A Solo Comedy Show Lands in a 1929 Picture Palace

Em Rusciano built her audience through radio, writing and live performance, and Addicted To Love runs as a single evening under her own direction. The State Theatre gives her a gilded room with deep stalls and two levels above. The night mixes stand-up with song and long personal stories, rather than a straight club set. The material is written for adults. Support is minimal, and the running time sits around two hours with an interval.

You enter from Market Street into a marble foyer, and ushers check tickets before the stairs. Seats are numbered across stalls, dress circle and grand circle. Cloakroom sits off the main foyer. Bars open on each level before curtain and during the interval, and pre-ordered drinks wait on the counter. The chandelier draws a queue of photographs before the doors close, which the staff are used to. Latecomers are held until a break.

Curtain is at 8 in the evening on Saturday, September 19, at 49 Market Street in the city. Town Hall station sits two minutes from the door, and late trains run from there across the network. Every ticket carries a one dollar restoration levy, listed on top of the face price. Book by row rather than by price alone. It fits anyone who wants a full evening of live comedy in a seat. If you were after a standing room, this is not that.