McCarter Theater Adds Folds, Black And Kristofferson In 2009

McCarter Theater Center has added new events for 2009.

Ben Folds has been scheduled for February 11, 2009 at 8pm.

Over the last 15 years, Ben Folds' first-class melodic gifts, irony-laced lyrics, and punk-rock tendency to play piano as if it were a contact sport have earned the North Carolina native a legion of devoted fans of all ages.

Kris Kristofferson has been booked for February 27, 2009 at 8pm.

Like his fellow singer/songwriting icons ( Bob Dylan, Neil Young, James Taylor) who have also reached living legend status, Kris Kristofferson is still going strong at age 72. Once upon a time, this former Rhodes Scholar had a dream - to become a songwriter - and for more than two decades, he was one of America's most important voices, turning out mega-hits not only for himself (Help Me Make it Through the Night) but for Janis Joplin (Me and Bobby McGee), Johnny Cash (Sunday MorningComing Down) Ray Price (For the Good Times), Waylon Jennings (The Taker) and Willie Nelson (with whom he formed The Highwaymen with Jennings and Cash in 1982). Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge were partners in song and life for several years, while he continued to record such classic albums as The Silver Tongued Devil and I and his latest, This Old Road, released just last year. In the process, he's won virtually every award the recording industry can give out. Oh yes - he hasn't done so badly as an actor either; you may have seen him in one of his more than ninety films and TV movies, a list which includes Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, A Star is Born (with Streisand) , Lone Star, the three Blades, the remake of Planet of the Apes, and most recently, Fast Food Nation. Kris Kristofferson has indeed "made it through the night."

Lewis Black has been booked for April 2, 2009 at 8pm.

George Carlin, Larry King and Jules Feiffer love Lewis Black. They love him because his insights and love/hate relationship with America are brilliantly expressed in his concerts and TV appearances worldwide. How can you not love a man who says, "Republicans are a party with bad ideas and Democrats are a party with no ideas." Will Rogers would have been proud.

Lewis is one of the most prolific and popular performers working today. He executes a brilliant trifecta as stand-up comedian, actor and author. Receiving critical acclaim, he performs over 200 nights a year to sold out audiences throughout Europe, New Zealand, Canada and The United States. He is one of few performers to sell out multiple, renowned theatres, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City Center and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. In August 2007, he was the first stand-up comedian to ever perform in concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Lewis' live performances provide a cathartic release of anger and disillusionment for his audience. Lewis yells so they don't have to. A passionate performer who is more pissed-off optimist than mean-spirited curmudgeon, he's perfected expressing what the rest of us cannot say in polite company. Lewis is the rare comic who can cause an audience to laugh themselves into incontinence while making compelling points about the absurdity of our world. It's no wonder he's been compared to Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, and Bill Hicks.

McCarter Theatre Center for the Performing Arts in Princeton is one of the most active cultural centers in the nation, offering over 200 performances of theater, dance, music and special events each year. McCarter's audience is truly a regional one. Over 200,000 people come to McCarter each season from all twenty-one counties in New Jersey as well as Pennsylvania, New York and twenty-three additional states.

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McCarter Theater Center is located at 91 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08540

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