The Skivvies' Nick Cearley Stars in BUYER & CELLAR, Opening Tonight at Bucks County Playhouse

"Buyer and Cellar" is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs. Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar stars Nick Cearley ("The Skivvies") as a struggling Los Angeles actor who finds himself working in Barbra Streisand's basement!

It is directed by Sarna Lapine and debuts at Bucks County Playhouse officially tonight, November 9, for a run through November 26. Bucks County Playhouse's "Buyer and Cellar" is produced by Robyn Goodman, Alexander Fraser, Stephen Kocis and Josh Fiedler.

In "Buyer and Cellar" Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement, but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? "Buyer and Cellar" is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.

Tolins is perhaps best known as the playwright of "The Twilight of the Golds" (Broadway), "If Memory Serves," "The Last Sunday in June" and "Secrets of the Trade." He co-wrote the films "The Twilight of the Golds" and "Martian Child." He was a consulting producer on the recent CBS comedy "Partners" and was a co-producer on the first season of "Queer As Folk" on Showtime.

Nick Cearley is returning to Bucks County Playhouse for the fifth time after having appeared twice in "The Rocky Horror Show"(directed by Hunter Foster) as Brad Majors, as well as in "Plaid Tidings" (directed by Gordon Greenberg), and BCP's "A Tribute to Angela Lansbury." Cearley is one half of the critically acclaimed "undie"-rock comedy duo known as The Skivvies, co-created with Lauren Molina. Cearley is a veteran of "Buyer and Cellar" having appeared in five different productions of the show around the country. He has been seen in the First National Tour of the Broadway musical "All Shook Up" and Off-Broadway in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Pageant: The Musical" and "Sex Tips... ." Cearley has performed at some of the country's most prominent regional theaters including Portland Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, American Stage Theatre Company, Eugene O Neill Center and more. Cearley was recently named on the OUT100 list by OUT Magazine for one of the most compelling and intriguing LGBT actors of the year.

The scenic and projection design for Buyer & Cellar is by Chick Shimizu; lighting design is by Gina Scherr; sound design is by Matt Given. The production stage manager is Kevin Carson.

"Buyer and Cellar" is the final production of Bucks County Playhouse's record-breaking 2016 season, which kicked off in May with the box office smash, "Steel Magnolias," starring Jessica Walter, Susan Sullivan and Patricia Richardson. The highest grossing play in Playhouse history, "Steel Magnolias" was followed by another box office record-breaker - "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story," which earned its place as The Playhouse's top grossing musical. Attendance at The Playhouse during the 2016 season was up 25% over the previous year.

Bucks County Playhouse will offer discounted preview performances of "Buyer and Cellar" on Saturday, November 5 at 2 pm and 8 pm, Sunday, November 6 at 2 pm, and Tuesday, November 8 at 7:30 pm. Tickets to preview performances are only $30. The official opening is Wednesday, November 9 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $39-$74 plus fees.

The production will play the following schedule: Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 2 pm, Thursdays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Special added performances on Thanksgiving Week Wednesday, November 23 at 7:30 pm and Friday, November 25 at 2 pm. The Playhouse will hold a special LGBT performance on Tuesday, November 15 and a Ladies' Night performance on Thursday, November 17.

Single tickets to "Buyer and Cellar" are on sale now. For full details, and to purchase tickets, please visit buckscountyplayhouse.org, call 215-862-2121, or visit the box office at 70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA.

Bucks County Playhouse, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, is the oldest and largest professional Equity performing arts center in Bucks County. Under the direction of Tony Award-winning producers, Alexander Fraser and Robyn Goodman, The Playhouse provides first class professional theatrical entertainment as well as community events, partnerships and arts education programming for visitors and residents of New Hope, Doylestown, Lambertville and the Delaware Valley.

Located between Philadelphia and New York, Bucks County Playhouse opened in 1939 in a converted 1790 gristmill after a group of community activists, led by Broadway orchestrator Don Walker and playwright Moss Hart, rallied to save the building. The Playhouse quickly became one of the country's most famous regional theaters, featuring a roster of American theatrical royalty including Helen Hayes, Kitty Carlisle, George S. Kaufman, Grace Kelly, Robert Redford, Bert Lahr, Walter Matthau, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Alan Alda, Tyne Daly, Liza Minnelli and Audra McDonald and remained in continuous operation until December 2010. In 2012, The Playhouse re-opened thanks to the efforts of the Bridge Street Foundation, the nonprofit family foundation of Kevin and Sherri Daugherty, and Broadway producer Jed Bernstein.

Since its renovation, significant productions include Terrence McNally's "Mothers and Sons" starring Tyne Daly, which moved to Broadway and was nominated for two Tony Awards, and "Misery" by William Goldman based on the Stephen King novel which also went on to a Broadway run in the 2015-16 season. Two of The Playhouse's recent productions -- "Company" starring Justin Guarini, and William Finn's "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" -- were named by Wall Street Journal to its "Best of Theatre" list for 2015.

To post a comment, you must register and login.