Sandra Bernhard Performs at The Colonial Theatre Tonight, 10/20

Comedian and actress, Sandra Bernhard, performs at The Colonial Theatre tonight, October 20 at 8pm.  

Sandra Bernhard began her career at L.A.'s famed Comedy Store in the '70s, and since then has written and starred in numerous one-woman shows, acted in movies and on television, recorded albums and authored books. Her first one-woman show, the groundbreaking Without You I'm Nothing, ran for 6 months off Broadway in 1988 and served as inspiration for the film and Grammy-nominated album of the same name. The critically acclaimed I'm Still Here… Dammit! opened off-Broadway in 1997, moved to Broadway a year later, and was filmed for an HBO special. The New York Times described Bernhard as a "living, breathing bonfire” and applauded the show, calling it "an angst driven, foul-mouthed, poison laced joy ride that banks and careens frenetically through the worlds of fashion, celebrity, rock, and religion.” In 2006, Bernhard's Everything Bad and Beautiful also opened to raves. 

From 1991-1996 Bernhard played Nancy Bartlett—the first openly gay character on a network sitcom—on Roseanne. And she has had guest starring or recurring roles on numerous other shows, among them: Good Christian Belles, Hot in Cleveland, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Crossing Jordan, Law & Order: SVU, Will&Grace, The Sopranos, The L Word, Ally McBeal, The Larry Sanders Show, and The Richard Pryor Show. She has appeared more than 30 times on Late Night with David Letterman and has been a regular guest of Howard Stern's since the early '80s.