Bass Hall Welcomes Shirley MacLaine, 4/30

Performing Arts Fort Worth proudly welcomes Academy Award®-winning actress Shirley MacLaine to Bass Performance Hall on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $33-$66, and are on sale now.

Actress, dancer and author Shirley MacLaine has enraptured live audiences and moviegoers for five decades. In this frank and provocative evening, MacLaine will combine a montage of memorable film moments with private revelations about her extraordinary life, career and spiritual journey.

Shirley MacLaine's illustrious career is comprised of more than 50 feature films, highlighted by an Academy Award win and six nominations, six Emmy® Awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, and the title of international best?selling author.

Recently, MacLaine appeared in the Lifetime made?for?TV movie Coco Chanel, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe and a SAG Award. MacLaine's latest film was the ensemble film Valentine's Day.

MacLaine released her best?selling book, Sage-ing While Age-ing, in 2008. Her 12th book, I'm Over All That - And Other Confessions, was released April 5.

Born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Va., Shirley MacLaine made her professional debut dancing in a Broadway revival of Oklahoma! in the 1950s. Her first film was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry, which earned her a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress in 1955. At the same time, she starred in Some Come Running, which led to her first Academy Award nomination and an additionAl Golden Globe nomination.

She also starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in The Children's Hour, based on a play by Lillian Hellman. MacLaine received a second Oscar nomination for her work in the award-winning film, The Apartment, co?starring Jack Lemmon and directed by Billy Wilder. She reunited with Lemmon and Wilder for Irma La Douce in 1963, earning yet another Academy Award nomination.

In 1975, MacLaine received her fourth Oscar nomination, this time for best documentary as a producer and star of The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir. Two years later, she was once again nominated, for her starring role in The Turning Point. In 1983, MacLaine finally won her Oscar for her work on Terms of Endearment. She also received a Golden Globe Award in 1989 for her performance in Madame Sousatzka. MacLaine was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1998.

MacLaine's additional film credits include Steel Magnolias with Julia Roberts, Postcards from the Edge with Meryl Streep, In Her Shoes with Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette, and Rumor Has It with Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner. Bernie, which is set to release this year, stars Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey and was written and directed by Richard Linklater.

MacLaine's television credits include the telefilms These Old Broads, Carolina and Salem Witch Trials. She also starred in the CBS miniseries, Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay, the life story of the cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash.

A longtime outspoken advocate for civil rights and liberties, women's rights and spiritual understanding, MacLaine is known for her faith in reincarnation and other New Age beliefs. She addressed these topics at length, as well as her Hollywood career, in her books Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Night. MacLaine has authored numerous other books, including The Camino and Out on a Leash.

To charge tickets by phone, call (817) 212-4280 in Fort Worth; 1-877-212-4280 (toll free) outside Fort Worth; or order online at www.basshall.com. Tickets are also available at the Bass Performance Hall ticket office at 525 Commerce Street. Ticket office hours: Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

 

 

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