Ta-Da!
Written by Josh Sharp
Directed by Sam Pinkerton
Greenwich House Theater
August 11, 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 Josh Sharp and his Off-Broadway solo show, Ta-Da.  The title makes you feel like you are going to be watching a magic show but there is no rabbit to be pulled out of a hat.  Instead, we get a bit of a TED Talk-like personal monologue lasting some 80 minutes that is driven and defined by exactly 2,000 rapid fire projects – for the most part displaying his script or a few clever asides to the script.  It felt like a standup comedy routine where every moment was scripted – and that was the very source of its humor.  2,000 slides – – in 80 minutes he had to hit the PowerPoint button every 2.4 seconds to get us to the finish line!