An Evening with Fran Lebowitz Re-Scheduled at Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House

The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center announced today that the Fran Lebowitz show has been rescheduled. Previously scheduled for two shows on March 31 and April 1, the show was canceled due to a malfunction of the fire suppression system in the Wyly Theatre. Author, journalist and social observer Fran Lebowitz will now appear for one night only at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 1 at the Winspear Opera House in the downtown Dallas Arts District. Moderator for the evening will be Michael Granberry, arts writer, The Dallas Morning News.

Tickets and parking purchased for the previously scheduled engagement will be honored for the rescheduled performance. Ticket prices for Fran Lebowitz range from $65 to $25 and can be purchased online at www.attpac.org, by phone at 214-880-0202 or in person at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Winspear Opera House Box Office at 2403 Flora Street. The Box Office will be open 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. seven days a week and before performances.

Center Members get access to the best available tickets. Call Membership Services at 214-978-2888 or go to www.attpac.org/support to join. Center Membership presale began Monday, January 30.

Fran Lebowitz, purveyor of urban cool, witty chronicler of the "me decade" and the cultural satirist whom many call the heir to Dorothy Parker, remains one of the foremost advocates of the Extreme Statement. She offers insights on timely issues such as gender, race, gay rights, and the media as well as her own pet peeves - including celebrity culture, tourists and strollers.

In a recent interview in the New York Observer, Ms. Lebowitz holds forth on NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, " We don't have time for Bloomberg...there are certain things that are in the public sphere and certain things that are in the private sphere...What people eat? It's their own business. Bedbugs he should take care of. That's a public health issue. Did you ever hear anyone say, 'Do you like New York?' 'No, too salty."

Lebowitz on multiculturalism: "It's pathetic. Of course the world is diverse. And the differences always express themselves. It's much more important that you emphasize similarities ...there is practically nobody willing to identify themselves as American anymore because everybody is too busy identifying themselves with the area of their lives in which they feel the most victimized." On aging: "At a certain point, the worst picture taken of you when you are 25 is better than the best picture taken of you when you're 45," and "What everyone says when you turn 60 is, 'It's better than the alternative,' If the only thing worse than being 60 is death, that's pretty bad."

That is Fran Lebowitz off-the-cuff. Her writing - pointed, taut and economical - is equally forthright, irascible, and unapologetically opinionated. Fran Lebowtiz's first two classic books of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, have been collected in the Fran Lebowitz Reader. She is also the author of the children's book, Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas. A documentary film about Fran Lebowitz, Public Speaking, directed by Martin Scorsese, premiered on HBO in November 2010.

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