David Sedaris Coming to Ohio Theatre, 4/12
The celebrated NPR humorist comes to Columbus for an evening of cutting wit, social satire, and riveting conversation, featuring all-new, unpublished readings and recollections, and a question and answer session. Experience the hilarious brilliance that created national bestsellers-Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk-as well as the recent paperback release of Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls. Sedaris will also hold a post-show book signing.
CAPA presents An Evening with David Sedars at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.) on Sunday, April 12, at 7pm. Tickets are $40-$60 at the CAPA Ticket Center (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 469-0939 or (800) 745-3000.
Tweaking the familiar until it warps, Sedaris mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Including his recent releases, the New York Times' bestselling books When You Are Engulfed in Flames and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, Sedaris' wickedly witty observations of the ordinary/bizarre are always sure to deliver insights and laughs.
One of six children in a second-generation Greek family, he grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1977, he dropped out of Kent State University to hitchhike around the country. Aside from working as an elf, Sedaris has worked a number of charmingly quirky jobs such as a house painter, an apple picker, an aide in a mental hospital, a creative writing teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, and an apartment cleaner.
Sedaris made his comic debut recounting his strange-but-true experiences of being a Macy's elf, reading his Santaland Diaries on NPR's "Morning Edition" in 1992. His sardonic humor and incisive social critique have made him one of NPR's most popular and humorous commentators. In 2001, he was named Humorist of the Year by Time magazine and received the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
