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2010 CANADA DATES
TORONTO
April 30-May 2, 2010
May 30-31 NEW SHOWS
Massey Hall
TICKETMASTER

(Tix go on sale March 20)
WINNIPEG
May 10, 2010
Burton Cummings Theatre
TICKETMASTER

(Tix go on sale March 15)
REGINA
May 12, 2010
Conexus Arts Centre
BOXOFFICE

(Tix go on sale March 15)
CALGARY
May 14, 2010
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
TICKETMASTER

(Tix go on sale March 15)
EDMONTON
May 17, 2010
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
TICKETMASTER

(Tix go on sale March 15)
VICTORIA
May 20, 2010
Royal Theatre
TICKET INFO

(Tix go on sale March15)
VANCOUVER
May 21-22, 2010
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
TICKETMASTER

(Tix go on sale March15)
MONTREAL
May 25, 2010
THEATRE ST-DENIS 1
TICKETPRO

OTTAWA
May 28, 2010
National Arts Centre Southam Hall
TICKETMASTER
Internet Presale Password – BEES

2010 US DATES
CHICAGO
Jan 8, 2010
United Center
TICKETMASTER
ST. LOUIS
Jan 9, 2010
Fox Theatre
METROTIX
BOSTON
Jan 12, 2010
TD Garden
TICKETMASTER
SAN FRANCISCO
Jan 14, 2010
Oracle Arena
TICKETMASTER
NEW YORK CITY
Jan 16, 2010
Madison Square Garden
TICKETMASTER
DALLAS, TX
Jan 21, 2010
American Airlines Center
TICKETMASTER
LOS ANGELES
Jan 29-30, 2010
Nokia Theatre
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2009 UK/EUROPEAN DATES
* Warm up gigs in yellow boxes
CORNWALL
Nov 11, 2008
Hall for Cornwall
Box office on 01872 262466 or www.hallforcornwall.co.uk
PORTHCAWL
Nov 12, 2008
The Grand Pavillion
Box office: 01656 7869960
MONMOUTH
Nov 13, 2008
The Blake Theatre
Box office: 1600 719401
LUDLOW
Nov 14, 2008
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
SOLD OUT
More info
BEXHILL
Nov 16, 2008
De La Warr Pavillion
TICKETS
LONDON
Nov 17 - Dec 12, 2008
Dec 17th-23rd
The Lyric Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue
TICKETS
LONDON
April 26, 2009
Pleasance Islington
Box office to book tickets 020 7609 1800
LANCASTER
May 26, 2009
Grand Theatre
box office at 01524 64695 or www.lancastergrand.co.uk
BURNLEY
May 27, 2009
Burnley Mechanics
Box Office: 01282 664400 Online: www.burnleymechanics.co.uk
Thursday 28th May 09
Harrogate Theatre 10.30pm
Box office: 01423 502116
www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk
Tickets on sale 2pm 22nd May
Friday 29th May 09
Worcester Huntingdon Hall 10pm
Box office: 01905 611427
www.worcesterlive.co.uk
Tickets on sale 2pm 22nd May
 

October 2009
23rdNottingham Trent FM Arena Book online
24thNottingham Trent FM Arena Book online
25thSheffield Sheffield Arena Book online
29thNewcastle Metro Radio Arena Book online
30thNewcastle Metro Radio Arena Book online
31stLiverpool Echo Arena Book online
November 2009
1stLiverpool Echo Arena Book online
4thAberdeen Aberdeen AECC Arena Book online
6thCardiff Cardiff International Arena Book online
7thManchester MEN Arena Book online
8thManchester MEN Arena Book online
10thGlasgow SECC Book online
11thGlasgow SECC Book online
17thBirmingham NIA Book online
18thBirmingham NIA Book online
19thCardiff Cardiff International Arena Book online
20thCardiff Cardiff International Arena Book online
22ndBournemouth BIC Book online
23rdBournemouth BIC Book online
26thEastbourne Devonshire Park Theatre Book online
27thBrighton Brighton Centre Book online
28thBrighton Brighton Centre Book online
29thBrighton Brighton Centre Book online
30thBrighton Brighton Centre Book online
December 2009
3rdLondon The O2 Arena Book online
4thLondon Wembley Arena Book online
5thLondon Wembley Arena Book online
6thLondon Wembley Arena Book online
7thLondon The O2 Arena Book online
12thBelfast Odyssey Arena Book online
14thDublin The O2 Dublin Book online
18thMalmö/Copenhagen Malmö Arena Book online
19thStockholm Hovet Book online
20thGothenburg Scandinavium Book online
21stOslo Spektrum Book online

 

