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.”