Tickets are $35 and reserved.
Back for his 3rd appearance! Mr. Boston!
Boston comedy legend Lenny Clarke returns to The Park Theatre this November for his third appearance, bringing his unmistakable accent, outrageous storytelling and irrepressible New England wit back to Jaffrey. His comedy roots run deep in Boston and Cambridge: while working as a janitor to help put himself through UMass Boston, Clarke visited an open-mic night at Cambridge’s Ding Ho Chinese restaurant, watched the comedians and decided he could do it, too. He returned the following week and eventually became the club’s regular open-mic host, establishing himself during the Boston comedy explosion of the early 1980s. Rodney Dangerfield helped introduce him to a national audience with the HBO special Nothin’ Goes Right, and Clarke’s rise from local clubs to television and movies never erased the working-class humor that made him a hometown favorite.
Clarke’s acting career spans sitcoms, acclaimed dramas and major Hollywood comedies. Television audiences know him best as Uncle Teddy opposite Denis Leary on Rescue Me, and his credits also include his own sitcom, Lenny, The John Larroquette Show and The Job. His film appearances range from There’s Something About Mary, Me, Myself & Irene and Fever Pitch to Here Comes the Boom, The Judge and Halloween Kills. More recent work includes playing The Captain in the 2025 independent comedy-drama All Saints Day and Elvin Reddy in the 2026 crime series Scarpetta, whose ensemble includes Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Cannavale and Simon Baker. With more than four decades of experience onstage and onscreen, Clarke brings both a veteran actor’s presence and a Boston storyteller’s sense of mischief to his latest Park Theatre return.