Marlene Nichols does it again this spring!
She cannot help herself, she is incorrigible, she simply will not stop!
Watch the exhibitionista extroardinaire on stage at Stage Left Studio
in three encore performances of the smash hit Dress Kiss Me,
followed by The Dealer's Choice (a selection of excerpts from past shows
including Just Back from Dreaming, Rum Boogie and No Change Given.

Solo performer Marlene Nichols dazzles audiences in Dress Kiss Me—a story about the search for beauty, fashion, and the perfect Hollywood kiss.

New York sample sales are gladiator fights. When Marlene embarks on a shopping spree only to have her pants stolen in a changing room scuffle, she has no choice but to splurge
on an evening dress with more attitude than she bargained for. Marlene is confronted with a final-sale and a dubious quandry: Will she be able to wear this dress out, or will this dress decide to wear her out?

Dress Kiss Me exposes a glimpse of life in the big city, where everything has a mind of its own and everyone has attitude to spare, and where one dress can change life as you know it!

Part writer, part showman,
part Southern belle, part
New York City wisecracker,
Marlene Nichols believes
if you’re not laughing,
you’re not really living.

Nichols works the stage from
front and back ends as author
and solo performer of the
hilariously heartbreaking
(and heartbreakingly hilarious)
shows Dress Kiss Me,
Just Back from Dreaming
and Seeing Voices. Ensemble casts bring life to the characters in
Nichols' plays No Change Given
and Rum Boogie.

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Rip off your girdle and turn up the blues with Rum Boogie! Set against the backdrop
of Memphis, Tennessee, with its grand hotels and down ‘n dirty blues clubs, the play
profiles six bawdy and irreverent characters, each clinging to dreams of freedom
as they come to terms with the cost of always wanting more.



“If you can’t play with the big dogs,
better stay on the porch with the pups.”