Mandy Patinkin at the Peace Center
Broadway's master song man, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Paul Ford on piano, will bring his critically acclaimed theater concert to the Peace Center for the Performing Arts' stage at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8.
Tony and Emmy Award-winner Patinkin has an extensive list of theater credits that include Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theater. He won a Tony Award for his 1980 Broadway debut as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and was again nominated in 1984 for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday in the Park With George.
He returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden (1991), and appeared as Marvin in Falsettos (1992).
In 1995, Patinkin won an Emmy Award for his role as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on the critically acclaimed CBS television series, "Chicago Hope." He starred in the acclaimed Showtime Original Series "Dead Like Me" (2003-04) and in the CBS drama "Criminal Minds," which debuted in the fall of 2005.
Patinkin's live performances have received wide critical acclaim. His concert career began 10 years ago at Joseph Papp's Public Theater which coincided with the release of his first solo album Mandy Patinkin. Since then he has toured extensively across the United States and Canada as well as appearing in London, performing songs by such masters as Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin.
Tickets range from $40 to $50. For more information, call (864) 467-3000, (800) 888-7768 or visit www.peacecenter.org.