October 1, 2007

Jack Wright, (617) 598-3212, jw@celebrityseries.org

High-resolution photos: http://www.celebrityseries.org/Photo_Galleries/804-Sedaris_Gallery.htm

CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON PRESENTS BEST-SELLING AUTHOR
DAVID SEDARIS
AT SYMPHONY HALL ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2

(BOSTON)—Celebrity Series of Boston, Martha H. Jones, President and Executive Director, presents humorist and best-selling author David Sedaris on Friday, November 2 at 8:00 p.m. at Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. The engagement is sponsored by Bank of America.

This marks the fourth Celebrity Series appearance for Mr. Sedaris who last appeared with the Series in May 2006 before a sold-out audience at Symphony Hall, and made his Series debut in 2002.

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. Mr. Sedaris is the author of bestsellers Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of several personal essays including Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, each of which also became bestsellers. His essays appear regularly in Esquire and The New Yorker. Mr. Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written several plays produced at La Mama, The Drama Department, and Lincoln Center. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman’s Shoe (which received an Obie Award), Incident at Cobler’s Knob, and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatist’s Play Service.

Mr. Sedaris’ original radio pieces can be heard on This American Life distributed nationally by Public Radio International and produced by WBEZ in Chicago. In 2001, Mr. Sedaris became the third recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and was named by Time magazine as “Humorist of the Year.” An anthology of stories, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories, edited by Mr. Sedaris, was published in April 2005. Also in 2005, Mr. Sedaris was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album for Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and Best Comedy Album for David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall.

PROGRAM INFORMATION:
Friday, November 2 at 8:00 PM
Symphony Hall
DAVID SEDARIS

TICKETING INFORMATION:
Remaining tickets, priced at $40, $35, and $30, are available by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 (Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), online at www.celebrityseries.org, or at the Symphony Hall box office, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.

About Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston is New England's leading presenter of music, dance, and the performing arts from around the world. Founded in 1938, the Series incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in 1989. Each year, the Celebrity Series brings to Boston's major concert halls performances by instrumental and vocal soloists, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance companies, jazz and popular music performers, folk and ethnic performance groups, and other performing artists. The Celebrity Series' Arts, Education and Community program was initiated in 1984. The program reaches thousands of students annually in Boston area schools and communities. The program includes the award-winning AileyCamp Boston, a six-week summer dance program for Boston middle school students, and ACT 2, an after-school initiative for former participants of AileyCamp Boston. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

The Celebrity Series receives major annual support from The Little Family Foundation; the Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation; Bank of America; The Linde Family Foundation; Tufts Health Plan; Talbots Charitable Foundation; Foley & Lardner LLP; Charlesbank Capital Partners; Comcast; Morgan Stanley; BDO Seidman; PTC; Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation; Steven and Joan Belkin Foundation; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; The Consolate General of Canada; The Collings Foundation; The Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation; The Red Sox Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation; the Harris A. Berman and Ruth E. Nemzoff Family Foundation; Amy and Joshua Boger; DeMoulas Foundation; Margaret Eagle and Eli Rapaport; Kathleen and Steven Haley; Cerise and Charles Jacobs; Paul L. King; Sylvia and Gene Landy; Jann E. Leeming and Arthur D. Little; Paul F. and Barbara A. Levy; Frank and Eleanor Pao; Spring Sirkin and Arthur Frank; Dorothy and Steven Weber; Nancy Richmond Winsten and Dr. Joseph Winsten; Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood; Ellen and Arnold Zetcher.

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