Paula Poundstone Closes the 2025 Summerfest Season @ CSC

Centenary Stage Company welcomes back comedian Paula Poundstone for one night only as Summerfest 2025, sponsored by Explore Warren, comes to a close this weekend. Known for her smart, observational humor and frequent appearances on NPR, Paula returns following her sold out performance in 2018.

A veteran stand-up comedian, author, and panelist, Poundstone is widely recognized for her long-running role on NPR’s weekly news quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! She also hosts the weekly comedy podcast Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, and has appeared in both television and film, including voicing the character “Forgetter Paula” in Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out and Inside Out 2 ,and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CBS Sunday Morning, and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Poundstone was the first woman to host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and has performed in venues across the United States for over four decades. In addition to her work in comedy, she is the author of multiple books, including There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say and The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness.

Paula Poundstone will be live Saturday, August 23 at 8pm in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center located on the campus of Centenary University in Hackettstown.

Tickets are $35 for balcony seats and $40 for orchestra seating in advance with prices increasing $5 more on the day of the performance.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at 908- 979-0900. The Centenary Stage Company box office is open Monday through Friday from 1-5pm and two hours prior to performances.

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The 2024-25 Season of Performing Arts events at the Centenary Stage Company is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors and grantors like the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the Sandra Kupperman Foundation, the John and Margaret Post Foundation, the CSC corporate sponsors, including Explore Warren, the House of the Good Shepherd, Hackettstown Medical Center Atlantic Health System, Heath Village, Visions Federal Credit Union, and Fulton Bank, and Centenary Stage Company members and supporters.