Tulis McCall's ALL ABOARD Set for United Solo Festival, 9/25

Writer/Performer Tulis McCall will present her latest solo work ALL ABOARD: A Woman of a Certain Age Sticks Her Fingers Into The Light Socket of Life And Invites You To Hold Hands, a funny, poignant and gently in-your-face rumination on arriving at the inevitable unprepared. ALL ABOARD is part of the United Solo Festival with a performance on Friday, September 25th at 7:30pm at The Studio Theatre @ Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street - just east of Broadway.) Tickets are $18 and may be obtained through Telecharge.com/(212) 279-6200. For further information, please visit allaboard.nyc.

In All ABOARD..., writer and performer Tulis McCall invites the audience into the world of A Woman Of A Certain Age. For McCall, being A Woman Of A Certain Age has its advantages. Opinions have free reign. Age provides perspective. There are also the disadvantages. Invisibility, for instance. From her personal vantage point McCall assesses the markers and milestones on a journey that is universal. Once we are evicted from the womb, we all share the same challenge: how to manage the journey. McCall muses on how we ignore and euphemize aging, especially the female variety, until we arrive on its doorstep. When we wake to the fact that what is ahead of us is shorter than what is behind, the situation begs the question, "How did this happen, and what am I going to do about it?" Alternately hilarious, thoughtful and out-of-the-box intelligent, this is a show that pulls apart the minutiae of life's machinery and reassembles the pieces in a new configuration.

"If you are older, I am right behind you," says McCall. "If you are younger, think of me as being on the other side of your mid-life crisis. If you are my peer, welcome to the Bar Car. Drinks are on the house."

Bio

Tulis McCall is an actor, writer, producer and performer. Since 2007, she has hosted Monologues and Madness - an evening of original work read by 12-15 actors - each month at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village. She is the author of two previous one-person shows. What Everywoman Knows - a historical comedy combined with the true and often neglected stories of our foremothers - was produced at the Public Theatre in New York by Michael Moriarty and the Potters Field Theatre Company and at the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles by Dan Lauria, Joanna Kerns and Peter Gatien. McCall has toured this show to theatres, colleges and high schools in over 40 states. Her second one-person show, Running With Scissors - stories of contemporary urban lives - was directed by Philip Proctor of the Firesign Theatre and became Critic's Pick of both the L.A. Weekly andBackstage West. She is the creator and editor of the theatre review site www.thefrontrowcenter.com (formerly www.ushernonsense.com) which now features 20 writers and covers over 300 shows per year.

She thinks the theatre is a temple. Period.

Photo by Colman Domingo