2008 UK DATES
* Warm up gigs in yellow boxes

*CORNWALL
Nov 11, 2008
Hall for Cornwall
Box office on 01872 262466 or www.hallforcornwall.co.uk
*PORTHCAWL
Nov 12, 2008
The Grand Pavillion
Box office: 01656 7869960
*MONMOUTH
Nov 13, 2008
The Blake Theatre
Box office: 1600 719401
*LUDLOW
Nov 14, 2008
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
SOLD OUT
More info
*BEXHILL
Nov 16, 2008
De La Warr Pavillion
TICKETS
LONDON
Nov 17 - Dec 12, 2008
Dec 17th-23rd
The Lyric Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue
TICKETS

 

2008 US WARM UP DATES

*Santa Fe, NM
April 3-4, 2008
Lensic Performing Arts Center
*Providence, RI
VMA Arts & Cultural Center
April 15, 2008
*Louisville, KY
Kentucky Center
April 17, 2008

 

2008 US TOUR DATES

BOSTON
April 28 - 30
Orpheum Theatre
ticketmaster.com
617-931-2000
WASHINGTON DC
MAY 1& 2
Constitution Hall
ticketmaster.com
202-397-7328
PHILADELPHIA
May 5 - 7
Academy of Music
kimmelcenter.org
215-731-3333
CINCINNATI
May 9
Taft Theatre
ticketmaster.com
513-562-4949
INDIANAPOLIS
May 10
Murat Centre
ticketmaster.com
317-239-5151
COLUMBUS
May 13
Palace Theatre
ticketmaster.com
614-431-3600
CHICAGO
May 15-17
Chicago Theatre
ticketmaster.com
312-902-1500
DETROIT
May 20
The Opera House
ticketmaster.com
248-645-6666
PITTSBURGH
May 21 & 22
Benedum Center
pgharts.com
412-456-6666
CLEVELAND
May 23 & 24
Playhouse Square
playhousesq.org
216-241-6000
MINNEAPOLIS
May 27 & 28
State Theatre
ticketmaster.com
612-673-0404
ST. LOUIS
May 30
Orpheum Theatre
ticketmaster.com
314-421-4400
KANSAS CITY
May 31
Uptown Theater
ticketmaster.com
816-931-3330
MEMPHIS
June 3
Orpheum Theatre
ticketmaster.com
901-743-2787
DALLAS
June 5
The Majestic
ticketmaster.com
214-373-8000
AUSTIN
June 6 - 8
The Paramount
gettix.net
866-443-8849
HOUSTON
June 10 & 11
Jones Hall
spahouston.org
713-227-4772
MIAMI
June 13 & 14
Gleason Theatre
ticketmaster.com
305-358-5885
TAMPA
June 17 & 18
Tampa Theatre
ticketmaster.com
813-287-8844
NASHVILLE
June 20
Ryman auditorium
ticketmaster.com
615-255-9600
ATLANTA
June 24 & 25
Cobb Centre
ticketmaster.com
404-249-6400
NEW YORK CITY
June 27-29
Radio City M' Hall
radiocity.com
212-307-4111
SEATTLE
July 11 & 12
The Paramount
ticketmaster.com
206-628-0888
PORTLAND
July 15
Keller Auditorium
ticketmaster.com
503-224-4400
SAN FRANCISCO
July 17 - 19
Orpheum Theatre
ticketmaster.com
415-512-7770
PHOENIX
July 22 & 23
Orpheum Theatre
ticketmaster.com
480-784-4444
LAS VEGAS
July 26
Pearl Theater
ticketmaster.com
702-474-4000
DENVER
July 29 & 30
The Paramount
tickethorse.com
866-461-6556
SAN DIEGO
August 1 & 2
Spreckels Theatre
ticketmaster.com
619-220-8497

LOS ANGELES
August 5 - 9*
Kodak Theatre
ticketmaster.com
213-480-3232

* Tickets will go on-sale for the added shows on May 18 at 10 AM. $69/$59/$39

UK REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS

UK NEWSPAPERS
(updated 05.27.09)
UK BLOGS/PHOTOS (updated 12.17.08)
 

Newspaper Review (thanks Drilling Cat!)

Wales:

Eddie Izzard
Blake Theatre, Monmouth 3:02pm Monday
17th November 2008
By Maria Williams | SouthWalesArgus.co.uk

THE self-styled action transvestite was off duty as a bearded Eddie Izzard stalked onto the stage in jeans and a tailcoat. Fresh from Hollywood success, Izzard was back to his stand-up roots with his Strict Tour, which is soon set to transfer to London’s West End. He was on great stream-of- consciousness form at his sell-out show in Monmouth. His set was littered with characters such as Noah and his wife Margaret, cannabis-smoking assassins, the traumatised squirrel and a jazz chicken. The crowd was watching a master stand-up comic at the peak of his talent, not even being thrown when logging on to Wikipedia with his 3G phone to look up Symonds Yat to discover that the man who wrote the web entry was in the audience. Izzard’s scenes were big – religion, science and why we are all here, but he never veered into preachy agit prop – Izzard’s world of the absurd was enough to seduce any crowd to his ideas. Beneath it all, there was a streak of humanism a mile wide in his thoughts. Little wonder he left the stage to such rapturous applause.

