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comedy, delivery and enthusiasm, her distinctive comedic style and passion shines through in all that she does. We are thrilled to bring this new tour to our audiences for what is sure to be an evening of edgy comedy.” Leslie Jones is an enterLeslie Jones, offers a night of brand-new stand-up comedy at the Kimmel Center’s Merriam Theater on July 13, 2019 at 7 p.m. in “An Evening with Leslie Jones.”
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mmy® nominated actress, comedian, writer, and celebrated television personality, Leslie Jones, offers a night of brand-new stand-up comedy at the Kimmel Center’s Merriam Theater on July 13, 2019 at 7 p.m. in An Evening with Leslie Jones. This performance, presented in conjunction with Live Nation, will be part of a tour filmed for Jones’ upcoming Netflix special. “Leslie Jones has been a fan favorite on the ever popular Saturday Night Live, breathing new life into the long running show,” said Ed Cambron, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. “Praised for her sidesplitting
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tainment powerhouse. She recently completed her third season on longstanding sketch show Saturday Night Live, where she has served as both writer and featured player. Her work on the show has garnered her an Emmy® Award nomination and inclusion on the Time 100 List. As a popular television personality, she has covered the most recent summer and winter Olympics on behalf of NBC and was the host of the 2017 BET Awards. Jones also starred in Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters, alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon. Her other film credits include Chris Rock’s Top Five, Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, and the animated film Sing. This summer, she will be featured in a lead voice role in The Angry Birds Movie 2 for Sony Pictures. Jones’ opening guest for the evening is comedian Lenny Marcus. Other featured upcoming performances at Kimmel Center Cultural Campus include: Bring It! Live (July 11, 2019, Merriam Theater), Smart
Gina Gannon, 6abc Action News traffic reporter, will be the featured speaker for the Wednesday lunchtime Tasty Talks series at Yangming on June 26, 2019. ina Gannon, 6abc Action News traffic reporter, will be the featured speaker for the Wednesday lunchtime Tasty Talks series at Yangming on June 26. Tasty Talks founder and host, realtor Michelle Leonard, was thrilled that she had secured this rising media star as the June speaker. Born and raised in Philadelphia in Philadelphia, and a graduate of Temple University’s communication program, Gina can be seen reporting traffic on 6abc Action News and as the face of the WEN by Chaz Dean hair care brand on QVC. With both beauty and brains, Gina also hosts 6abc’s everpopular lifestyle show, “FYI Philly,” where she presents the
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See The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium Production at The Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3 • June 11 - 30, 2019 escribed by the New York Times as “ecstatically angry… relentlessly fierce, relentlessly funny...Betty’s Summer Vacation returns Christopher Durang to the ranks of America’s most incisive living playwrights and a vivid testament to the fact that satire, shaped with enough idiosyncratic charm, can sear like no other form…” Christopher Durang’s 1999 comedy leaves a trail of tears from the merely perverse to the apocalyptic in a route that
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See The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium Production of “Betty’s Summer Vacation” through June 30 at The Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3. Photo/Johanna Austin @AustinArt.org
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(audience be trigger warned) includes scenes involving the whereabouts of a severed penis, homage to Mr. Durang’s artistic ancestor, Joe Orton. Twenty years since its creation, the play’s themes conjure current events, including the Michael Jackson scandal via the documentary Leaving Neverland; daily discussion of the Rule of Law (or lack thereof); Lorena Bobbitt’s Amazon docuseries Lorena, and the ongoing discussion about the effects of the group psychology. See “Betty’s Summer Vacation” page 4