Ray DeForest Stars in The Doris Dear Special, LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER at The Triad Theater

2016 MAC award winner, Doris Dear, the inner Housewife of Ray DeForest, returns to the Rumpus Room at The Triad Theater for a one night only event on April 20th at 7pm! Grab a seat in the Rumpus Room for "The Doris Dear Special, Like Mother Like Daughter" where Doris Dear celebrates her mother Taffy and mother's everywhere with her special guests Hansen Award and MAC award winner Meg Flather, award winning vocalist Shaynee Rainbolt, award winning singer extraordinaire, Lina Koutrakos and that mischievous dispenser of musical repartee Sidney Myer! The Rumpus Room will be full of rousing numbers from Broadway and the radio ... as well as hilarious and sometimes touching original stories of how our Mother's influence our inner "housewife". So come join us in the Rumpus Room for a good old fashioned show that leaves you smiling and humming your whole way home.

The show is written and performed by MAC Award winner, Dramatist Guild member and SAG/AFTRA National LGBT Board Member Ray DeForest and inspired by the great TV variety specials that were the standard of TV watching in the 50's, 60's and 70's!

Ray DeForest in "The Doris Dear Special: Like Mother Like Daughter" plays The Triad Theater (158 W 72nd St, New York, NY 10023) April 20th at 7pm. There is a $30 - $25 cover charge and 2 drink minimum. Tickets and information are available at http://www.triadnyc.com

The Triad is an Off-Broadway theatre located on West 72nd Street on New York's Upper West Side. The theatre has been the original home to some of the longest running ...

Doris Dear, the "other" inner Housewife of Ray DeForest, has been featured in movies (Men in Black 3, The Normal Heart) and TV shows (The Carrie Diaries) and has toured with "her" successful show "Doris Dear's Gurl Talk". Ray has been performing professionally for 38 years around the world in tours, stage shows, revues and was a host on TV's HGTV, Food Network, and had his own "How To" TV show syndicated through Fox Syndication. Ray is also a commercial producer with his company "DeForest Theatricals" with projects in the works for Broadway and the U.K.