Susan Charlotte's The People Versus Lenny Bruce will receive a public staged reading in New York City next month. Antony Marsellis will direct the play dramatizing the famed court case of the famed comic and his lawyer, Martin Garbus. The reading will be held December 15 at Adler Hall at The New York Society for Ethical Culture.
The theatrical adaptation explores how lawyer Garbus tried to save his client, Bruce, from the system—and from himself. Conservatives and liberals clash in the play, including Jules Feiffer and Dorothy Kilgallen, who approved of every obscene word that Lenny Bruce used.
The cast will include Stephen Dexter as Lenny Bruce, Timothy Doyle as Jules Feiffer, Michael Citriniti as Herbert Ruhe, Greg Mullavey as Richard H. Kuh, Roberta Wallach as Dorothy Kilgallen, and Jack Wetherall as Marty Garbus/Narrator.
Following the reading, two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus will moderate a panel with special guests Martin Garbus, Susan Herman, Tom Fontana, and Mike Osgood.
The People Versus Lenny Bruce is part of a series called All the Courts a Stage, based on the legal cases of Martin Garbus.
