Christine Ebersole Plays Provincetown's Art House This Weekend

Christine Ebersole won her second Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, as well as virtually every Off-Broadway award, for her "dual role of a lifetime" as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. The critically acclaimed musical was nominated for a total of ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the CD recording was nominated for a Grammy Award. Tonight and tomorrow, August 17 and 18 she will return to Provincetown and the Broadway @ The Art House series for the first time since her sold-out debut at the theater two years ago. Series host and Sirius/Radio star Seth Rudetsky joins her again at the piano. For tickets, visit www.ptownarthouse.com, or call 1-800-838-3006.

Her extensive Broadway career also includes her Tony Award-winning performance as Dorothy Black in the hit revival of 42nd Street, in addition to leading roles in On the Twentieth Century, Oklahoma, Gore Vidal's The Best Man, the recent revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Dinner at Eight for which she received both Tony and Drama Desk Award Nominations. Concert appearances include the recent concert version of the opera The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony's tribute to Leonard Bernstein, the Boston Pops' concert version of A Little Night Music, and on the PBS concerts Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty.

In addition to her acclaimed stage career, Christine Ebersole has also appeared in numerous hit films such as Amadeus, Tootsie, Richie Rich, Black Sheep, Dead Again, Folks!, Ghost Dad, True Crime, My Girl 2, Mac and Me, and Confessions of a Shopaholic. Her television credits include appearances on Retired at 35, Royal Pains, Ugly Betty, Law and Order SVU, Boston Legal, Samantha Who, Will and Grace, The Nanny, Just Shoot Me, Murphy Brown, Ally McBeal, Valerie, Ryan's Hope, and One Life to Live and The Colbert Report.