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.”
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!
well, I’ll let you go Written by Bubba Weiler Directed by Jack Serio The Space at Irondale August 5, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Set in a small Midwestern town well I’ll let you go is a portrait of a woman and a community in crisis. Alternately vast and personal in scope, shifting backwards and forwards in time, this expansive, yet incredibly intimate, debut play sifts through the rubble of a town, marriage and a life built on an American dream that’s crumbled period.
Entering the “space” above a beautiful church in Brooklyn I was met with a very long court of a floor all in nailed down in plywood and a handful of metal folding chairs. I knew this was going to be a terrible show or something really special. AND it turned out to be something very, very special. It is impossible to believe that this is playwright Bubba Weiler’s playwriting debut – – It is so clean and clear with beautiful language and the perfect blending of kitchen-sink American realism with touches of theatrical magic. I was interested and invested in each character and wanted to see how each of their story lines played out.
The Weir Written by Conor McPherson Directed by Ciaran O’Reilly Irish Repertory Theatre August 3, 2025 Production website 💉💉💉 out of 5.
The Weir is not the type of play that you want to watch after spending a few hours of walking energetically through the streets of New York – only to find a dim well air-conditioned theatre – the play is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop. The Weir is a very quiet, very still and very much a show to be attentive and present to.
