Bob The Drag Queen Debuts At Provincetown's Town Hall

By: Aug. 21, 2018
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Bob The Drag Queen Debuts At Provincetown's Town Hall Producer Mark Cortale has announced that Bob The Drag Queen, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 8, will make her anticipated debut at Town Hall in Provincetown for one show only, during Labor Day Weekend, on Sunday, September 2 at 8:30 PM. For Tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

Bob The Drag Queen has been a well-known New York City comedian and drag performer for over eight years, and has been touring the world since her crowning moment in 2016 on RuPaul's Drag Race season 8. Prior to appearing on Drag Race, she won the title of Best New Comedian in 2014 "at some other Broadway adjacent neighborhood comedy club." Bob has been seen in the HBO series "High Maintenance, Words - a Documentary," and the independent film, "Cherry Pop." In July 2017, Bob's stand-up special, "Bob The Drag Queen: Suspiciously Large Woman," made its debut on the Logo network. Bob is currently working on a stand-up documentary titled, "A Queen for the People." Famous people that like Bob include, but are not limited to, are Kathy Najimy, Neil Patrick Harris, Anna Kendrick, Kim Chi, Cynthia Erivo, Bob's Assistant, and 'your aunt that never got married.' He most recently starred in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" with Stephen Spinella at Berkeley Rep.

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Mark Cortale (Artist Manager & Producer) is the Producing Artistic Director at The Art House in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He produced Deconstructing Patti on Broadway this past September at the Nederlander Theatre with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS starring Patti LuPone and Seth Rudetsky which raised over $280,000 in one night. He also launched the Broadway @ concert series in 2011 at The Art House. The series, featuring creative partner Seth Rudetsky as music director and host, had its seventh season last summer and guest artists included Sutton Foster, Jessie Mueller, Megan Hilty, Faith Prince, Beth Malone, Melissa Errico and Michael Cerveris. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally and in London's West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theater. The series has since travelled to cities that include Chicago @ The Steppenwolf, Beverly Hills @ The Wallis, Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Herbst Theatre and Scottsdale @ Scottsdale Center for the Arts. Other artists who have participated include Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole, Chita Rivera, Kelli O'Hara, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Rosie O'Donnell, Vanessa Williams and Gavin Creel. Mark also produced the feature film "Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads" and the web television series "Seth's Reality". He manages the singing string quartet Well-Strung which he co-founded. Info at markcortalepresents.com.

Beginning this fall, in addition to its many outposts in venues across the U.S. and on London's West End, the "Broadway @" series comes full circle with the launch of the "Broadway @ Town Hall" series in New York City - kicking-off with legendary six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald - smack dab in the middle of Broadway itself.



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