AUSTRALIAN COMEDIAN
CELESTE BARBER
ANNOUNCES U.S. ENCORE DATES ON HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL
‘BACKUP DANCER’ TOUR
BOCH CENTER SHUBERT THEATRE - BOSTON, MA
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2025
Tickets Available Starting on Wednesday, September 3 with Presales
General Onsale Begins on Thursday, September 4 at 5 pm ET on LiveNation.com
Back by popular demand, Australian comedian and internet sensation, Celeste Barber today announced a brand-new U.S. encore leg to her sellout tour Celeste Barber: Backup Dancer.
Produced by Live Nation, the six-city run includes a stop at Boch Center Shubert Theatre in Boston, MA, on Saturday, November 1, 2025.
Celeste first embarked on the global Celeste Barber: Backup Dancer tour in 2024, performing to sold out audiences across North America, Australia, and New Zealand, and landing appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Drew Barrymore Show, The Today Show and more.
TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with various presales beginning on Wednesday, September 3 at 12 pm. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning on Thursday, September 4 at 5 pm ET at livenation.com.
CELESTE BARBER: BACKUP DANCER FALL 2025 TOUR DATES:
Sat Oct 18 – Portland, OR – Newmark Theatre
Mon Oct 20 – San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts
Fri Oct 24 – Los Angeles, CA – Wilshire Ebell Theatre
Mon Oct 27 – New York, NY – The Town Hall
Wed Oct 29 – Tampa, FL – Hard Rock Casino*
Sat Nov 01 – Boston, MA – Boch Center Shubert Theatre
*Non-Live Nation Date
ABOUT CELESTE BARBER Celeste is an actress, writer, comedian and internet sensation.Hailed as the “Australian Queen of Comedy”, Celeste's original celebrity parody Instagram account has attracted over 9.7 million followers including Reese Witherspoon, Amy Schumer, Chelsea Handler, Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Lopez, Drew Barrymore and Tom Ford, whom she collaborated with in 2018 on his Boys and Girls beauty campaign. Celeste won the ‘Funniest Lady on Instagram’ Award 2017 on WhoHaha.com; a digital platform co-founded by actor, director, producer, Elizabeth Banks which showcases women in comedy around the world. In 2019 she was included in Variety Magazine’s prestigious ‘Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch’ Awards.
An MICF Raw Comedy state finalist for her sold out Sydney Comedy and Fringe Festivals shows in 2015, Celeste’s one woman show; Celeste Barber Challenge Accepted! premiered in Sydney in June 2017 and has gone on to three sell out seasons in the US. In 2019 Celeste Barber Challenge Accepted! performed at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Her New York show at The Gramercy was recorded for her first Showtime special before continuing with a sell-out debut season in the UK and Europe. Her show then returned to Australia and New Zealand in September 2019. Celeste toured Australia, New Zealand, the US and Europe in 2022 and 2023 with her stand-up show Celeste Barber: Fine, Thanks. Celeste finished her tour with special filmed performances
at the iconic Sydney Opera House that was released on Netflix in 2023.
Celeste embarked on her Celeste Barber: BackUp Dancer tour in 2024 touring to sellout shows in North America, Australia and New Zealand and continued in Europe, the UK and Dubai to record audiences in 2025. Celeste’s memoir; Challenge Accepted! was released in Australia in September 2018, with UK release following shortly after. Challenge Accepted! was shortlisted for the ABIA 2019 Biography Book of The Year. Her US version of the book was released in 2019 with foreign rights following in France, Germany, Russia and Poland.
Celeste starred in the Netflix series Wellmania inspired by Brigid Delaney’s novel Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness. Other credits include her comedy series #CelesteChallengeAccepted and The Way We Wore a documentary series exploring the evolution of Australian fashion for the ABC, she also appeared in the award-winning ABC/Netflix series The Letdown as the straight shooting, no frills confident mum; Barb. Her most recent credits include the Paramount+ series Colin From Accounts S2, and the Australian features See Pictures’ Runt and Like A Photon’s animation The Lost Tiger. In early 2020, Celeste used her platform to raise $52 million during Australia’s most devastating bushfire season. She also hosted the Fire Fight Australia event which raised more funds to help those affected by the fires.
Follow Celeste Barber:
Website | Facebook | X | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Celeste Barber
Jamieson Campbell | jamie@jamiecampbellmanagement.com.au
Live Nation Concerts
Nadine Pena | nadinepena@livenation.com
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