(un) conditional Written by Ali Keller Directed by Ivey Lowe SoHo Playhouse October 3, 2025 Production website 💉 out of 5.
I, who have attended literally hundreds of productions in New York from basements to Broadway, have NEVER been more offended or made more uncomfortable (and NOT in a good way) to the totally unnecessary 90 minutes of (un)conditional. There was not one redeeming thing to be found here. Let me tell you just a bit about the plot of the show- – if for no reason than to just get it off my body. There are two couples.
The House of McQueen Written by Darrah Cloud Directed by Sam Helfrich The Mansion at Hudson Yards October 2, 2025 Production website 💉💉 out of 5
The House of McQueen is a new bio-play about Alexander McQueen radical bad boy of fashion. McQueen’s work was admired for its highly original blend of subversion and tradition, evident from the outset in his ‘Bumster’ trousers, sharp frock coats, corroded fabrics, slashed leather and shredded, flesh-revealing lace.
You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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.
The Day I Accidentally Went to War Written and performed by Bill Posley Soho Playhouse August 16, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉 out of 5
My final one-person show of this visit to NYC was The Day I Accidentally Went to War. Written and performed by Bill Posley, the play confronts his experience as a soldier in Iraq during the War on Terror. The audience follows a deeply personal journey from his childhood through basic training, his unexpected deployment, and eventual homecoming. Apart from his personal story, he is trying to bridge the anti-military with the pro-military.
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.”
