Harry Shearer To Take 'Nixon's The One' On The Road To NYC, LA & Philly This Fall

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To celebrate his new series 'Nixon's The One' - which launches October 21 on YouTube - Harry Shearer ('The Simpsons,' 'Spinal Tap,' 'Le Show') will be giving special live Nixon-themed performances in three US cities this fall: New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia (dates below). The events will incorporate video clips from the series; Shearer's behind-the-scenes stories; insights from the thousands of hours of Nixon tapes he and his co-writer, Nixon historian Stanley Kutler, listened to; and an audience Q&A with Shearer.

"I'm looking forward to getting my not-so-secret obsession with the great comic character of the 20th century into the full light of darkened nightclubs," Shearer says. "And, though I’ll take questions, I’ll glare at people who ask me to ‘Do Mr. Burns'. The glare, of course, is me complying."

For the series, Shearer and Kutler combed through thousands of hours of Nixon's legendary secret White House tapes, and re-enacted word for word the best moments as if filmed by a hidden camera. The New Yorker wrote, "It’s hard to think of a more apt way to revisit the tenure of a President whose rise and fall was bound, at every juncture, to recordings of one kind or another."

Shearer will premiere a new episode of ‘Nixon’s The One’ on YouTube every week. During the show's run in Britain on Sky Arts earlier this year, the London Times called 'Nixon's The One' "truly found art...re-enacted with infinite care" and The Guardian declared that it "a half-hour of pure pleasure."

'Nixon's The One' Performance Dates
10/13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Raleigh Studios - Chaplin Theater
10/27 - Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
10/29 - New York, NY @ Slipper Room

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