BLAME IT ON VALENTINE, TEXAS Comes to The Grand 1894 Opera House Today

Blame it on Valentine, Texas - Jaston Williams' hilarious new comedy will play a limited engagement in Galveston at The Grand 1894 Opera House today, June 15th with two terrific performances at 2 and 8pm.

The Tuna series (Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas, Red, White and Tuna and Tuna Does Vegas) - performed now for over two decades - earnEd Williams a reputation as a gifted story-teller. Named "...one of Texas' best storytellers!" by the Austin American-Statesman, it goes without saying... You won't want to miss his latest solo show Blame it on Valentine, Texas.

Follow Jaston starting at the age of four as he single-handedly destroys a dance concert in one of the smallest towns in Texas and became a local star in the process. Laugh at his hysterical efforts to try to convince his 87 year old mother who was legally blind, clinically deaf and using a walker that it might be wise to let someone else do the driving. Then there was the day he was almost eaten by his brothers pig, the night his father suffered a nervous collapse watching the Beatles on T.V. and finally travel with this native Texan on a mad comic adventure in Asia to adopt a boy who came from what the locals called the Screaming Part Of China.

Blame it on Valentine, Texas plays Saturday, June 15th only. Tickets are $25 to $45. Tickets available now by calling 409.765.1894, 800.821.1894 or online at www.TheGrand.com. The Grand 1894 Opera House is located at 2020 Postoffice Street in historic downtown Galveston.

Jaston Williams (Performer and Playwright) Jaston is known around the world for the four plays in the Greater Tuna series, which he co-authored and performed for thirty years. He has appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway; at The Kennedy Center, Ford's Theatre and The National Theatre - all in Washington D.C.; as well as San Francisco's Curran Theater and Marines Memorial Theater; in Los Angeles at the NoHo Arts Center, Pasadena Playhouse, Westwood Playhouse, L.A. Stage Company and La Mirada Performing Arts Center; Houston's Alley Theatre and Galveston's The Grand 1894 Opera House, as well just about every major theatre in the state of Texas. He is a 2013 recipient of The Texas Medal of The Arts and a previous winner of The Texas Governor's Award For Outstanding Contribution to The Arts By A Native Texan. "Texas Monthly Magazine" named his play Greater Tuna, the Play of the 20th Century. He has received high critical acclaim for his four autobiographical one-man shows: I'm Not Lying, Cowboy Noises, Camping With Gasoline, and Blame It On Valentine, Texas. He is currently at work on a novel set in a small town in West Texas in 1968 and will be hosting a new project called "Is There Life After Lubbock?" where he will interview and tell stories and laugh it up with West Texas musicians at the State Theatre in Austin. His first guests will be Joe Ely and Jo Carol Pierce, in Austin on May 15th and 28th. Upcoming, Jaston will appear in September at Casa Manana Theater in Ft. Worth in the musical Big River and then return to his solo show this fall with performances at the Eisemann Center in Richardson and Austin. For the summer of 2014, Zach Theatre in Austin will premiere his new show based on his experiences in the theatre, which is titled, Maid Marian in a Stolen Car! Jaston is a 2013 recipient of the distinguished 2013 Texas Medal of Arts Award.

Blame it on Valentine, Texas, written by and starring Jaston Williams of "Tuna" fame, will play June 15, 2013, Sat at 2 & 8pm at The Grand 1894 Opera House, 2020 Postoffice Street, Galveston, TX. Tickets: $25-$45; are available now at The Grand's box office, by calling 409.765.1894, 800.821.1894, or online at www.TheGrand.com.