Berkshire Theatre Group to Welcome Paula Poundstone, 9/26

Berkshire Theatre Group presents An Evening with Paula Poundstone on Saturday, September 26 at 8pm at The Colonial Theatre.

Tickets to An Evening with Paula Poundstone are $55, $45 and $25. Contact the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street, Pittsfield by calling 413-997-4444, or online at www.berkshiretheatregroup.org. Ticket Offices are open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 10am-2pm or on any performance day from 10am until curtain.

In the early '80s, Paula Poundstone packed up her belongings, hopped on a Greyhound bus, and traveled across the country performing at open mic comedy clubs. Poundstone went on to become one of the great humorists of our time. You can hear her through your laughter as a regular panelist on NPR's popular weekly news quiz show, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. She tours regularly, performing stand-up comedy across the country.

In the early '90s Poundstone was the first woman to win the cable ACE for Best Stand-up Comedy Special and the first woman to be invited to perform stand-up at the prestigious White House Correspondents dinner, where she joined the current President as part of the evening's entertainment. Poundstone starred in a self-titled series for HBO in '93 (for which she won her second Cable ACE Award for Best Program Interviewer), and moved the show to ABC which was short-lived, but applauded for its break from convention. Poundstone had her own comedy specials on HBO and Bravo. In fact, she starred in several comedy specials on HBO, including Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard, the only time the elite university has allowed their name to be used in the title of a television show. Poundstone is recognized as one of Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-ups of all time. Poundstone won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-up Comic, and in 2010 she was one of a select group voted into the Comedy Hall of Fame.