BUYER & CELLAR Opens Next Week at New Century Theatre

Hennepin Theatre Trust presents BUYER & CELLAR, the outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things and the oddest of odd jobs at the New Century Theatre (615 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) March 31-April 24, 2016. The New York Post praised the show as "fantastically funny" when it premiered off-Broadway in April 2013. The Minneapolis production stars local actor Sasha Andreev as "Alex Moore" and is directed by critically acclaimed Wendy Knox.

Tickets are on sale now at the New Century Theatre Box Office, charge-by-phone at (612) 455-9501 and online at HennepinTheatreTrust.org.

There will be "pay what you can" performance on Monday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Desperate for work, struggling Los Angeles actor Alex More takes on a most unlikely and unenviable gig-running the basement mall in legendary star Barbra Streisand's Malibu home. In BUYER & CELLAR, hilarity ensues with this comedic tale of the implausible friendship between Alex and Hollywood's legendary "Funny Girl." Playwright Jonathan Tolins playfully scrutinizes the zany implications of Streisand's basement shopping mall in an uproarious and unprecedented one-man show.

Taking inspiration from Streisand's coffee table book "My Passion for Design," BUYER & CELLAR is half fact, half fiction. The fact is Streisand does indeed have a shopping mall in the basement of her Malibu home, complete with an immaculate curation of shops including an antique clothing store, a doll storeroom and a sweets shop. The fiction comes from when Buyer & Cellar balances absurdist whimsy and stark realizations as it details Alex's work and the toll it takes on his patience, love life and his view of people.

Tolins wrote BUYER & CELLAR which was named Best Unique Theatrical Experience by the Off-Broadway Alliance when it premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2013. Other plays by Tolins include The Twilight of the Golds, If Memory Serves, The Last Sunday in June and Secrets of the Trade. Tolins' film work includes The Twilight of the Golds and Martian Child. For television, he has written for Queer as Folk, The Academy Awards, The Tony Awards and Partners.

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