My new show will make it's World Premiere at the 2023 United Solo Festival on March 11

It's about time for another live show - this one at a great Off-Broadway Theater on 42nd street

So I’ve had an idea for a show that has been bouncing around in my head lately. I noticed this year’s United Solo Festival was taking submissions, so I sent mine in. They invited me to the festival, gave me a nice Saturday night date, and then I thought “oh, boy, now I HAVE TO do it.” I’m very excited and thrilled, and if you can make it into NYC and are up for it, I hope you’ll come. It’s a pretty simple show- as usual, It’s just telling stories!

Here is a link to the show page. You will see a link for tickets which will be available on or around Friday. The show will probably sell out right away so if you’d like to go to this performance, put your email in the box and you will be notified first, and you can grab your tickets. I’ll also do a mailing when they go on sale as well.

Tickets: Tom Shillue in the World Premiere of Spontaneous Combustion

Here’s how United Solo describes the show:

We all tell stories about our life. But did you ever get used to telling a story a certain way, and then come across some surprising new information that changes the ending?
In his solo shows Impossible at the Edinburg Fringe, and Supernormal at PS 122, and in his book Mean Dads for a Better America, Tom told funny stories about his childhood growing up in Massachusetts and his disciplinarian “Mean Dad.” In his newest show Spontaneous Combustion, Tom adds depth and insight into these funny stories while solving some long-hidden family mysteries.

After her death in the spring of 2022, Tom was at his mother’s home with his siblings going through photographs, jewelry, and heirlooms, including boxes of his mother’s artwork, and a treasure-trove of his father’s poetry and prose, untouched since his death in 2019. These finds changed the ending of some of Tom’s favorite stories, like the puzzling “spontaneous combustion” of the family car in the 1970’s, and the secret behind his dad’s sudden transformation from “Mean Dad” to “Mellow Dad” in the fall of 1985.

Hope to see you there. (If you don’t get tickets, stand by-the show sells out as fast I expect it will, they will probably give me another date. But it’s always good to be first, right?)