The Other Americans
Written by John Leguizamo
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Public – Anspacher Theatre
October 11, 2025
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

The Other Americans packs a mighty much and that is due greatly to design and story-telling of Arthur Miller and his masterwork Death of a Salesman.  Much of the passion and power of The Other Americans comes from the Latino perspective of this American classic as it adds other vital themes of racism, capitalism, and toxic masculinity.

The Weather Girl
Written by Brian Watkins
Directed by Tyne Rafaeli
St. Ann’s Warhorse
October 1, 2025
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

Weather Girl is a brilliant, tight, 70-minute one woman show that centers on Stacey Gross, a weather girl on a Fresno, California TV station.  She is a sunny, ever-positive, sparkling weather girl.  She has been directed by her news produces to ignore completely the long-term toll of drought and wildfires plaguing the area.  Her world and even neighbored is literally on fire.  To cope, she is belting down Prosecco on air and step-by-step losing her mind.

Morgan Bassichis: Can I Be Frank?
Written and performed by Morgan Bassichis
Soho Playhouse
August 13, 2025
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

Sam Pinkleton has been very busy this giving a career boost to three burgeoning gay actors.  He began with Cole Escola and won a Tony for directing him in Oh, Mary!  And – tonight I watched his next collaboration with Morgan Bassichis and his Off-Broadway solo show, Can I Be Frank?    This 70-minute solo show sets the fiercely funny Bassichis exploring the life of performance artist/comic/musician Frank Maya, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1995.  I would imagine you are like me and don’t have a clue who Frank Maya is.  You are not alone.  You will be after this show as Bassichis’s mission is to spread the gospel of Maya far and wide.  Maya performed at La Mama and PS 122 and other off-Broadway venues, but also at the hugely influential Caroline’s Comedy Club and on networks including Comedy Central. A 1991 voiceover intro on MTV’s Half Hour Comedy Hour called him “America’s only openly gay comedian.”

Beau The Musical
Concept, Book and Lyrics by Douglas Lyons
Director/Choreographer: Josh Rhodes
Out of the Box Theatrics
August 2, 2025
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

Beau featured eight actor-musicians telling the story of Ace Baker – a young queer man whose life is forever changed when he discovers his deceased grandfather is actually still alive.  Family secrets unravel as Ace rushes to make up for lost time with a man who changes his life by putting a guitar in his hand. I had a simply wonderful night of theatre at the Out of the Box / Theatre 154.