Comedian Candice Guardino has been using the eccentricities of her family members and the dynamics of the Italian-American experience for inspiration on the stage. She performs impressions of everyone from her father to her grandmother, all done tongue in cheek and with a love for her relatives, her culture and her upbringing in Staten Island, New York.

Guardino will bring her unique brand of theatrical comedy to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Victoria Theater for two shows Saturday, Jan. 26. Under the banner of Candice Guardino’s Italian Bred, the comedy special promises to be a full meal of laughs and maybe even a few tears.