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AN EVENING WITH VICKIE SHAW
Comedy Show & After Party!
Saturday, August 10, 2019
8pm
The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and Andrea Meyerson Productions (AMP) will present a special, one-night-only appearance by the celebrated comedian Vickie Shaw at the Center’s Renberg Theatre on Saturday, August 10, at 8pm.
Hilariously addressing the triumphs and trials of being a woman, a mother, and gay in America, Shaw’s charming Southern style belies her sharp-edged wit and hilarity. She says things no one else can because she says them so nicely!
From her stories about her wife, Sgt. Patch, to tales about her kids and grandchildren, to growing up Southern Baptist and living in Texas, audiences love her humor not just because she’s funny but because it’s all true.
Shaw’s television credits include Comedy Central, WE-TV, Logo Network (You Can Take the Girl Outta Texas, Vickie Shaw Live: Sick & Wrong Tour, Wisecracks), and Comics Unleashed with Bryon Allen. She also starred in the award-winning film Laughing Matters … More! She performs regularly across the United States, on cruises, at resorts, comedy clubs, colleges, and at corporate, political, and church fundraisers.
The evening will include a VIP reception before the show and an after party for everyone with DJ Tish Corleone and dancing under the stars, a complimentary food buffet, and cash bar. General admission tickets are $40 and include the show and after-party. VIP tickets ($60) include the general admission items, the pre-performance reception, and preferred seating for the performance.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or by phone at (323) 860-7300. Net proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the full range of the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s free and low-cost programs and services.
AN EVENING WITH VICKIE SHAW
Saturday, August 10, at 8pm.
The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre
1125 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood, 90038.
(one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Boulevard)
| About the Los Angeles LGBT Center: Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019, the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond since 1969. Today the Center’s nearly 700 employees provide services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world, offering programs, services, and global advocacy that span four broad categories: Health, Social Services and Housing, Culture and Education, Leadership, and Advocacy. We are an unstoppable force in the fight against bigotry and the struggle to build a better world – a world in which LGBT people can be healthy, equal, and complete members of society. Learn more at lalgbtcenter.org. |
| About Andrea Meyerson Productions (AMP): Andrea Meyerson is an award-winning creator of film and television programming as well as a successful producer of concerts and live comedy shows. As founder and president of AMP (formerly StandOut Productions) she has produced and directed nearly 30 feature films, television specials and series episodes which have aired on Showtime and Viacom’s Logo Network. In 2002, she produced and directed the award-winning comedy documentary Laughing Matters. The success of the critically acclaimed film spawned three sequels. She began creating original television programming in 2007 and produced and directed numerous standup comedy specials featuring popular comics such as Niecy Nash, Alec Mapa, Kate Clinton, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Jessica Kirson, and many others. She also created the One Night Stand Up series for the Logo Network, delivering 10 episodes, each showcasing a group of diverse comics. In 2012 she completed the full-length documentary I Stand Corrected, which she produced and directed. The film premiered at the American Documentary Film Festival in April 2012 where it won the Audience Award for Best Film. Still playing at film festivals worldwide, I Stand Corrected has won a total of nine audience and/or jury awards. Since founding StandOut Productions in 1997, she has staged live events featuring Wanda Sykes, Roseanne Barr, k.d. lang, Indigo Girls, Joan Armatrading, and Brandi Carlile. The recipient of numerous awards for her activism in the areas of LGBT and women’s rights, Meyerson was recognized with the Los Angeles LGBT Center ‘s L.A.C.E. (Lesbians Active in Community Empowerment) Award in 2002. PowerUp honored her as one of the ‘10 Amazing Women in Showbiz’ in 2004. In 2006, she received the WIN Outstanding Women Award from the Women’s Image Network. She made history in 2007 when she became the first out lesbian to receive the YWCA’s Women of Achievement Award in the Arts & Entertainment Category. In March of 2008, she was honored with the prestigious Human Rights Campaign’s Local Hero Award. She is also the founder of Women On A Roll, one of the country’s largest social organizations for lesbians. |
