The Marsh Presents Bob Scott’s THE JADE PYRAMID The Marsh Extends Ann Randolph’s LOVELAND Dan Hoyle’s Tings Dey Happen The Marsh Extends Rick Reynolds’ Only The Truth Is Funny thru September 26

One Performance Only!

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 7:30 pm on The Marsh MainStage, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $10-15 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

Coming of age in the American West at the end of the 1960’s, a young man, Billy, is drawn in by the visions and dreams of others, but learns that he must follow his own path.

Bob Scott is a fingerpicker, poet, songwriter, teller of odd stories, singer of cowboy blues, and member of many bands past and present. Some of these incarnations include Rhythm Kitchen, the Belvederes, Not Bob Scott, The Dave Marz Trio, and Lucky Lew. He holds a Doctor of Thinkology degree from Oz University. See www.myspace.com/luckylew2

Extended through December 12, 2009

“If anyone can make you laugh about a subject as serious as dying, it’s Ann Randolph sharing both vulnerability and audacious humor that are the basis of her immense talent.” Linda Ayres-Frederick. SF Bay Times
Thursday at 8:00 pm & Saturday at 5:00 pm in The Marsh Studio Theater, 1062 Valencia Street in San Francisco.

Tickets: $15-35 Sliding Scale. Reserved tickets $50.
To buy tickets, call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org.
The Marsh is excited to announce the premiere of Ann Randolph's new solo show LOVELAND. Join Randolph as she takes us on the irreverent, hilarious and deeply human journey of Franny Potts. Facing up to the greatest loss of her life while flying from LA to Ohio surrounded by strangers, Franny stumbles her way from awkward confusion through the mystery, tragedy and beauty that unite all us.

A stunning performer, Mel Brooks compares Randolph to the late Gilda Radner for her audacious humor, her generosity and her ability to take us from tears to laughter in the same minute. Randolph’s previous solo show, “Squeeze Box,” was the Winner of LA Weekly’s “Best Solo Show” and the Los Angeles Times Ovation Award for “Best Solo Performer.” Its extended run at The Marsh played to sold-out audiences for eight months last year.

September 10 – 26, 2009

Thursday at 8:00 pm; Saturday at 5:00 pm; Sunday at 7:00 pm on The Marsh Mainstage, 1062 Valencia Street in San Francisco.

Tickets: Thursday”$15-35; Saturday:$22-35; Sunday $21-35. All Sliding Scale. Reserved tickets $50.
To buy tickets, call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org.

Dan Hoyle has been invited by the US State Department to perform Tings Dey Happen, his award-winning show, in Nigeria.

“A smart, engrossing, funny, challenging and moving look at… Nigeria's bloody oil politics….an aptly complex, hard-hitting piece that paints memorably touching and entertaining figures.” –Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle

Dan Hoyle is taking TINGS DEY HAPPEN, his award-winning, solo play about Nigerian oil politics, on a whirlwind tour of Nigeria, sponsored by the U.S. State Department. The show, based on Hoyle's year in Nigeria studying oil politics on a Fulbright Scholarship, will travel to five cities in two weeks this October as part of the State Department's public diplomacy focus on anti-corruption issues.

To help Hoyle prepare for perhaps his most important audience yet, The Marsh will present a short nine-show revival of TINGS DEY HAPPEN during the last three weekends in September.

Developed with and directed by solo performance master Charlie Varon TINGS DEY HAPPEN is a riveting adventure story, a geopolitical tour de force about the year Hoyle spent exploring the West African oil frontier. The Niger Delta has been targeted as the “new Middle East” of oil security and is an extremely dangerous place.
Hoyle traveled alone around the swamps, befriending militants, warlords, diplomats, activists and prostitutes. Even the U.S. ambassador sought him out to find out what was going on. In this time of rising energy politics, and as witnessed by the State Department’s invitation, the show remains, if anything, even more relevant than when it premiered in 2007.

The Marsh Extends Rick Reynolds’ Only The Truth Is Funny: Mid-Life At The Oasis through September 26, 2009. The Marsh MainStage, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22nd Street in San Francisco. Saturday: 5:00 pm, Sunday: 7 pm

Saturdays $22-50 Sliding Scale, Sundays $15-50 Sliding Scale. $50 reserved seating
To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

The Marsh is proud to extend the San Francisco debut of critically acclaimed comedian Rick Reynolds' new one-man show, "Only The Truth Is Funny: Mid-Life At The Oasis.”

According to Rick, "I've spent the last year of my life putting this show together and I'm absolutely sure it's the best thing I've ever done. In fact, if you can find a more thought provoking and inspirational show you've seen about a middle-aged, self-obsessed, therapy-hating, cry-baby from Petaluma, I'll refund the price of your ticket.”

"Only The Truth Is Funny: Mid-Life At The Oasis" creates the kind of theater experience The San Francisco Chronicle has called "belly laughs for the heart.”