{"id":398378,"date":"2026-07-14T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398378\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:03:08","slug":"issa-rae-brings-her-insecure-10-year-anniversary-tour-to-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398378\/","title":{"rendered":"Issa Rae Brings Her \u2018Insecure\u2019 10-Year Anniversary Tour to Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presale tickets for the Fox Theater show go on sale July 15. <\/p>\n

Jul 14, 2026<\/p>\n

Updated 1:25 pm PT<\/p>\n

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Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji starred as two best friends navigating career ambitions and dating in \u2019Insecure.\u2019\u00a0(Justina Mintz\/Courtesy of HBO)<\/p>\n

When Issa Rae\u2019s Insecure debuted a decade ago, the show quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Across four seasons, the HBO series followed the fictional Issa Dee and her Los Angeles group of friends \u2014 all professional Black women in their late 20s and early 30s \u2014 as they navigated dating misadventures and career ambitions with humor and style.<\/p>\n

The show arrived during a drought for nuanced Black stories<\/a> on screen, and quickly attracted a massive, multicultural fanbase. In their living rooms, and on Twitter, fans would spend hours unpacking each episode\u2019s social commentary<\/a>. Ten years later, Issa\u2019s quest to find herself after leaving a dead-end relationship and problematic nonprofit job still feels relevant.<\/p>\n

Today, Rae announced that she\u2019s taking Insecure on a 10-year anniversary tour, with a stop at Oakland\u2019s Fox Theater on Sept. 26. She and showrunner Prentice Penny will be in conversation with Yvonne Orji (who played Issa\u2019s lawyer best friend Molly), Jay Ellis (whose arc as Issa\u2019s ex Lawrence sparked heated gender debates) and Natasha Rothwell (who, as Issa\u2019s lovably chaotic friend Kelli, brought much-needed comic relief to all the drama).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presale tickets for the Fox Theater show go on sale July 15. Jul 14, 2026 Updated 1:25 pm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-398378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}