Season 41: Betty Buckley @ The Strand Theatre

Betty Buckley is a legendary, multi-award winning actress/singer whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world.  She is a 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee and the 2017 recipient of the Julie Harris Awards from The Actor’s Fund for Artistic Achievement and received The Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Songbook Association in 2023.She won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats and received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in Triumph of Love.  She received an Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway. Ms. Buckley is featured in the film, By Design, written and directed by Amanda Kramer which made it’s debut at The Sundance Film Festival in January 2025.  She is also featured in the film Eternity for A24 Studios starring Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen to be released in the Fall of 2025.  In March 2024, she co-starred in Imaginary for Blumhouse Productions and released by Lionsgate.  She co-starred with James McAvoy in the M. Night Shyamalan hit film Split, one of the top International box office hits of 2017.  She received a Saturn Award Nomination for Best Featured Actress for her work in the film. Her other films include her debut in Brian de Palma’s screen version of Stephen King’s Carrie, Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski’s Frantic, Woody Allen’s Another Woman, Lawrence Kasden’s Wyatt Earp and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. In 2024, The Mayfly, an animated short film written, produced and narrated by Ms. Buckley played the film festival circuit and won several awards including Best of Festival, Best Director and Best 2D Character Based Animation at The Los Angeles Animation Festival.  The film also won Best Animation at The Lady Filmmakers Festival in Los Angeles. A love letter to New York City and music, The Mayfly is a lyrical tale that was inspired by a true event at the Café Carlyle.

$95.19, $74.27, $55.44,  Student $37.66  (includes fees & local sales tax)

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Public on sale date: Monday, July 21st at 11:00 AM