SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — “An Evening with Joan Rivers” will be presented at the Balboa Theatre downtown on Saturday, January 15 at 8 p.m.
Considered one of the hardest-working celebrities in the world, she’s an internationally renowned comedienne, Emmy-winning television talk show host, Tony®-nominated actress, best-selling author, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, columnist, lecturer, syndicated radio host, jewelry designer and cosmetic company entrepreneur, red carpet fashion laureate, businesswoman — and most importantly, a proud mother and grandmother.
Joan Rivers is a true pioneer: she created her own brand of irreverent, unconventional comedy and forged her remarkable rise to stardom in the entertainment world. Enduring humiliation and deprivation for nearly a decade playing tawdry clubs, Borscht Belt hotels, and Greenwich Village cabarets, her career skyrocketed in 1968 when she appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Within three years she was hosting That Show with Joan Rivers, one of the first syndicated daytime shows. She soon made television history as the first solo guest host of The Tonight Show.
Her own The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers helped launch the Fox Network in 1986. In 1989, she returned to daytime television with The Joan Rivers Show, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host and her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Joan Rivers has enjoyed an illustrious career spanning more than four decades in the entertainment industry and beyond she’s as robust and hard-working as ever. Joan’s unique gifts of humor, compassion, and tenacity have enabled her to triumph over personal tragedy and attain extraordinary professional success.
Joan Rivers, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, plans an evening of stories and humorous observations of people and her world live from the stage at the historic Balboa Theatre.
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Preceding provided by San Diego Theatres
Tickets can be purchased online at: http://www.sandiegotheatres.org/eventstickets/eventdetails.cfm?eventID=2259;
at the San Diego Civic Theatre ticket office or by calling 570-1100 (619/760/858 area codes). For more information, visit: www.SDBalboa.org