SAN DIEGO — The Old Globe announced Thursday that due to ticket demand, the hilarious Buyer & Cellar, which starts previews this Saturday, April 4, will now play through Sunday, May 10! Broadway veteran David Turner (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Arcadia, Sunday in the Park with George) will star in Jonathan Tolins’s (The Twilight of the Golds) acclaimed Off Broadway hit, directed by Ron Lagomarsino (The Last Night of Ballyhoo, My Favorite Year, “Homefront,” “Ravenswood”). The one-man, tour-de-force comedy, which continues the Globe’s 80th Anniversary festivities as part of the Balboa Park Centennial Celebration, will now run April 4 through May 10 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Preview performances run April 4 through April 8. Opening night is Thursday, April 9 at 8:00 p.m. Single tickets for the extension week will go on sale Tuesday, April 7 at 12 noon. Tickets can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE, or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.
What’s a renowned diva to do with decades of memories that light the corners of her mind? And where to put the acres of memorabilia bursting the seams of her Malibu estate? If you’re Barbra Streisand, you enshrine them in a mini-mall in your basement where you can pretend to go shopping! Out-of-work actor Alex More can’t pass up the oddest of odd jobs—an offer to play shopkeeper for one tough customer who doesn’t let anyone rain on her parade. Soon it begins to take a toll on his patience, his love life, and his view of people (who need people). Jonathan Tolins’s “totally fictional” Off Broadway hit will have you rolling in the aisles and realizing why The New York Times called it “seriously funny – a remarkably sustained slice of absurdist whimsy,” and the New York Daily News declared, “This play deserves a hearty ‘Hello, gorgeous!’”
David Turner stars as Alex More. Turner recently starred in the Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever alongside Harry Connick Jr. and Jessie Mueller. His other Broadway credits include Arcadia, Sunday in the Park with George, The Ritz, In My Life, and The Invention of Love, the latter of which was directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Emeritus Jack O’Brien. His Off Broadway credits include As You Like It, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, as well as The Last Sunday in June (also by Jonathan Tolins), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), The Butter and Egg Man, Gutenberg! The Musical!, and most recently The Good Person of Szechwan at The Public Theater. Among Turner’s television appearances are “Lipstick Jungle,” “The Good Wife,” and HBO’s “The Leftovers.” He is the recipient of two Helen Hayes Award nominations and BMI’s prestigious Jerry Harrington Musical Theater Award for songwriting.
The creative team for Buyer & Cellar includes Erik Flatmo (Scenic Design), Charlotte Devaux (Costume Design), Philip S. Rosenberg (Lighting Design), Lindsay Jones (Original Music and Sound Design), Caparelliotis Casting (Casting), and Jess Slocum (Production Stage Manager).
“Buyer & Cellar is one of those wonderful plays that comes at you with a lot of laughs and then sneaks up on you with deep things to think about,” said Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. “Jonathan Tolins is one of the funniest playwrights out there, and he just nails that crazy Los Angeles world where the struggling actors and the movie stars—the Queen Bees and the wannabes—somehow mingle side by side. His play makes us reconsider the distance between superstar and nobody, and he spins a wildly inventive and surprisingly sweet yarn along the way. The brilliant Ron Lagomarsino navigates this daffy piece with great skill, and David Turner finds every nuance, from the biggest belly laugh to the most tender heartbreak. This is a special one, and I’m very pleased that we’ve been able to extend its run so that even more San Diegans get the chance to embrace it.”
