Art House Slates Stars For P-Town Holiday Shows

Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale announced today that The Art House in Provincetown, MA will present four very special shows this holiday season - and is expanding this year to include Thanksgiving, Holly Folly and New Year's Eve weekend performances. Set for this holiday season are Simply Barbra on Thanksgiving Weekend November 25th and 26th, a triumphant return by SCTV star and summer sell-out Andrea Martin for Holly Folly weekend December 3rd and 4th, a noteworthy P-Town debut by Saturday Night Live star Ana Gasteyer on New Year's weekend December 31st and January 1st, and a brand new show from Sirius/XM radio star Seth Rudetsky on January 1st. For tickets please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 508-487-9222.

Steven Brinberg has written and performed live as Simply Barbra! around the world to wide acclaim for over a decade. This past year, in addition to two successful runs in Provincetown, he performed with Marvin Hamlisch and the Symphony Orchestras of Dallas, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and Norfolk, and previously at The Kennedy Center. The show has also thrilled audiences across the globe in Australia, New Zealand, England, Singapore and Hong Kong. Simply Barbra! has twice won Brinberg both of cabaret's highest honors: The Bistro Award and The Mac Award. TV appearances include The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Sally Jessy Raphael, Jerry Springer, and Fox News Channel, and on film in Boy's Life, Camp, and Next Year in Jerusalem.

Andrea Martin is a two-time Emmy Award winner for the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series SCTV, and has received more Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations as Featured Actress in a Musical than any other actress, winning both awards for her role in My Favorite Year. Her Broadway credits also include Tony nominations for Young Frankenstein, Oklahoma! and Candide. She is widely known for her role in the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding and was last seen on Broadway opposite Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon in Exit the King. Her film work also includes the newly released Breaking Upwards, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, All Over the Guy, and Wag the Dog. TV appearances include My Big Fat Greek Life, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Nurse Jackie, and Ed. Her one-woman show Final Days! Everything Must Go! features Seth Rudetsky at the piano.

Ana Gasteyer was a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live for six seasons, best known for SNL characters such as middle school music teacher Bobbie Moughan-Culp opposite Will Ferrell, NPR radio host Margaret Jo, Lillith Fair poetess Cinder Calhoun, and popular recurring impressions of Martha Stewart, Celine Dion and Hillary Clinton. She more recently returned to SNL as Margaret Jo in the now infamous "Muffin Top" sketch with Betty White, which Gasteyer also wrote. On stage, she made her acclaimed Broadway debut as Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show, and since then has also garnered raves as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway and originating the role in the Chicago production, which earned her a Jefferson Award nomination. Other New York roles include the Tony-nominated Broadway shows The Royal Family, The Threepenny Opera with Alan Cumming and Jim Dale, Eve Ensler's Off-Broadway smash The Vagina Monologues, and Manhattan Theatre Club's hit Kimberly Akimbo. Her film work includes Dare, Mean Girls, The Women, What Women Want, Woman On Top, Dick, What's The Worse That Could Happen, and other television credits include The Good Wife, Chuck, Reefer Madness, Frasier, Just Shoot Me, 3rd Rock From The Sun, NYPD Blue, Mad About You, Law & Order, Party of Five, Seinfeld (in the famous "Soup Nazi" episode) and this season's Curb Your Enthusiasm opposite Larry David. Her P-Town show will also feature Seth Rudetsky at piano.

Seth Rudetsky's That 70's Deconstructing Show! is an evening of outrageous comedy featuring rare clips of some of the best - and very worst - performances culled from a collection of ‘70s variety and award shows, musically dissected as only Seth Rudetsky can. Seth is the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius XM satellite radio, and as a musician he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Misérables, and Phantom of the Opera. He was the Artistic Producer and Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts, which included Dreamgirls with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and Hair with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy nomination). As a comic he was awarded "Funniest Gay Male in NY" at Stand-Up NY and is a three-time Emmy nominee as a writer for The Rosie O'Donnell Show. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in The Ritz directed by Joe Mantello, and has appeared on television on Law and Order C.I. and All My Children. He is a published author of two books and writes a weekly column on Playbill.com. This season's holiday programming at The Art House is certain to be, by Seth's own signature estimation, simply "A-MAH-zing!"

Thanksgiving Weekend
Simply Barbra
starring Steven Brinberg
Fri Nov. 25th & Sat Nov. 26th at 7:30PM

Holly Folly Weekend
BROADWAY AT THE ART HOUSE presents
Andrea Martin in an encore performance of
Final Sale Everything Must Go!
with Seth Rudetsky at the piano
Sat, Dec. 3rd at 9:00 PM
Sun, Dec. 4th at 3:00 PM

New Year's Weekend
BROADWAY AT THE ART HOUSE presents
Ana Gasteyer
with Seth Rudetsky at the piano
Sat, Dec. 31st at 7:30 and 9:30PM
Sun, Jan. 1st at 2:00PM

Also New Year's Weekend
Seth Rudetsky's
That 70's Deconstructing Show!
Sun, Jan 1st at 8:00 PM

The Art House
214 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA
For tickets visit www.ptownarthouse.com
For box office hours and information call 508-487-9222

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