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Rosie O'Donnell is coming home, and she has a lot to talk about.
The comedian, actor and former daytime-TV powerhouse will bring her new solo show, Rosie O'Donnell: Common Knowledge, to Off Broadway's Daryl Roth Theatre for a limited 12-performance run beginning July 22. The engagement follows sold-out runs at Dublin's Olympia Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where the deeply personal show earned enthusiastic audiences and strong word-of-mouth.
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For New Yorkers, the hour-long production marks O'Donnell's first new stage show in nearly a decade. It also arrives at a particularly eventful moment in the Emmy winner's life. Written after her move to Ireland, Common Knowledge finds O'Donnell reflecting on everything from her Long Island childhood and the death of her mother to parenthood, politics and the realities of starting over in a new country.
According to the show's description, O'Donnell mixes sharp comedy with candid storytelling, examining what it means to leave the United States, adapt to life in Dublin and raise her youngest child, Clay, while continuing to learn from them along the way. The result is more intimate conversation than stand-up, delivered by someone who's spent decades in the public eye.
"I'm thrilled to be performing in my hometown," O'Donnell said in a statement. "There's no place like New York."
After all, few entertainers are as closely associated with New York as O'Donnell, whose career has spanned film, television, Broadway and activism. Since breaking out in the late 1980s, she's appeared in films including A League of Their Own and Sleepless in Seattle, hosted one of TV's most popular daytime talk shows and remained a prominent cultural voice through decades of changing media landscapes.
With just a dozen performances scheduled between July 22 and August 8, tickets are likely to move quickly. For fans of O'Donnell—or anyone interested in hearing a veteran performer tackle grief, family, reinvention and identity with humor and honesty—it could be one of the more intriguing limited theatrical runs of the summer.
For more information and a full schedule of performances, click here.