Special Event: Atlas and SpeakeasyDC present Faye Lane’s Beauty Shop Stories – One Night Only

Award-winning Faye Lane’s Beauty Shop Stories
comes to the Atlas Performing Arts Center on June 30, 2012, 8:00 pm
Presented by SpeakeasyDC and the Atlas Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $22.  For tickets visit www.atlasarts.org

Faye Lane’s Beauty Shop Stories is a show about the hilarious and heartfelt memories of a fat little Texas Green Bean Queen told through poignant story and stirring song.

The show has been in residence at the famed Soho Playhouse in New York City for a year and has won numerous awards including: Winner of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival’s Overall Excellence Award for a Solo Show, 2011 MAC Award for Special Production and the 2011 Bistro Award for Musical Comedy. Joan Rivers raves, “That girl belongs on Broadway!”

New York Magazine proclaims, “She had them gobbling from the palm of her hand… they were howling, crying, falling in love with her.”

“With her Texas lilt and gentle demeanor, writer-performer Faye Lane serves up a show that’s sweeter than banana MoonPies and RC Cola… Endearing and soaring voiced – a real standout.” – Backstage

“Simultaneously hip and down-home. Her 90-minute performance recounts a series of delicious tales from Lane’s childhood and early career.” – Dallas Morning News

“Rich with characters and detail, she draws the audience into her world. We laugh and cry with her…” – Bust Magazine

Directed by MAC Award winner, Jay Rogers, Faye Lane’s Beauty Shop Stories features music written by Keith Thompson, Larry Rosen and Carol Hall (music and lyrics for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas).

Showbiz Weekly raved that Faye Lane is one of New York’s most beloved and respected storytellers. Stories and songs from Faye Lane’s Beauty Shop Stories have been presented at Caroline’s on Broadway, Comix, The Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, The Pulse Theater, Stage Left, Cornelia Street Cafe, The Time Out New York Lounge, 92nd Street Y Tribeca, and Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater as well as at The Improv in Washington DC, The Jewel Box Theater in Seattle, The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon, L’Etage in Philadelphia, the Victoria Event Center in Victoria, BC, and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she received a glowing four star review from The Scotsman. A winner of the Moth Story Slam in both New York and Los Angeles, she can be heard on NPR’s Cityscapes and The Moth Radio Hour.

Director Jay Rogers is a four-time MAC Award winner and Drama Desk Award nominee for Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly. Music Director David Shenton has established an enviable reputation as a pianist, violinist, composer and arranger. David performs frequently at leading New York venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, Feinstein’s, Birdland, Merkin Hall and Joe‘s Pub, and has played with such luminaries as Tony Bennett, Renée Fleming, Katie Couric and Denyce Graves. Produced by Adam Magazine.

For more information, please go to www.beautyshopstories.com