The Broad Stage Presents Alan Cumming 7/9

The Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center presents Alan Cumming, the award-winning stage and film actor/writer/director in ALAN CUMMING: UNCUT. A comedic yet topical evening of provocative monologues and music, more than a performance, Cummings throws a party on The Broad Stage with his eclectic range of witty, biting compositions, from songs by Sondheim, Bacharach, and Kander & Ebb to a selection from Hedwig and The Angry Inch. It's not only the music but what Cumming has to say that makes the evening so hilarious and haunting.

Alan Cumming is playing to sell-out audiences and rave reviews in New York at Feinstein's at Loews Regency with a one-man cabaret show based on his recently released his debut album, I Bought a Blue Car Today, Stephen Holden of The New York Times says "Taking command of the stage with the ease of a vaudevillian who has been treading the boards for decades, Mr. Cumming entertained with a capital E."

ABOUT ALAN CUMMING
U.S. film audiences were first introduced to ALAN CUMMING in Circle of Friends. Alan went on to appear in varied films, including Bryan Singer's X2: X-Men United, Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids trilogy, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Goldeneye, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Titus, Emma and Sweet Land, for which he earned an Independent Spirit Award for producing. Alongside friend Jennifer Jason Leigh, he wrote, produced, directed and starred in the acclaimed The Anniversary Party, which won a National Board of Review Award and two Independent Spirit nominations. His second feature film as actor/director was the 2008 film Ghost Writer, starring David Boreanaz, Anne Heche and Jane Lynch and he was most recently seen in the coming of age independent film, Dare. He has starred in "Sex and the City," "Frasier," "Third Rock From the Sun," "The L Word," "Reefer Madness" and in Sci-Fi Channel's record-breaking mini-series "Tin Man." He is also the host of PBS' "Masterpiece Mystery." Prominent stage work includes his stunning debut as the Emcee in "Cabaret," which garnered him a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards, "Threepenny Opera," "Design for Living," "Elle," "The Seagull," "Bent," and "The Bacchae." Cumming also recently released his debut album, "I Bought a Blue Car Today," and wrote a one-man cabaret show to accompany it that he has toured extensively behind (both domestically and abroad) to rave reviews. He will be bringing the show to Feinstein's April 27 - May 1 and again June 22 - 26. Next up for him is the film Boogie Woogie, set in the contemporary London art world, released by IFC Films on April 23rd and this fall he'll be seen in both The Tempest, opposite Helen Mirren, and Burlesque starring Cher and Christina Aguilera and is voicing a Smurf for Columbia Pictures'/Sony Pictures Animation's hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, The Smurfs, out in 2011.

He can also currently be seen on the CBS hit THE GOOD WIFE as Eli Gold, a sharp-tongued reputation rehabilitator working with Chris Noth's disgraced politician, and will return this Fall for Season 2 as a full-fledged series regular.

Cumming was most recently appointed an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list honored for services to film, theater, and the arts, and to activism for equal rights for the gay and lesbian community.

About The Broad Stage:
Under the leadership of Director Dale Franzen and Artistic Chair Dustin Hoffman, The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center opened its doors in Santa Monica in October 2008. Inspired by Italian "horseshoe" theaters, yet conceived in an absolutely contemporary vernacular, The Broad Stage is an artist's dream and an audience's delight. Unlike any performance space in the country, it is sublimely intimate with 499-seats and strikingly grand at the same time - allowing eye contact with artists from the boxes to the back row -forging a new kind of artist and audience experience in Los Angeles. Theater, dance, film, operas, musicals, symphony and chamber orchestras will be presented on one of the city's largest proscenium stages. Designed without compromise to embrace the artistic process from inspiration to opening night, and conceived as a global theater and community hub. In addition to The Broad Stage, The Edye Second Space, a smaller black box theater, presents new, developing and innovative work in theater, music and dance as part of the 21st Century Cabaret Series. Under the Radar Series (UTR) features younger, innovative artists and chamber pieces and plays. Programming at The Edye is intentionally spontaneous, reflecting the dynamic nature of the space and allowing the latest, most exciting artists to be booked on short notice. The Under the Radar Series is only $20.

Ticket Information: Tickets $60 and $75 are on sale NOW at The Broad Stage box office, 310-434-3200 or go to www.TheBroadStage.com.

Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi