B Street to Present the Regional Premiere of BUYER & CELLAR Starring Nick Cearley

B Street Theatre, Sacramento's Resident New Works Theatre, is pleased to present the Regional Premiere of Buyer & Cellar, a one-man show by playwright Jonathan Tolins. Enjoying immediate success at the non-profit Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Buyer & Cellar moved to the Barrow Street Theatre for an Off-Broadway run. Playing to sold-out houses for months, Buyer & Cellar received an Off-Broadway extension until April of 2014. The critically acclaimed production went on to receive a Chicago engagement followed by a US Tour through November 2014.

About Buyer & Cellar

"Winner of the 2014-2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show.

Jonathan Tolins has concocted an irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of fictitious premises-an underemployed Los Angeles actor goes to work in Barbra Streisand's Malibu, Calif., basement-allowing the playwright to ruminate with delicious wit and perspicacity on the solitude of celebrity, the love-hate attraction between gay men and divas, and the melancholy that lurks beneath narcissism. This seriously funny slice of absurdist whimsy creates the illusion of a stage filled with multiple people, all of them with their own droll point of view." - The New Yorker

Alex More (Nick Cearley) has a story to tell. A struggling actor in L.A., he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar, Barbra Streisand. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement, but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.

About Nick Cearley - The Actor Behind Alex More

B Street Theatre is pleased to present critically acclaimed Off-Broadway and regional theatre actor Nick Cearley in the role of Alex More. Nick is slated to perform Alex More in two subsequent regional premieres of Buyer & Cellar taking place later this year. B Street Theatre is thrilled to be working with Nick for his Buyer & Cellar debut.

Nick Cearley is thrilled to return to Sacramento after last appearing here while touring in the First National Tour of All Shook Up and even more thrilled to be part of this regional premiere. As a musician, Nick is ½ of the "Undie"-Rock Comedy Duo known as The Skivvies (theskivviesnyc.com) which he co-created with Lauren Molina and has been critically acclaimed by such publications as People Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Out Magazine, The Advocate, NY POST, NY Daily News, and Wall Street Journal. Nick was also recently honored on the prestigious OUT 100 list of most "influential and compelling LGBT actors of 2014." Broadway 1st National: All Shook Up. Most recently seen Off-Broadway in Pageant: The Musical (also Original Cast Album on Jay Records). Other Regional: Henry in Next to Normal (League of Cincinnati Theatre Award for Acting Excellence), ...And Then I Wrote a Song About It (Best Lead Actor in a Musical/The Star Ledger, NJ), ...Spelling Bee, ...Trailer Park Musical, Altar Boyz, and The Rocky Horror Show (directed by Hunter Foster). Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Huntington Theatre Company, Luna Stage, Diversionary Theatre, Rubicon Theatre, American Stage Theatre Company, New York Stage and Film, York Theatre. He has also shot TV pilots for Fox, We, and A&E. Next up, Nick will be playing Puck in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Off-Broadway at Masterworks Classic Theatre Company and will also be doing two more regional premieres of Buyer & Cellar in Ohio and Florida later this year. Twitter: @clearlycearley and @theskivviesnyc

B Street Theatre's B3 Series and Buyer & Cellar

B Street is pleased to present Buyer & Cellar as the second of four shows in our 2014-2015 B3 Series season. We believe that Buyer & Cellar is the perfect representation of B Street's B3 aesthetic and a wonderful follow-up to the first show of our B3 Season The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence. Buyer & Cellar is funny, smart and often outrageous; an unpredictable but satisfying ride for both the serious theatre-goer and those who just want to have a good laugh. While B Street's Mainstage often produces plays that are considered to be mainstream or popular comedies, the B3 Series allows us to produce works that appeal to a more niche audience of the serious theatregoer. Since it's genesis in 2007, the B3 Series has become one of the many ways in which B Street offers theatre for everyone.

Play: Buyer & Cellar

Playwright: Jonathan Tolins

JONATHAN TOLINS (Playwright) is the author of Buyer & Cellar, which was named Best Unique Theatrical Experience by the Off-Broadway Alliance when it premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Other plays include The Twilight of the Golds (Broadway, Booth Theatre), If Memory Serves (Promenade), The Last Sunday in June (Rattlestick, Century Center) and Secrets of the Trade (Primary Stages). A collection of his plays has been published by Grove/Atlantic. His film work includes The Twilight of the Golds and Martian Child. For television, he was a writer for "Queer as Folk," The Academy Awards, The Tony Awards and "Partners." He was the author of Pushkin 200: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, acted as script consultant on Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular, and co-wrote The Divine Millennium Tour and The Showgirl Must Go On for Bette Midler. He has written articles for Opera News, Opera Monthly, TheaterWeek, Time magazine and The Huffington Post, and is a panelist on the Metropolitan Opera Radio Quiz. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with his husband, the writer and director Robert Cary, and their children, Selina and Henry. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America.

Director: David Pierini

Dave Pierini - David has been working in professional theatre for over twenty years. He joined Actor's Equity Association in 1990 when he performed with The Fantasy Theatre For Children, a touring children's theatre company founded by Timothy Busfield. In 1994, David joined The B Street Theatre as an artistic associate, a position he held for six years. In that time, David acted in numerous plays, wrote and directed productions for the company's touring company and oversaw the internship program. He was also instrumental in running a weekly play reading series, developing new scripts for the theatre. In 2000, taking a break from acting, David moved to New York where he lived for four years. David came back to The B Street Theatre in 2004 where he appeared immediately in one of the theatre company's biggest hits, Around the World in 80 Days. Mr. Pierini reprised his multiple roles in 80 Days for B Street's tour of that show to India. David also began writing for the B Street Theatre's Family Series, adapting Gertrude Warner's Boxcar Children. He has also adapted The Prince and the Pauper, Tom Sawyer, Pinocchio, The Snow Queen, Finding Our Voice: Susan B. Anthony and the Women's Suffrage Movement and most recently, Beauty and the Beast. He collaborated with Artistic Director Buck Busfield on an adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. David is a member of the B Street Theatre Acting Company, appearing in many shows for both the mainstage, the B3 series and the Family series. David was instrumental in forming the B Street Theatre's Sketch/Improv company and has hosted a talk show, Sactown Tonight from the stage of B Street. He has also directed many plays for the company, most recently, The Ladies Foursome. David received the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission's Emerging Artist Award in 1999.

Cast:

Alex More : Nick Cearley (See bio listed above).

B3 Series Background

The newest series of the B Street Theatre has a more serious and dramatic focus and features new contemporary plays for the more adventurous theatregoer. The B3 Series opened with a Pulitzer Prize winning drama on September 25, 2007 and presents four to five new plays each season. The B3 Series currently operates in the 112-seat theater space at alternate times than the scheduled Family Series productions.

More about B Street Theatre: B Street Theatre is a non-profit, professional theatre company producing primarily new work for adults, families and children. The two-theatre playhouse on B Street in Midtown Sacramento is home to the Mainstage Series, B3 Series and Family Series, each created to feature intimate, quality theatre for audiences year-round. Recognized as one of the nation's top professional theatres, B Street Theatre has produced more than 100 new plays, 60 of which are world, national, West Coast or regional premieres.

B Street Theatre was originally founded in 1986 for the purpose of bringing the excitement of live performance to children through the B Street Theatre School Tour. This educational outreach program serves over 200,000 students in Northern California annually.

Other B Street Theatre programs include the B Street Theatre Family Series and Family Series Student Matinees (for school field trips), the B3 Series, B Street Acting Conservatory and Studio for Young People, and the B Street Theatre Internship program for pre-professional/post- college training.

B Street Theatre has produced over 250 professional productions since 1986. More information at www.bstreettheatre.org.

The mission of B Street Theatre is to promote education and literacy, social interaction, and cultural enrichment by engaging children and adults in the highest quality theatre arts and playwriting.

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