The comedy legend performs live & uncensored in an intimate Times Square cabaret setting.
Now thru March 31 at Laurie Beechman Theatre
Buy tickets HERE.
Legendary comedian JOAN RIVERS presents an evening of her newest and most outrageous riffs on Celebrity Apprentice, Hollywood, pop culture, celebrities, reality TV and award show fashion. A full dinner menu and bar are available, and pianist Lance Cruce plays from the time doors open until Joan takes the stage. Tickets are $30 with a $15 per person food/beverage minimum per person. Net proceeds benefit Rivers' favorite charities: God's Love We Deliver and Guide Dogs for the Blind. Tickets are available by calling 212-352-3101 or purchase online here. Doors open one hour before showtime. The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located inside the West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd Street (just west of Ninth Avenue); accessible from the 1/2/3/7/N/Q/R/A/C/E trains at Times Square).
Joan's upcoming showtimes are:
Tuesday, March 9 at 8:00pm
Wednesday, March 10 at 8:00pm
Tuesday, March 16 at 8:00pm
Tuesday, March 23 at 8:00pm
Wednesday, March 24 at 8:00pm
Wednesday, March 31 at 8:00pm
Described as a post-menopausal Lenny Bruce, JOAN RIVERS delivers a raunchy, politically incorrect evening of stand-up comedy. One of the hardest working women in show business, she is a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, Emmy Award-winning television talk-show host, jewelry designer, business woman and mother to "what's-her-name" Melissa. She is on the board of God's Love We Deliver, National Chairwoman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and gives lectures around the world on suicide prevention and survival. With her trademark mix of outspoken wit, savvy and compassion, she continues to be one of America's most admired first ladies of comedy.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, JOAN RIVERS "made the rounds" in New York during the '50s, appearing in a few off-off Broadway plays (including one where she played a lesbian opposite an equally unknown Barbra Streisand), surviving sleazy agents, tawdry clubs, and hostile audiences. A 1965 booking on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" led to her hosting one of the first syndicated talk shows on daytime TV, "That Show with Joan Rivers" in 1968. In the '70s Joan wrote the TV-movie The Girl Most Likely To (starring Stockard Channing) and then wrote and directed her first feature film Rabbit Test, casting Billy Crystal in the lead. In 1983 Joan became the permanent guest host on "The Tonight Show." Later, she headlined in Las Vegas, sold out Carnegie Hall, produced a Grammy nominated comedy album, and wrote two best-selling books. In 1989 the Tribune Corporation launched Joan in her own syndicated daytime talk show. She won an Emmy and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1994 she wrote and starred on Broadway in Sally Marr and Her Escorts, for which she received a Best Actress Tony nomination. Since then, Joan has written five more best-selling books, maintains her own jewelry line on QVC, provided fashion commentaries for E! and The TV Guide Channel, and filmed a special for Bravo. She has two books currently on sale, Men Are Stupid . . . And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery and Murder at the Academy Awards. She just finished a winning stint on Celebrity Apprentice 2, The Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers, Joan Rivers: A Work In Progress by a Life In Progress at The Edinburgh Comedy Festival, and hosting reality TV series How'd You Get So Rich? on TV Land.