With the success and never-ending debates about her 2018 show Nanette behind her, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby is ready to go on tour with a brand-new show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gadsby will embark on her first-ever U.S. tour this year to perform her new show, which will follow a previously announced (and sold-out) residency at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles. The new show, Douglas, is named after her very adorable dog:
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Gadsby said the show is, in part, inspired by the response to Nanette. “I’m deeply unsettled by the amount of positive attention that I’m getting; the negative attention, I’m well-learned in handling that! It doesn’t really upset me that I [received] a bit of hostility — because I know how to handle that,†she said. “I thought it was interesting for me and I’ve been thinking a lot about how does one who is well-practiced in the art of negative attention deal with a sudden influx of positive attention? The show is around my inability to wrangle positive attention.â€
Here are the full list of tour dates that have been announced so far:
March 27 – April 7: Melbourne, Australia – Arts Centre MelbourneÂ
April 30: San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine ArtsÂ
May 10: San Diego, CA – Balboa TheatreÂ
May 15: Portland, OR – Newmark TheatreÂ
May 22: Denver, CO – Paramount TheatreÂ
May 30: Austin, TX – Paramount TheatreÂ
June 2: Houston, TX – Jones Hall for the Performing ArtsÂ
June 8: Seattle, WA – Moore TheatreÂ
June 13: Minneapolis, MN – Pantages TheatreÂ
June 16: Chicago, IL – Chicago TheaterÂ
June 23: Philadelphia, PA – Merriam TheaterÂ
June 25: Washington, DC – Kennedy CenterÂ
June 29: Nashville, TN – James K Polk TheaterÂ
July 12: Los Angeles, CA – Theatre at The Ace Hotel
Tickets for the show will be available on Gadsby’s website this Friday. While it sounds like Douglas might not be as controversial to comedians as Nanette — Gadsby says “the humor will be back in†— we can probably count on more debates from it: “After what I did with Nanette, I’m not going backwards; I’m going to keep pushing forwards — and probably upsetting some comedy purists again. We can’t please everyone!â€