Plays by Author - Charles Busch

Shanghai Moon

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

9 Male 0 Female

A spoof of 1930's oriental movie melodramas, this wild concoction by the author of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife recounts the outrageous story of a notori...

$10.99

Times Square Angel

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 4 Female

Irish O'Flanagan is quite a dame. A product of Depression era Hell's kitchen, she has spunk, talent and fabulous clothes She lifts herself out of the slums and into a career as a nightclub singer, finally b...

$10.99

Sleeping Beauty or Coma

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 2 Female

This offbeat curtain raiser to Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is a fairytale treatment of "mod" London "A compendium of every movie made in the 60's.... Captures their spirit, mood and style with delicious humor...

$10.99

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom & Sleeping Beauty or Coma

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

This truly bizarre entertainment of the Rocky Horror genre is about vamps, has nothing to do with lesbians and takes the audience from ancient Sodom to the Hollywood of the twenties and ends up in present da...

$10.99

Outrageous! Monologues and the Odd Scene

Charles Busch

Dramatic Publishing

1 Male 1 Female

This is the first anthology of monologues and scenes from award-winning playwright Charles BuschHe's been called "a comic playwright of the first order," and this collection puts the spotlight on the hilario...

$19.99

Judith of Bethulia

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 4 Female

Imagine Mae West at her most outrageous in a Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic ... Now imagine Judith of Bethulia - a beautiful, wealthy young widow, reviled by her own people as nothing more than a good for...

$10.99

Olive and the Bitter Herbs

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Olive Fisher is an elderly character actress whose claim to fame were the iconic "Gimme the Sausage" commercials of the 1980s She's a classic New York curmudgeon, at war with the world and in particular her...

$10.99

The Third Story

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

A faded screenwriter in the 1940s woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play The gangster/sci fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a be...

$10.99

Die Mommie Die!

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

This comic melodrama evokes the 1960s movie thrillers that featured such aging cinematic icons as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner and Susan Hayward ... Faded pop singer, Angela Andrews, is trapped ...

$10.99

The Divine Sister

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 5 Female

The Divine Sister is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns! Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Singing Nun and Agnes of God, The Div...

$10.99

The Lady in Question

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

This hilarious spoof of trashy damsel in distress vs. Nazis movies packed them in Off Broadway, where the irrepressible author starred as Gertrude Garnet, renowned pianist and world class hedonist On tour i...

$10.99

Red Scare on Sunset

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

Mary Dale is a musical comedy star who discovers to her horror that her husband, her best friend, her director and houseboy are all mixed up in a communist plot to take over the movie industry. Among their g...

$10.99

Queen Amarantha

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Gorgeous costumes and an ornate setting embellish this robust tale of a lonely Garboesque queen who dresses as a man, a duplicitous courtier who loves the boy in the woman, a conniving countess bent on steal...

$10.99

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a radical departure for the well known author of extravagant spoofs like Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party. Marjorie Taub, the wife of a philanthropic aller...

$10.99

You Should Be So Lucky

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

A timid young electrologist's act of altruism leads to a ten million dollar inheritance, but only after he accidently shocks his benefactor, the elderly Mr. Rosenberg, causing a fatal heart attack Rosenberg...

$10.99

Psycho Beach Party

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 6 Female

Imagine Gidget crossed with The Three Faces of Eve and Mommie Dearest. Chicklet, a perky teenager in Malibu Beach circa 1962, wants to learn to surf and join a group of beach bums led by the great Kanaka Un...

$10.99

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and Other Plays

Charles Busch

Grove Press

Charles Busch is renowned for weaving popular culture, wicked camp humor, and biting social satire into an unusual and uproarious theatrical signature that has earned him the Outer Critics' John Gassner Aw...

$16.99