Wanda Sykes Performs Tonight at Hershey Theatre

Hershey Theatre will welcome Wanda Sykes to the stage tonight, October 2 at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets for this show are $42.50, $49.50 and $65.00 (tax and applicable fees apply) and are available at Hershey Theatre Box Office. They can be charged by phone at 717-534-3405 and online at www.HersheyEntertainment.com or www.TicketMaster.com.

She has been called "one of the funniest stand-up comics" by her peers and ranks among ranks among Entertainment Weekly's "25 Funniest People in America". Her smart-witted stand up has sent her career in many different areas.

In 2012, Wanda joined forces with veteran producer Page Hurwitz to form Push It Productions, a production company dedicated to creating quality, comedy-based programming for network and cable television outlets. The company's diverse slate of projects includes sketch comedy, concerts, reality, talk/variety and competition formats. Their first set of specials, Herlarious aired in summer of 2013 and January 2014 on OWN and was the recipient of a 2014 Gracie Award.

Sykes was previously seen on several television shows over the past few years. She was on the Amazon Prime show Alpha House created by Gary Trudeau about a group of Republican Senators who share the same DC rental house; she made a return to HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm; she also spent five years on CBS's New Adventures of Old Christine. In 2010, she starred on her own late night talk show on FOX, The Wanda Sykes Show. Other TV credits include Fox's Wanda at Large which she wrote, produced and starred in; Wanda Does It on Comedy Central and on Crank Yankers as the voice of Gladys Murphy.