Press About Betsy

The full "Betsy's Sunday School Bible Classics" (237 pages, NC-17)
will be available for the ipad later this year. Stand by.

Saturday July 31, 2010 8pm (7pm doors)
Santa Monica, CA
LADIES NIGHT OUT
(will be taped for television)
Location:
The Broad Stage
1310 11th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Free parking in theater lot.

Tickets:
VIP: $48 (Orchestra Rows 1-5)
Orchestra: $31
Mezzanine: $25
but $10 off for my friends by calling: 310-452-2525 (visa/mc)
show features Betsy, Gayla Johnson, Jen Kober, Gloria Bigelow

Press About Betsy

Boston Globe

Provocative humor is her preferenceBy Nick A. Zaino III, Globe CorrespondentThere are countless ways to make someone laugh, and Betsy Salkind knows most of them. Want sarcastic wit? Political humor? Or maybe just a good animal mime? Salkind, who on Sunday headlines the Women in Comedy show at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway, can pull all that off and more.Salkind especially ...

Bay Windows

"Betsy Salkind somehow manages to be simultaneously insidious and forthright in her one-woman show titled "Anne Frank Superstar." Salkind is 11-year-old Ethel Spiliotes, who has the great misfortune of being cast as Anne Frank in a new network sitcom about the WWII hideaway and famous diarist.In what starts off as a very polished stand-up routine, Salkind warns that the show ...

Boston Herald

"Equally funny is "Anne Frank Superstar," Salkind's hilarious satire of a television industry that will go to any length for commercial success, even trivializing one of the most famous victims of the holocaust.Salkind imagines what would happen if the story of Anne Frank were to be developed as a sitcom, titled "Let's Be Frank!" Recalling Tracey Ullman in her range, ...

Bay Windows

Is it offensive? While some may feel that to do a satiric show based on Anne Frank may seem offensive, Salkind says that those who have seen the show, which she has performed in numerous West Coast venues, feel differently. “Some who haven’t seen the show have said, ‘No, you can’t make fun of Anne Frank,’ without really knowing what ...

In Newsweekly

"Much sharper focus, intelligence and wit are apparent in "Anne Frank Superstar," in which a 10-year-old girl (Betsy Salkind) is exploited by TV executives for a sitcom (yes, a sitcom) based on Anne Frank's diaries. Salkind, a TV veteran who has written for "Roseanne," aims to expose the banal stupidity of those running the business. When executives become skittish at ...