Die Hard sendup Yippie Ki Yay coming to San Antonio’s Tobin Center

Die Hard is one of the great Hollywood action movies of all time.

Entertaining and dazzlingly photographed, it includes an all-time iconic Bruce Willis performance and a star-making film debut by classically trained English actor Alan Rickman. The film represents the apotheosis of ’80s high-concept popcorn movies and is arguably the progenitor of the Christmas action film genre.

It’s also fairly ridiculous, featuring Twinkie-chomping cops, sniveling coke-sniffing yuppies and glowering, long-locked East German terrorists. As such, it’s been a ripe target for affectionate parody, ridicule and homage.

Yippee Ki Yay, the acclaimed Fringe Festival-endorsed show by Richard Marsh, weaves a super-fan’s relationship to the film with a loving sendup and recreation. And lucky for fans of the original film, the one-man parody will be presented at the Tobin Center Dec. 17-19.

Content warning: this performance includes divorce, foot trauma and German terrorists.

$28-$50, 8 p.m. Dec. 17-19, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org.

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This article appears in Dec 11-17, 2024.