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Chris Rock, a Grammy and Emmy Award winning comedian, actor, director, writer and producer, who remains one of the top comedians of our time, is coming to the Fox Theatre for two shows next spring.
In his first tour in more than nine years, Rock kicks off the "Total Blackout Tour 2017" on Feb. 14 in Durham, N.C. He's scheduled to perform on April 28 and 29 (a Friday and Saturday) at 8 p.m. on the dowmtown stage, Olympia Entertainment announces.
Vinson Cunningham writes this about Chris Rock in March in the New Yorker:
Standup comedy has made an all-but-accomplished journey in America from chintzy entertainment to legitimately shocking outsider art to, now, and perhaps finally, a kind of popular cultural criticism—a development helped along to a great degree by Rock himself. Today’s comic sometimes sounds like a funnier Joe Klein or George Will, tasked with captivating an audience, sure, but also with articulating, and arguing on behalf of, a coherent world view.
You're likely to hear commentary about Donald Trump's presidency.
Tickets ($49.50, $69.50 and $125) go on sale Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. at OlympiaEntertainment.com, LiveNation.com, The Fox and Joe Louis Arena box offices, Hockeytown Authentics in Troy (without service charge) at Ticketmaster.com. To charge by phone, call (800) 745-3000. For additional information, call (313) 471-6611.