Cornwall:
Eddie Izzard Wows the Hall for Cornwall
Review by Lee Trewhela

WHAT a thrill for a comedian of Eddie Izzard's stature to be playing Truro – and he didn't disappoint.

Although, his rambling, largely ad-libbed socio-political fop on acid schtick can lead to as many troughs as peaks.

Eddie chose to play in Cornwall as an old friend, Catherine Bicknell, who lives in Feock and happens to be a colleague of mine, suggested it. Simple as that.

Along with a few other low-key warm-up gigs across the country, this was a try-out for his stand-up show Stripped which starts a run in the West End soon and has already toured America.

No laughing at the minutiae of day-to-day life for Eddie, this was a look at the big themes – basically, that there is no God.

So we went from Noah, dinosaurs and the Stone Age, through to the Greeks and Romans.

Eddie questioned the presence of an omnipotent power with the help of a squirrel who seemed to have come from The Bronx and Charles Darwin's well-known theory of evolution, Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, YOU!

His previous look at gender politics was missing – there was one brief mention of his transvestism but he was dressed more like an ageing yet sexy rock star than Marilyn Monroe.

There were highs – an exaggerated study of tennis players' pornographic grunts and groans was tear-inducingly hilarious.

But there were also dips where his surreal ramblings didn't quite hit the mark, especially a plain bizarre encore about the moon. But when you consider that the majority of the two-hour performance is ad-libbed then we can do nothing but bow down to Eddie's astonishing talent.

It was all very entertaining and the audience was in rapture (especially at his recurring theme of mining tin, surfing on tin, tin hats etc etc). Let's hope his sell-out appearance leads to other big-name shows at the Hall.

Eddie told me before the show that he was seriously considering entering European politics, and with his strong socialist views and sheer charisma it wouldn't be beyond the realms of imagination to one day see him as president of the continent. A rambling fop of a president, mind.

 

US REVIEWS

New York:
" There are no words to describe Eddie Izzard's performance last night (Sunday, June 29) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City -- except for his words, which I can't reproduce here, because there were so many of them, delivered so precisely, so hysterically, that it boggled the mind. Plus, you really have to hear him say them, and watch his incredibly mobile features and his incredibly mischievous eyes as he speaks them. And his body language. That's a language that stands on its own. Imitating the Rockettes. And monkeys. And dinosaurs, and out-of-breath Roman messengers who had trouble with their Latin declensions and tenses and couldn't find the right words to tell the battle commander that Hannibal was on his way through the Alps to attack them. . . . with elephants . . . that look like big pigs with squirrels draped over their faces. When it was over, two solid hours after it started, with no intermission, with Eddie talking consistently at 500 mph and never missing a beat, I was exhausted. But HE had the energy at the curtain call, after the encore, to run up 2.5 flights of stairs on the left side of the hall to take a bow from a balcony, run back down and across the stage, and then up 2.5 flights of stairs on the right side of the hall for another bow, and down back to the stage. The show was beyond brilliant. If you live in the US, find a way to see him -- he'll be out West for July and early August. " -- Peggie

Indianpolis:
"It started with a roar and the audience lept to it's feet. Really a roar. I was surprised and I was there. Eddie came out and bowed and the roar went up again. He said "you know after a welcome like that it's like AHHHH1" After that the whole thing went of really well. At one point he made a bad pun and the whole audience groaned, Eddie froze and flipped us a slow circular bird then went back to the show. Outside, there was a line waiting for him that reached from the entrance to the back door. I didn't get to stay but as usual Eddie kills. " -- Joy

NEWSPAPERSBLOGS

 

INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES

EDDIE IZZARD - IZZARD PLANS GERMAN STAND-UP SHOW

British funnyman EDDIE IZZARD is planning another historic stand-up gig in mainland Europe with a Berlin show completely in German. The bilingual comic has already won acclaim for performing an all-French gig in Paris, France - he's now planning another trip to Europe and this time he will be brushing up on his German. Izzard, who plays a German officer in Tom Cruise's new movie Valkyrie, tells WENN, "They say the Germans have no sense of humour and I'm going to prove them wrong by doing gigs in Berlin. "I've been planning this for some time; in another two years. It'll be at the Quatsch Comedy Club in Berlin. I talked to them five years ago about doing it but I have to do Paris first in French, which I've already done, and then stand-up in German in Berlin."

THE CRAZY BRAIN OF EDDIE IZZARD
Lovingly scanned by the crazy brain of Amy. Click for larger views.

