Rita Rudner — My Life in Dog Years: A Memoir

Saturday, November 12, 7:30 P.M.

Comedian, screenwriter, playwright, actress and best-selling author wittily explains her eventful life journey in her latest book. From a difficult childhood to dancing at age 15 on Broadway to becoming a Johnny Carson favorite to headlining in Las Vegas to motherhood, My Life in Dog Years tells her story through the framework of the dogs she’s had over the years, paying tribute to them.  Now on her fifth dog Betsy, Rudner explains that the one constant in her life has been her dogs, and she has ….”depended on the steady, non-judgmental, immensely -satisfying love that only dogs can bring.”

A house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened as one of the hottest tickets in town in 2000, Rita Rudner is known for her epigrammatic one-liners. Over the course of a multi-year run she became the longest running solo female comedy show in the history of Las Vegas. In 2009 Rudner performed for President Obama at Caesars Palace alongside Bette Midler and Sheryl Crow. Rita has written several screenplays and plays with her producer-director husband Martin Bergman. In 2019 she revisited her dancer roots when she starred in Two’s a Crowd, a musical written by her, Bergman and singer songwriter Jason Feddy that opened at the Laguna Playhouse.

In-person discussion and Q&A with author

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