Theater for the New City presents a live-streamed reading of Visitors in the Dark, written by and starring Charles Busch, on Monday, July 20 at 7PM on Theater for the New City’s website and Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram channels. The cast also includes Julie Halston, Becky London, and Ruth Williamson. The show is directed and narrated by Carl Andress and hosted by Crystal Field.
Visitors in the Dark takes place on the night of the 1965 blackout. Four women band together in a Greenwich Village tenement. There, old grudges evolve into a new found hope as the women explore the possibility that the blackout could signify a visit from Outer Space.
Busch is the author and star of such plays as The Divine Sister, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, The Tribute Artist and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, which ran for nearly two years on Broadway and received a Tony nomination for Best Play. He wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays, Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die, the latter of which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003, he received a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright. He is also the subject of the documentary film The Lady in Question is Charles Busch. Busch is also a two-time MAC award winner as well as a Bistro Award winner. He has performed his cabaret act nationally and internationally. His first CD, Charles Busch Live at Feinstein’s 54 Below, has been released by Broadway Records.
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