Photos: Main Street Theater Presents the Outrageous Comedy BUYER & CELLAR

Main Street Theater presents the hilarious play Buyer & Cellar by Jonathan Tolins. This show is "an irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of fictitious premises... This seriously funny slice of absurdist whimsy creates the illusion of a stage filled with multiple people, all of them with their own droll point of view," said the New York Times. Doug Atkins, who has done the show once before Ft. Worth, will bring it to life for Houston.

Buyer & Cellar has 2 preview performances: Thursday and Friday, July 12 and 13 at 7:30pm. The production opens Saturday night, July 14 with The Babs Buyer & Cellar Bash, a fundraiser for the theater, and runs through August 12 at MST - Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd.

Performances are Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are $36 - $45, depending on date, section, and availability. Tickets for The Babs Buyer & Cellar Bash are $50 and $75. All tickets are on sale via phone at 713.524.6706 or online at MainStreetTheater.com.

Alex More has a story to tell. As a struggling actor in L.A., he takes a dayjob working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar (a-hem, Barbra Streisand!!). One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement, but will their connection ever make it upstairs in the real world? Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the love-hate relationship between gay men and divas, and the oddest of odd jobs. Recommended for adults only. "A fantasy so delightful you wish it were true." - The New Yorker "Fantastically funny." - NY Post

Brandon Weinbrenner, who directed last season's Native Gardens, returns to direct the Buyer & Cellar. Doug Atkins plays Alex More.

The production design team and crew include Marcos Everstijn (Set Design), J. Mitchell Cronin (Lighting Design), Rebecca Greene Udden (Costume Design), Janel J. Badrina (Sound Design), and Rodney Walsworth (Properties Design). Julie Marie Paré is the production stage manager.

Main Street Theater provides theater experiences for all ages. Founded in 1975, our MainStage produces professional, intimate, literary plays for adults and operates under an Actors' Equity Association union contract; our Theater for Youth produces professional, engaging productions based on children's literature for families and school groups, both in-house and on tour around Texas; and we offer Education and Outreach programs on-site and at satellite locations around the Greater Houston area for youth aged 4 - high school. We work out of 2 facilities: our Rice Village home on Times. Blvd., and as part of the MATCH (Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston) on Main Street.

Main Street Theater is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit theaters, of Theatre for Young Audiences/USA (formerly ASSITEJ), the world theatre network of theatre for children and young people, and a founding member of Houston Arts Partners. Main Street Theater is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. United Airlines is the official airline of Main Street Theater.

Photos Credit: Pin Lim / Forest Photography