AmericanTheaterWeb Original News & Reviews

Updates for February 11, 2009:

Village Voice

Busched and Ambushed in The Third Story and You're Welcome America by Michael Feingold

New York Magazine

Bush and Busch
Comic man-child Will Ferrell takes his perfect role to Broadway. Plus: The battling queens of The Third Story.

nytheatre.com

Review: The Third Story

HuffingtonPost

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Third Story, Cornbury, The American Plan

Update for February 5, 2009:

DC Theatre Scene

NY Reviews: Billy Elliot, August: Osage County, The Third Story

BroadwayWorld.com

Broadway Blog - The Third Story: Spice It Up For Mama

ny1

Time Out Theater Review: "The Third Story"

 
Updates for February 4, 2009:

New York Daily News

'Third Story' a big letdown
It had the fixings for fireworks: Charles Busch, the drag auteur, and Kathleen Turner, the growly film and Broadway diva, acting together. Unfortunately, those sparks never fly.

Edge New York

Review: The Third Story
It’s Dame Versus Dame when ultra-vamp Kathleen Turner meets ultra-camp Charles Busch.

Bergen Record

Off-Broadway review: "The Third Story"
Instead of a Playbill, they should hand you a scorecard when you arrive at "The Third Story."

Back Stage

The Third Story reviewed by David Sheward
There's a lot going on in Charles Busch's The Third Story, a crazy mishmash of movie moments, fairy-tale fantasy, and pseudo-psychological drama

AmericanTheaterWeb

Review - The Third Story - B-Movie Mayhem

New York Times

For Some Mothers, Letting Go Is So Hard to Do
“The Third Story” is an often entertaining and just as often overwhelming new play by Charles Busch.

Newsday

Mother, son go over the top in "The Third Story"

New York Post

'Story' no page turner
The thought of Kathleen Turner and Charles Busch onstage together incites delicious anticipation of camp heaven. Who wouldn't want to see these two dueling divas - perhaps channeling their...

Hartford Courant

New York Stage Review: "The Third Story"
The actor-playwright Charles Busch has created an ingenious, laugh-packed jumble in "The Third Story," in which he doubles as "the undisputed first lady of crime" and a kindly old witch.

Associated Press

Excess of Plot Sinks a Convoluted 'Third Story'
Get out the pruning shears. There's a lot of plot in ''The Third Story,'' maybe one tale too many in Charles Busch's overstuffed mixture of mother-son soap opera, '40s film noir, science fiction and Russian folk legend

Variety

Review: The Third Story
...In Busch's structurally ambitious but muddled "The Third Story," however, the two stars barely collide or even seem to be in the same play, despite the carefully mirrored themes of its elaborate triple plot. It's always a treat to watch Busch in one of his wisecracking glamourpuss turns, but this overreaching effort is a watery cocktail trying to pass for a more potent dirty martini.

TheaterMania

Review: The Third Story
Charles Busch's often riotous and touching new work is an intricate crazy-quilt of three interconnected stories.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: The Third Story
Charles Busch might want to pay more attention to the writing advice he dispenses in his new theatrical slim-noir The Third Story, which MCC is presenting at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

CurtainUp

Review: The Third Story
With four of the play's six actors playing more than one role, makes the latest written and starring Charles Busch vehicle something of of a four-de-force