Featured in "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" are (Front from left) Joanna Churgin, Cynthia Rothschild, Gail Bernardi, (Back from left) Alan Levine, Jonathan Ahmadi.

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September 11 - October 17, 2009
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 2 PM

$18 general admission
$2 discount for seniors, students & servicemen

With more than twenty-five plays, three screenplays and numerous books to his credit, Mr. Busch's hilarious comedy; "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" was a hit on Broadway and played for more than 700 performances. It was nominated for several Tony awards including Best Play (Mr. Busch), Best Actress (Linda Lavin) and Best Featured Actress (Michele Lee). Ben Brantley of The New York Times called the play "an uproarious comedy with wall-to-wall laughs."

The play explores the Upper West Side milieu of aspiring intellectual and middle-aged upper class matron Marjorie Taub, who lives comfortably with her doctor husband Ira in an expensively furnished apartment near Zabar’s. Marjorie spends her mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at MOMA and evenings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Marjorie's ongoing effort to improve her mind and soul has brought her to the conclusion she never will be more than mediocre. To make matters worse, her therapist has just died and coupled with her dissatisfaction with her life, her elderly mother's constant complaints and her husband's altruistic dedication to the homeless, she has an emotional outburst in a Disney Store resulting in considerable breakage.

Plunged into a mid-life crisis of Medea-like proportions, Marjorie is shaken out of her lethargy by the reappearance of Lee, a fascinating and somewhat mysterious childhood friend. Unexpectedly Lee becomes entrenched in the Taub household as a seemingly permanent guest, and what happens next surprises all of them.