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Women on the Verge.(Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, New York)(Review) (theater review)

American Theatre,  May, 2000  by Wood, Mark Dundas

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This time Charles Busch is wigless, but his roots are showing

Everything today seems so trifling. But what do I know? Who the hell am I?"

Marjorie Taub, the tsoris-riddled protagonist of Charles Busch's new comedy, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, does more than a little kvetching. Having thrived on a steady diet of Arthur Schopenhauer and Hermann Hesse since her college days, she has recently reached an existential crisis of Kafkaesque proportions: Following the death of her analyst, Marjorie has smashed several cartoon figurines in a Manhattan Disney outlet. ...

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