Upcoming Educational Programs

A Master Class with Two-time Tony Award Winner Christine Ebersole

Join Broadway in Worcester and Christine Ebersole for a special free master class for students and arts educators. The master class will be followed by a Q&A session with Christine. Christine is best known for her work on from Broadway (42nd Street, Grey Gardens, War Paint), television (Saturday Night Live, Bob Hearts Abishola) and the movies (Amadeus, Tootsie, The Wolf of Wall Street, Licorice Pizza).

All students and arts educators are welcome to participate.

Date: December 11, 2024

Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, the program will start promptly at 10:30 am.

Location: Jean McDonough Arts Center, Brickbox Theater, 20 Franklin Street, Worcester, MA

Free for all students and their arts educators.

Registration is required.

Supported by the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, Fletcher Foundation, and UniBank.

Don’t miss Christine (with Billy Stritch live in concert at the Worcester’s intimate BrickBox Theater.

December 11, 2024 at 7:00 pm at the Jean McDonough Arts Center, 20 Franklin Street, Worcester, MA. Special student discount tickets available for $25 with code Student25. Please bring your student ID with you to the concert.

More information and tickets.

About Christine Ebersole

Christine Ebersole has recently completed the fifth and final season playing Dottie on Chuck Lorre's hit sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola for CBS. This past summer, she starred in the Transport Group's concert version of Follies at Carnegie Hall. Christine most recently appeared on Broadway in War Paint in her Tony® nominated role as Elizabeth Arden, opposite fellow Tony® nominee Patti LuPone as Helena Rubinstein. She won her second Tony Award® for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, as well as virtually every Off-Broadway award, for her “dual role of a lifetime” as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens.  She also recently starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar nominated film Licorice Pizza as Lucille Dolittle, based on Lucille Ball. In 2018 she made her LA Opera debut as the Old Lady in Francesca Zambello's production of Candide conducted by James Conlon. 

Her extensive Broadway career also includes her Tony Award®-winning performance as Dorothy Brock in the hit revival of 42nd Street, in addition to leading roles in On the Twentieth Century, Oklahoma, Camelot, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Steel Magnolias, the revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, and Dinner at Eight for which she received both Tony® and Drama Desk Award Nominations. She received an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads.  Concert appearances include the concert version of the opera The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony’s tribute to Leonard Bernstein, the Boston Pops’ concert version of A Little Night Music, and PBS concerts Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty

In addition to her acclaimed stage career, Christine has also appeared in numerous hit films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, Amadeus, Tootsie, Richie Rich, Black Sheep, Steven Universe and The Big Wedding in which she also composed and performed the song "Gently Down The Stream".  Her television career began as a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live alongside Eddie Murphy.  She also played Tessitura in Gypsy with Bette Midler and has appeared on Pose, Madam Secretary, Blue Bloods, American Horror Story, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Search Party, Will & Grace, Murphy Brown, and The Colbert Report.

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