Turner Injury Forces MCC to Cancel 'THIRD STORY' 2/19 - 2/20 Performances

Due to an injury sustained by Kathleen Turner at a performance this week, MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) have announced that 3 performances of its current hit production of Charles Busch's The Third Story have been cancelled, including last night, tonight and tomorrow. However, in true the-show-must-go-on fashion, Ms. Turner will return to the show, (with cane in hand and brace on knee) in time for this Saturday's 2/21 matinee performance, at which point the show will resume its normal playing schedule.

MCC Co-artistic Director Bernie Telsey, commented, "Kathleen Turner personifies the attitude of the Broadway trouper. Against any odds, she must, and will, make her performance."

The producers have recently announced that, in order to accommodate ticket demand, they have extended the New York Premiere of Charles Busch's The Third Story. Directed by Carl Andress. the six-character play will now continue through Sunday, March 15 (two additional weeks) at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC).

The production, which opened on February 2, features Mr. Busch, Scott Parkinson, Sarah Rafferty, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Walker and Kathleen Turner (and marks Ms. Turner's return to Off Broadway in more than 30 years).

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.

Tickets are $65 and are available through www.ticketcentral.com. Performances are Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., Thursday and Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 3:00 p.m. A special benefit performance has been added on Sunday, March 8 at 7:00 p.m. for The Actors Fund.

MCC Theater is one of New York City's leading theater companies, committed to presenting New York and world premieres each season. When MCC Theater was founded in 1986, its mission was simple: to bring new theatrical voices to theater-going audiences. MCC Theater continues to accomplish this yearly through presentation of its mainstage works; its Literary Program, which actively seeks and develops new and emerging writers and its Education & Outreach Program, allowing more than 1,200 students yearly to experience theater, increase literacy and discover their own voices in the arts. Notable MCC Theater highlights include: their 2008 production of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, the 2004 Tony-winning production of Bryony Lavery's Frozen; Neil LaBute's Fat Pig; Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living; Marsha Norman's Trudy Blue; Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit; Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone and Alan Bowne's Beirut. Over the years, the dedication to the work of new and emerging artists has earned MCC Theater a variety of awards.

MCC Theater's production of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty begins performances at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on Friday, March 13.

For more information, visit www.mcctheater.org.

 

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