Comedian Amy Schumer to play Melody Tent; Casey Sherman takes true crime to Boston stage

Comedian/actress Amy Schumer is heading from the Oscars to … Hyannis?

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today (following a presale) for the first major tour that the co-host of Sunday's Academy Awards will have undertaken in four years. And “Whore Tour” will stop Sept. 3 at the Cape Cod Melody Tent.

The Hyannis show is one of 32 dates overall from Aug. 5 to Nov. 20 and one of two dates in Massachusetts, according to a tour schedule Schumer posted on Instagram earlier this week. She’ll also stop at The Wilbur theater in Boston on Aug. 18. For tickets: ticketmaster.com and https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/6209952/amy-schumerwhore-tour-hyannis-cape-cod-melody-tent.

A recent email blast told Melody Tent fans that Schumer’s show is a “cell phone free event” so ticket-buyers agree to put their phones in a locked pouch, and only try to use them by going to a distribution tent, with anyone caught using a phone during the show immediately ejected.

Schumer, an Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated standup comedian, is familiar with the Cape Cod and Islands area. Her husband, Chris Fischer, is an award-winning Martha’s Vineyard chef with family on the island, and the two have been there frequently, including for movie screenings with the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.

In July 2020, the couple debuted a three-part documentary series “Expecting Amy” about her difficult pregnancy (including at an Oak Bluffs drive-in), and she and Fischer also starred together in “Amy Schumer Learns to Cook” on the Food Network.

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Schumer has numerous other credits as comedian, writer, executive producer and author. Among them: her multi-award-winning “Inside Amy Schumer” show on Comedy Central; being the only female comic to headline Madison Square Garden; her new comedy series “Life & Beth” on Hulu; comedy specials “Amy Schumer Growing,” “The Leather Special” and “Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo”; the movies “Trainwreck,” “Snatched,” “Thank You For Your Service,” “The Humans” and “I Feel Pretty”; the Broadway show “Meteor Shower”; the bestselling book “The Girl with The Lower Back Tattoo”; and the podcast, “Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith.”

Van Sciver debuts at Lincoln Center

Cape native actor Han Van Sciver made a Lincoln Center Theater debut this week with the world premiere of Bryna Turner's “At the Wedding,” which runs through April 17 at LCT3's Claire Tow Theater Off-Broadway.

The show stars Mary Wiseman (Broadway’s “Thérèse Raquin,” “Star Trek: Discovery” on Paramount+) as Carlo, described as a “heartbroken lesbian” who attends her ex-girlfriend's heterosexual wedding.

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The cast also includes Jorge Donoso, Rebecca S’manga Frank, Keren Lugo, Carolyn McCormick, Will Rogers, and Van Sciver — who has performed at several Cape theaters while growing up here and since living in Philadelphia, including Cotuit Center for the Arts and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.

Casey Sherman, Dave Wedge to turn crime books into stage show

Best-selling true crime authors Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge are bringing some of the top stories from their books and podcast to Boston’s Wilbur theater on April 20, with Cape actors among those acting out the stories.

What is described as a live, immersive, multi-sensory storytelling experience, will star co-authors Sherman, a Barnstable High alum, and Wedge and feature an ensemble cast to perform “explosive scenes” from their true crime thrillers and “Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers” podcast.

Books covered will include “Search for the Strangler: My Hunt for Boston’s Most Notorious Killer”; “Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss; “Bad Blood: Freedom & Death in the White Mountains”; and “The Last Days of John Lennon,” written with James Patterson.

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“The Boston theater scene has never experienced a show as intense as this one,” said Sherman and Wedge in announcing the show. “We’re bringing Whitey Bulger, Albert DeSalvo, and even the great John Lennon to the stage. We’re taking the audience on a thrill ride through our deep investigations into some of the most notorious crimes in American history.”

Cape actors involved, according to the announcement, will be Mike Southworth and Christine Mone from Mashpee; Kevin Lasit from Sandwich; and Callalilly Finglas, Stephen Lattimer and Keith Rosary from Hyannis.

Other actors, many of whom have had roles in movies filmed around Massachusetts (including ones based on Sherman and Wedge books), will include Patty O’Neil, David Pridemore, Alison Wachtler and Gary Tanguay. The live performance will be directed by Ian Barrett and co-produced by Kris Meyer.

Tickets: $30, or $52 to add a VIP meet-and-greet with Sherman and Wedge; https://thewilbur.com/artist/saints-sinners-serial-killers/

Contact Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll at kdriscoll@capecodonline.com. Follow on Twitter: @KathiSDCCT.

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