We already knew that Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical solo show, Wishful Drinking, was headed to Broadway. What we didn’t know was that Fisher will be Drinking at Berkeley Repertory Theatre before heading for New York. Wishful Drinking, a humorous re-telling of Fisher’s celebrity upbringing as the spawn of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher as well her [...]
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Carrie Fisher strikes back, `Spelling Bee’ extends
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Posted by Chad Jones on 21 May 09 - 1 Comment
Come on I wanna Leia: Fisher lands on Broadway
Archived in the category: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway, Carrie Fisher, Danny Hoch, Mary Zimmerman, Passing Strange, Philip Kan Gotanda, Sarah Jones, Sarah Ruhl, Stew, Tony Kushner, Tony Taccone, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 30 Apr 09 - 0 Comments
Another week, another Berkeley Repertory Theatre show going to Broadway. Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical solo show Wishful Drinking, directed by Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone, will open in October at — where else? — Studio 54, where it runs through Jan. 3. The show is produced by Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Jonathan Reinis, [...]
Box-office boom
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Posted by Chad Jones on 28 May 08 - 0 Comments
Some good news from box offices both national and local today. First the local. According to Berkeley Repertory Theatre, coming to the end of its 40th anniversary season, Nilaja Sun’s No Child… broke the box office record for single-day sales last Saturday (May 24). The previous record was set a couple of months ago by [...]
Carrie Fisher hits the road
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Posted by Chad Jones on 24 Apr 08 - 1 Comment
The force is most certainly with her. Carrie Fisher, fresh from her hit Berkeley Repertory Theatre show Wishful Drinking, a one-woman autobiographical play, is taking the show on the road. And no wonder: in 9 1/2 weeks, the show took in $1.3 million. Producer Jonathan Reinis is sending Wishful across the country. The first stop [...]
Carrie Fisher is funny
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Posted by Chad Jones on 07 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
Want proof? Watch this ad for her show Wishful Drinking at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Review: Carrie Fisher’s ‘Wishful Drinking’
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Posted by Chad Jones on 20 Feb 08 - 1 Comment
Opened Feb. 19, 2008 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sex, drugs, drinking, celebrity: Fisher tackles it all in Wishful Drinking three 1/2 stars Her mother is famous for, among other things, a movie musical with Gene Kelly and buckets of rain. Now Carrie Fisher is, in a sense, carrying on her mother’s legacy, though she’s singing [...]
Looking ahead: Theater ‘08 highlights
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cal Shakes, Caroline, or Change, Carrie Fisher, Duncan Sheik, SF Playhouse, Shotgun Players, Spring Awakening, Steven Sater, TheatreWorks, Thick Description, backstage, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 03 Jan 08 - 3 Comments
There are some theater treats heading our way in 2008. Here’s a mere sampling. The show I’m most excited about also seems the furthest away. The national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening is slated to start sometime in the second half of the year, courtesy of SHN/Best of Broadway. Spring Awakening was [...]
The unsinkable Debbie Reynolds
Posted by Chad Jones on 02 Dec 07 - 0 Comments
It seems Debbie Reynolds has been around since show biz was invented — not show business, but, you know, SHOW BIZ! The razzley-dazzley, tap-dancing kind of show biz. From her first big break in movies, as demure Cathy Selden opposite Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor in Singing in the Rain, Reynolds has been one of [...]
The Fisher queen
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Posted by Chad Jones on 01 Jul 07 - 2 Comments
It’s old news by now that Carrie Fisher will be replacing Rita Moreno next spring in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s 40th anniversary season. Fisher will be doing her solo autobiographical show Wishful Drinking, and last week, she gave a press conference at Berkeley Rep with artistic director Tony Taccone, who will take over as director and [...]
