Tickets on Sale for April 9 Whoopi Goldberg Show at WSU

PULLMAN, Wash. — Tickets are on sale to see An Evening with Whoopi Goldberg as she performs April 9 as part of Washington State University Mom’s Weekend 2005.

The show is set for 8:30 p.m. in Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum. Tickets are $37 and $32 and can be purchased at all TicketsWest outlets, by calling (800) 325-SEAT or online at www.beasley.wsu.edu. The show contains adult content.

Goldberg began performing at age eight in New York with the Children’s Program at the Hudson guild and the Helena Rubinstein Children’s Theatre.

In 1975, she moved to San Diego, where she appeared in the San Diego Repertory Theatre’s productions of Bertold Brecht’s “Mother Courage” and Marsha Norman’s “Getting Out,” and honed her comedic skills as part of an improvisational group called Spontaneous Combustion.

Later, she moved to the San Francisco Bay area and joined the Blake Street Hawkeyes Theatre in Berkeley, partnered with David Schein. Moving shortly into solo performances, Goldberg created “The Spook Show,” which she performed in San Francisco and then toured throughout the United States and Europe.

It was at a 1983 performance of that show, performed at the Dance Theatre Workshop in New York, where Whoopi caught the attention of Mike Nichols, who offered to present her in her own Broadway show. An evening of original material, written and created by Goldberg, the show opened to the Lyceum Theatre to critical acclaim. She later taped the show for the HBO special “Whoopi Goldberg: Direct From Broadway. The record album of her Broadway show won a Grammy Award as Best Comedy Recording of the Year in 1985.
 
For more information on Goldberg, visit https://www.wma.com/0/cta/comedy/roster/ online and click on the “Whoopi Goldberg” link.