The Rio Theatre is beyond excited to welcome beloved filmmaker and pop-culture icon John Waters back to our stage - live! - for a command performance of his new spoken word show, “Devil’s Advocate,” on Friday, April 26.

If you missed this show when Mr Waters performed it at the Rio Theatre in 2023, you're in luck! This brand new, fast-moving, comedic monologue about today’s despair and diseases, desires and desperations breaks through with an insane optimism that welcomes all audiences into a new dawn of depravity. He’s here to tell you how to reinvent the movie business, embrace stupidity in an intellectual way, and even go beyond the limits of sexual transgression. John Waters, the man the press has called “The People’s Pervert," will mutate your madness into hope and lead you to a joyous, delirious ever after.

Friday, April 26
Doors 7:00 pm | Event 8:00 pm *Sharp! Please arrive on time. Latecomers will not be admitted.

Balcony (General Admission) $80+ s/c | $90 at the door
Main Floor (Reserved Seating) $90 + s/c | $100 at the door
VIP $130+ s/c (Limited quantity available / First four rows, centre section / Max 4 per transaction)

VIP tickets include: Early access to the theatre, priority seating in the first four rows/ centre section, a commemorative event poster signed by John Waters(!), access to an exclusive post-show “Group Therapy” session featuring an intimate Q&A, and an opportunity to take a socially-distanced selfie with the man himself. VIP tickets are capped at 4 / transaction.

Tickets for this event go on sale on Friday, February 16 at 1:00 pm.

Please note: Absolutely no videotaping, audio taping or photography of any kind permitted during the performance. This includes cell phones equipped with cameras or any electronic device with audio, video or photographic capability. Failure to comply with the guidelines outlined above will result in removal from the event.