THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE
written by
Charles Busch
directed by Lynne Meadow
CAST
Linda Lavin, Tony Roberts, Michele Lee, Shirl Bernheim, Anil Kumar
Linda Lavin and Tony Roberts
Set Design
Santo Loquasto
Costume Design
Ann Roth
Lighting Design
Christopher Akerlind
Sound Design
Bruce Ellman and Brian Ronan
Production Stage Manager
William Joseph Barnes
photo by Joan Marcus
Presented by Manhattan Theatre Club
Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director
MTC associate artistic director, Michael Bush.
Barry Grove, Executive Producer; Carole Shorenstein Hays, Daryl Roth,
Stuart Thompson and Douglas S. Cramer.
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
November 2, 2000
Tony Award nominee for Best Play
“Uproarious, “The Allergist’s Wife” earns its wall-to-wall laughs.” “Mr. Busch has swum straight into the mainstream and stays comfortably afloat there.”
Ben Brantley, New York Times
“An intelligently funny and satirically relevant uptown comedy.”
John Simon, New York Magazine
“Charles Busch comes of age as a comic playwright of the first rank.”
New York Daily News
On November 19, 2018 the Actors Fund presented a one night only stage reading of The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife starring Charles Busch in the title role originally played by Linda Lavin, and the entire original all-star Broadway cast including Michele Lee, Tony Roberts, Anil Kumar and Linda Lavin as well as original director Lynne Meadow.
Click the image below to watch video highlights from that evening
