Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre to Present BUYER & CELLAR

Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre is proud to present Buyer & Cellar directed by David Arisco and starring Carbonell Award-winning actor Chris Crawford. The production will play July 13 - August 7, 2016.

Winner of the 2013 Drama Desk Award, this fantastically funny one-man tour-de-force was the most talked about new comedy of last year's Off-Broadway Season. Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous new comedy about the oddest of odd jobs: an underemployed Los Angeles actor named Alex More goes to work in Barbra Streisand's Malibu basement. What follows is a riotously funny new play that gets every comedic element right, ultimately questioning the price of fame. Chris Crawford will amaze audiences playing a half-dozen roles including Alex More, his boyfriend Barry, James Brolin, Streisand's House Manager and ultimately Barbra herself.

Chris Crawford is thrilled to be returning to Actor's Playhouse where he was last seen as Eric Sheridan in Unnecessary Farce and as Tom in Murder Ballad (Carbonell Award Winner). Other South Florida credits include Les Miserables (Grantaire/Ensemble/Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Assassins (Balladeer/Zoetic Stage), The Lion in Winter (Richard/Palm Beach Dramaworks) and The Little Dog Laughed (Mitchell/Island City Stage). Chris has also been seen regionally in Edward II (Edward III/Shakespeare Theatre Company), One Man, Two Guvnors (Francis/TheatreSquared) and My Name is Asher Lev (Asher/American Stage Theatre Company). Chris is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma where he founded Playhouse Tulsa and was Producing Artistic Director for five years. He is the 2007 National Winner of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Irene Ryan Scholarship for Acting, as well as the Mark Twain Award for Outstanding Comedic Performance.

The creative team for Buyer & Cellar includes Scenic Design by Gene Seyffer, Lighting Design by Eric Nelson, Sound and Projection Design by Shaun Mitchell, Costume Design by Ellis Tillman and Properties Design by Jodi Dellaventura.

Preview performances will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, July 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. The show will open on Friday, July 15 at 8 p.m. and play through August 7, 2016. Evening performances will be held Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with afternoon matinees on Sunday at 3 p.m. A special weekday matinee is scheduled on Wednesday, July 20 at 2 p.m.

Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $45, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $53. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.

Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through our group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org.

This event is made possible with the support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners for Major Cultural Institutions, and is sponsored in part by the State of Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts & Culture, with support of the City of Coral Gables, and the following sponsors: Bacardi U.S.A., NBC 6 South Florida and WPBT2.