PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Charles Busch is the author and star of over twenty-five plays including The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, one of the longest-running plays in Off-Broadway history. His mainstream play, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife ran for 777 performances on Broadway, won the Outer Circle Critics' Award for playwriting, received a Tony nomination for Best Play, and was the longest-running Broadway comedy of the past twenty-five years. Busch 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 Sundance. For two seasons, Charles appeared as Nat Ginzburg on the HBO series OZ and he also had a role in the major motion picture Addams Family Values. Charles has appeared as a guest programmer and in numerous documentaries for Turner Classic Movies and he has lectured and conducted master classes at NYU, Harvard, UCLA, and Amherst. In 2016, Charles' show The Lady at the Mic premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, and he has performed his cabaret act in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, London, Paris, Barcelona, and New York.