   

 

NEWS

Eddie’s back with his BIG INTIMACY TOUR – STRIPPED TOO. After selling out Wembley Stadium and 17 other arenas in England & Europe Eddie’s bringing his expanded, updated and new arena format show to ORACLE Arena in Oakland for 1 night only. Don’t miss your only chance to see Eddie Live in the Bay Area in STRIPPED TOO, The Big Intimacy Tour.

Event Information:
Saturday, January 23 @ 8:00 pm
ORACLE Arena, Oakland

Exclusive Pre-Sale:
Begins: Monday, September 14 at 10:00 am
Ends: Saturday, September 19 at 10:00 pm

General Public On-Sale:
Sunday, September 20 @ 10 am

Password: Izzard

Tickets: $52.50, $78.75 and $81.75*
* Prices include 5% facility fee. Additional service charges may apply. Limit 6 tickets per order, subject to availability & prior sale, cannot be combined with any other offers.

TICKETS HERE:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C004321140A6F9F

FROM TWITTER
- Anymore gigs in Sweden? - Yes. Stockholm and Gothenburg. Also Oslo in Norway.
- Where do I get tickets? Can't find anything on your website - Tickets for Sweden, Norway & Malmo/Denmark not available yet


EDDIE PLANS 'STRIPPED' ARENA TOUR
Eddie Izzard will be returning to the UK for an arena tour of his hit show Stripped this winter. Izzard took the tour around the USA last year, receiving rave reviews. This was followed by a sell-out run at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End. He will now be taking the show to a wider UK audience beginning with two nights at the Trent FM Arena, Nottingham on October 23rd-24th. He will then call at Sheffield, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bournemouth and Brighton. The tour concludes at the beginning of December with three nights in London - one night at The O2 Arena, followed by two nights at Wembley Arena. Tickets for all shows are on sale from 10:00am, this Saturday 31st January and will be available here. (From Ents24.com)


WARMUP GIG
Eddie Izzard will play a rare warm-up for his forthcoming West End run at the Hall for Cornwall at 8pm on Tuesday, November 11. Tickets go on sale on Friday and are £30 each plus 85p Theatre Fund payment from the box office on 01872 262466 or www.hallforcornwall.co.uk


Following his sell-out tour across 34 cities in the US, Eddie Izzard returns to London's West End with 23 performances of 'Stripped' at The Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.

Eddie is keen to ensure that all members of the site are given priority booking, consequently the fans have an exclusive booking period from Wed 1st Oct at 10pm to buy tickets before they go on general release on Thursday 2nd Oct at 10pm.

These exclusive tickets are available through THIS LINK and will be limited to a maximum of 8 per person.

The Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
Nov 17th - Dec 12th 08
No performance Sundays


NEW ORLEANS BENEFIT
Eddie Izzard, an adventurous standup comedian as well as star of the FX drama "The Riches," will perform a benefit concert at 7:30 p.m. June 23 at Tulane University's McAlister Auditorium. The show is a late addition to Izzard's summer-long "Stripped" tour of America, which has been winning rave reviews wherever it's played so far. Proceeds will go to Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans. Tickets go on sale Sat, 06/07/08 10:00 AM CDT via Ticketmaster, (504) 522-5555 or www.ticketmaster.com.

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans -- which helps low- and moderate-income New Orleanians become home owners -- will be the recipient of 100 percent of the proceeds, and Ticketmaster has agreed to donate a portion of its ticket fees to the organization as well. There will be a special reception with Izzard after the show for "Producer Circle" ticket holders.


From Pittsburgh: Eddie said he won't be doing meet and greets anymore just Q&A's after the shows.

"Oh, and since I was the person who asked about merch at the beginning of the tour, I should add that there are child-sized t-shirts that say "Covered in Bees", if you have Eddie-loving hipster children in your life. They're red with black old-fashioned lettering and, of course, bees. They were selling for $20." -- Minneapolis (thanks Annette)

They're selling several styles of T-shirts specifically for the Stripped tour, as well as classics like "Covered in Bees", "Cake or Death?" and a "Glorious" T-shirt. They had dogtags and keychains, two 8x10 photos, previous tour DVD's, and a very nice program. T-shirts ranged from $25-35, while the photos were $5 each and the programs were $15. (thanks Annette and LiveJournal)

 

 

LINKS

 

VIDEOS

Seattle Q&A: PART 1 | PART 2 (thanks Janelle)

Atlanta Q&A: PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3

LITTLE STAR | THE PURPLE HIPPO

Austin Q&A: PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3

Boston: PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5

 

Q&A
Chicago, IL

Eddie Izzard - Jesus, Paul, Saul & Moses
Boston, MA Show

Eddie Izzard - The Hashish/Assassin Connection
Providence, RI Show

Eddie Izzard - Giraffe Charades
Providence, RI Show

 

 


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