For Immediate Release
Press Contact: Betsyann Faiella
bafaiella@savoypr.com
310.283.2415
Cornelia Street Café Presents Are You Serious? – A Woman of a Certain Age Inquires
A solo work written and performed by Tulis McCall
2015 Best Storytelling Script Award Winner – United Solo™ Festival
Sundays, January 8, 15, 22 and 29th, 13th @ 3:00pm (doors open at 2:00pm for drinks and brunch)
Sundays, February 5, 12, 19 and 26 @ 3:00pm (doors open at 2:00pm for drinks and brunch)
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014
Phone: 212.989.9319
New York, NY– December 11 – Cornelia Street Café welcomes award-winning writer/performer, Tulis McCall, for her one-person show, Are You Serious? – A Woman of a Certain Age Inquires. This funny, poignant and gently in-your-face rumination on arriving at the inevitable and being unprepared will be performed on Sundays, January 8, 15, 22 and 29, February 5, 12, 19 and 26 at 3:00pm (Doors open at 2pm for drinks and brunch). The ticket charge is $10.00, and a $10 food or beverage minimum per person applies. For reservations call: 212.989.9319. The performance runs approx. 50 minutes. The historic Cornelia Street Café is in Greenwich Village at 29 Cornelia Street, between Bleecker and West 4th Streets.
Frank, funny, and refreshingly honest…feels both familiar and terrifying. – Plays to See
A passionate and strong playwright and performer not to be missed! – Stage Buddy
Tulis is crazy…like a fox, and her sly performance offers a frenzy of hard truths and hilarious proclamations. – The Front Row Center
Original, funny, insightful and moving. – Angelina Fiordellisi, Cherry Lane Theater
Brilliant and totally unique thinker. Hilarious… touching and provocative. – Robert Creighton, Creator and Star of CAGNEY
“If you are older than I, thank you for beating the bushes and leaving a trail,” says McCall. “If you are younger than I, think of me as waiting for you on the other side of your mid-life crisis. If you are my peer, welcome to the Bar Car. Drinks are on the house.”
In Are You Serious? McCall asks us to reflect on a journey that is universal but rarely acknowledged. “Once we are ‘evicted from the womb’ we are all on the same trajectory, so why is our mortality the last thing any of us want to discuss or consider?” McCall muses on how we ignore and euphemize aging, especially the female variety, until we arrive on its doorstep. “We dismiss the mileage on our own personal odometers until we reach that tipping point where the future is shorter than the past.”
Bio
Tulis McCall is an actor, writer, producer and performer. She is the recipient of the 2015 Best Storytelling Script Award from UNITED SOLO™ for her show All Aboard! Since 2007, she has hosted Monologues and Madness, an evening of original work read by 12-15 actors, each month at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village. She is the author of two previous one-person shows. What Everywoman Knows – A Historical Comedy featuring the true and often neglected stories of our foremothers – was produced at the Public Theatre in New York by Michael Moriarty and the Potters Field Theatre Company and at the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles by Dan Lauria, Joanna Kerns and Peter Gatien. McCall has toured this show to theatres, colleges and high schools in over 40 states. Her second one-person show, Running With Scissors – stories of contemporary urban lives – was directed by Philip Proctor of the Firesign Theatre and became Critic’s Choice of both the L.A. Weekly and Backstage West. Are You Serious? — A Woman of a Certain Age Inquires is a newly updated version of All Aboard! A Woman of a Certain Age Sticks Her Fingers Into the Light Socket of the Universe and Invites You to Hold Hands.
McCall is the creator and editor of the theatre review site http://thefrontrowcenter.com (formerly www.ushernonsense.com) which now features 20 writers and covers over 300 shows per year.
She thinks the theatre is a temple.
Period.
Video can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/dGrxqp5k1r8
General Press Representative for Tulis McCall: Betsyann Faiella, SavoyPR
bafaiella@savoypr.com
Phone: 310.283.2415