, Friday - Sunday 8pm & matinees Saturday & Sunday 3pm. The show must close on the 23rd due to a previous booking at the theatre. Tickets are $50 through Smarttix: online at www.smarttix.com or by phone at (212) 868-4444.

Photo credit Peter James Zielinski

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