Off-Broadway Hit “Mother Load” Opens at Theater 4301

(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway show Mother Load from Jan. 22-25 at Theater 4301 in downtown Scottsdale.

Single tickets are available for $38 through the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ Web site at http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/ or the box office at (480) 994-ARTS (2787).

Written by Amy Wilson and starring Betsy Stover, Mother Load mixes comedy with true confessions from the front lines of motherhood. Based on Wilson’s own experience as the mother of three children under five, this one-woman show has audiences lining up from coast to coast for a night of laughs about everything from prenatal yoga and preschool applications to organic baby food and the perils of “mommy and me” classes. This laugh-out-loud show is a wickedly funny exposé of the fruitless and ever-challenging quest to be the “perfect” mom.

Critics have described Mother Load as “flawless,” “hysterical” and “a must-see,” and The New York Times noted, “It’s like Annie Hall wearing a nursing bra!”

Mother Load creator Amy Wilson appeared on television as a series regular on the sitcoms Norm (ABC) with Norm MacDonald, and Daddio (NBC) with Michael Chiklis and had a recurring role on Felicity. She has also appeared on Ed, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Deadline, Boston Common and All My Children. Her film credits include Kinsey, Kissing Jessica Stein, Keeping the Faith and Ira and Abby, and she also performed on Broadway in the Tony-Award-winning play The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Wilson is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University.

Actress and comedian Betsy Stover grew up in Minneapolis, Minn., the child of a Lutheran minister and an opera singer, and attended New York University and studied at Tisch’s Playwrights Horizons Theater School. She has starred in numerous radio and television commercials and is a regular sketch performer on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Stover has also appeared on MTV, VH1, Comedy Central and at Caroline’s Comedy Club on Broadway. A longtime member of New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, she has written, performed and directed countless sketch and improv comedy shows over the last decade and taught improv comedy there for the past seven years.

LOCATION AND PARKING
Theater 4301 is located in the Galleria Corporate Centre at 4301 Scottsdale Road on the corner of Drinkwater Boulevard and Fifth Avenue in downtown Scottsdale, one block east of Scottsdale Road. Free parking is available in the Galleria Corporate Centre parking garage.

ACCESSIBILITY
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers performance accommodations to enhance audience members’ experience, including: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation or live audio description with two weeks advance notice. Assisted listening devices and wheelchair seating are always available. Visit the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ Web site at http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/ or contact the box office at (480) 994-ARTS [TDD: (480) 874-4694] for further details. Please inquire about services when ordering tickets.

GROUP DISCOUNTS
A $3 discount per ticket is available for groups of 15 or more (subject to restriction and limitation). Call (480) 874-4690 for more information.

STUDENT DISCOUNTS
Students with valid student identification may purchase half-price tickets (subject to availability; limit one per student) 72 hours before any performance at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts box office. Tickets must be purchased in-person; phone orders are not accepted.

SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Opened in 1975, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts presents a dynamic, culturally diverse season of dance, jazz, classical and world music, theater and satire. Approximately 1,000 performances, educational programs, festivals and other events are showcased annually serving more than 300,000 people and contributing substantially to Scottsdale’s high quality of life and vibrant arts scene. Performances take place in the Center’s 838-seat Virginia G. Piper Theater (closed for renovation during the 2008-09 season) and 136-seat Stage 2 as well as the 2,200-seat amphitheater on the grounds of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall and the 326-seat Theater 4301 in the Galleria Corporate Centre. The Center’s youth education and outreach programs reach more than 40,000 school children each year, and its free programs are available to the entire public. Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts also produces the popular Scottsdale Arts Festival every March; Sunday A’Fair, a series of free outdoor music festivals held on Sunday afternoons from January to April; and Native Trails, a collaboration with the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau that features free demonstrations of Native American arts and culture from January to April. Open daily and during performances, The Store @ Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers hand-crafted jewelry, accessories for the home, toys for imaginative young minds, recordings, books, greeting cards and more.

The Scottsdale Cultural Council, a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is contracted by the City of Scottsdale, Arizona, to administer certain City arts and cultural projects and to manage the City-owned Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Scottsdale Public Art Program. The programs of the Scottsdale Cultural Council are made possible, in part, by the support of members and donors and grants received from the Arizona Commission on the Arts through appropriations from the Arizona State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

HOW TO REACH US
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
7380 East Second Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Box Office: (480) 994-ARTS (2787)
TDD: (480) 874-4694
Web: http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/
E-mail: info@sccarts.org
Fax: (480) 874-4699

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