THEATRE + COMEDY

Don’t miss master comedians and original cast members Joe Sears and Jaston Williams as A Tuna Christmas returns to Galveston’s Grand 1894 Opera House for two weeks December 13th-23rd. Performance times for this side-splitting comedy are 8pm Monday - Friday, 2pm and 8pm on Saturdays, and 2pm and 7pm on Sundays. Sears and Williams, with their deft comedic timing, trademark characterizations, and instant costume changes, portray all 24 denizens of Texas’ mythical third-smallest town, Tuna, as they attempt to cope with the traumas and dramas of the holidays!

Best described as a “longhorn version of ‘A Night Before Christmas’,” A Tuna Christmas tells a seasonal story of those beloved Texans: Didi Snavely (who runs the used gun shop); her husband, R.R. (who sees UFO’s as his rescue from marriage); Aunt Pearl (who poisons poodles trespassing on her yard); and all their neighbors. They are all on a rampage because a “phantom” is destroying holiday displays before the annual prizes are awarded, they’re battling a bad economy, and a local production of “A Christmas Carol” is endangered by bad actors and a Scrooge-ish electric company.

Critics have raved: “The show is a hoot, and the cast is two hoots,” proclaims The New York Times. “This show is so funny. It’s far too good just for Christmas,” states the New York Post. “If you like someone buy them roses…if you love someone, buy them tickets to A Tuna Christmas!” exclaims the Austin American-Statesman.

Fill your holiday stockings with plenty of laughter as the citizens of Tuna, Texas come home for Christmas at The Grand!