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Local Contact:
Mandee Kuenzle
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908-246-0882

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

FOUR TIME ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE
MARSHA MASON,
DAVID GARRISON AND LYNN COHEN
JOIN THE CAST OF
“T H E T A L E O F T H E A L L E R G I S T ’ S W I F E ”
BY CHARLES BUSCH
AT THE BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE
AUGUST 15 – SEPTEMBER 1

FOUR TIME TONY AWARD® WINNER
BOYD GAINES SET TO DIRECT

New Hope, PA (5/24/13) – Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) (Jed Bernstein, Producing Director) has announced casting for The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch, the final production of the 2013 Playhouse Productions Summer Season. Golden Globe winner and four-time Academy Award nominee for Best Actress, Marsha Mason, will star as Marjorie Taub. David Garrison (“Married With Children”) and Lynn Cohen (“Sex and the City”) have also joined the cast. Previously announced, four-time Tony Award® winner Boyd Gaines will direct. Performances begin August 15th and run through September 1st at the Bucks County Playhouse (70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA).

This Tony®-nominated play by Charles Busch follows Marjorie Taub, a middle-aged Upper West Side doctor’s wife who is plunged into a mid-life crisis on an epic scale when a former childhood friend reappears. A show filled with passion and humor that The New York Times called “uproarious, a window rattling comedy of mid life malaise.”

“We are thrilled that Marsha Mason, one of stage and screens most celebrated actresses, will be gracing the Bucks County Stage this summer. She along with the other extraordinary members of the cast continue to reinforce how special this Playhouse is to artists,” said Producing Director Jed Bernstein.

Additional information, including the complete cast and creative team, will be announced shortly.

Tickets are $29-57.50. For a complete schedule and to purchase tickets for The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife visit bcptheater.org, call 215-862-2121 or visit the box office at 70 South Main Street New Hope, PA (Tues-Sun noon-5).

The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Located 90 minutes from New York City, the Bucks County Playhouse opened in 1939 on the site of a grist mill dating from the late eighteenth century. Ironically, the structure was at that time in danger of demolition; however playwright Moss Hart and the local community rallied to save the building and re-opened it as a theatrical venue, which quickly became one of the country’s most famous regional theaters, with a veritable who’s who of American theatrical royalty including Kim Hunter, Helen Hayes, Kitty Carlisle, Colleen Dewhurst, Shirley Booth, Lillian Gish, June Lockhart, Grace Kelly, Robert Redford, Bert Lahr, Leslie Nielsen and Walter Matthau and remained in continuous operation until December 2010.
Thanks to the Bridge Street Foundation, the non-profit family foundation of Kevin and Sherri Daugherty with Tanya Cooper as President, this beloved theatrical landmark was re-opened and celebrated on July 2, 2012, exactly 73 years and a day from when it originally opened in 1939. The Bucks County Playhouse is located at 70 South Main Street in New Hope, PA.

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