Fran Lebowitz

Prepare to be skewered, delighted, and left desperately wishing you'd said that first. Fran Lebowitz — author, cultural provocateur, and New York's most quotable curmudgeon — brings her legendary wit to intimate stages across North America and beyond, delivering evenings that blur the line between stand-up, literary salon, and the most entertaining argument you've ever lost. Her appearances at iconic venues including Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre in Auckland, and the storied Edmond Town Hall in Newtown are unmissable gatherings for anyone who loves language wielded like a precision instrument. Lebowitz, best known to a new generation through Martin Scorsese's Netflix documentary 'Pretend It's a City,' has spent decades perfecting the art of the perfectly timed grievance. Her evenings unfold as freewheeling conversations — part monologue, part Q&A — covering everything from the state of modern culture and the indignities of contemporary life to literature, taste, and the inexhaustible absurdity of other people. No two evenings are alike, and that spontaneity is precisely what makes each one feel like a rare, unrepeatable event. Whether you catch her on Saturday, May 9, 2026 in Toronto, May 10 in Ottawa, May 28 in Auckland, or on Saturday, September 19, 2026 at the intimate Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, you're in for an evening of razor-sharp observations that will make you laugh, think, and reconsider everything you thought you knew about common sense. Come early, settle in, and let one of the great American voices remind you exactly why opinions, when properly formed, are an art form.