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Yes, I Can Say That!: Judy Gold Hilariously Makes Her Voice Heard

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ The comedian talks about her influences and the corrosive effects of censorship on comedy in her one-person show.

In her new one-person show, comedian Judy Gold ambitiously attempts to blend traditional stand-up, autobiographical material, a tribute to the great female comedians of the past who’ve influenced her, and social commentary about the growing danger of social, political and even physical attacks on comedians around the world. It’s a tricky balance, but the talented and engaging performer manages to pull it off. Yes, I Can Say That! , co-written by fellow comedian Eddie Sarfaty and based on Gold’s 2020 book of the same name, has its rough spots. But overall, it proves enlightening, informative and, most important of all, funny.

Aided by sound effects and projections of images ranging from female comedians she’s admired to such subject headings as “Vaginas in Comedy,” Gold freely alternates between stand-up comedy, signaled by her use of a handheld microphone and a tendency to shout her lines, and more serious commentary, albeit still packed with one-liners, delivered in more sober tones. She pays lavish tribute, complete with imitations, to such inspirations as Phyllis Diller, Totie Fields, Joan Rivers, Moms Mabley and other women who entered the field at a time when it was largely dominated by males. And speaking of males, she has harsh words for Jerry Lewis, who once said about female comics, “A woman doing comedy doesn’t offend me, but sets me back a bit. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.”

Ouch. It’s no wonder Gold refers to him as a “misogynist pig.”

Gold proves herself adept at analyzing the art form to which she’s devoted her life, demonstrated by her comments in the section about “crossing the line.” As an example, she delivers a joke using the Holocaust as a punch line. It’s very funny, but, as she points out, she has to be careful about when and where she uses it. On the other hand, she exults that if the audience laughs, and for the right reasons, it’s akin to winning the lottery. She cites several recent examples of comedians who don’t stay within politically correct territory and suffered career problems as a result.

One of those was Gold, who once made jokes about a Hasidic woman in Brooklyn who had her wig torn off while she was walking on the street with her children. Someone posted some of the jokes online, resulting in Gold getting vociferously attacked (we see a sample of the nasty emails) and receiving negative press publicity. But she’s clearly unbowed, not only repeating the jokes here but also expanding them. And they’re indeed hilarious, as is her imitation of Senator Chuck Schumer, whose speechifying style she compares to “reciting the Mourner’s Kaddish.”

Needless to say, Gold has little use for comedians kowtowing to people’s sensitivities, as exemplified by the trend of providing “safe spaces” that even some comedy clubs have come to embrace. She quotes her collaborator Sarfaty, who says, “Going to a comedy club and expecting not to get offended is like going on a rollercoaster and expecting not to get scared.”

She cites cases of comedians around the world who have been imprisoned by their governments and even killed, including her hero, Afghan comedian Khasha Zwan, who was murdered by the Taliban. In the execution video posted online, he’s seen making jokes and mocking his killers until the very end.

A particularly moving segment involves her tribute to such fellow comedians as Bob Smith, a close friend who continued performing after being diagnosed with ALS until audiences could no longer understand his slurred speech. And who continued to write jokes until his death with the aid of an iPad on which he typed them out with one finger.

If all this makes the show sound like a TED talk, it couldn’t be further from the truth. Yes, the evening occasionally slips toward didacticism. And the staging by BD Wong can feel too cutesy at times with its visual and sound effects serving as theatrical rim shots. But Gold is so naturally funny, her delivery and comic timing so impeccable, that belly laughs are to be had in abundance. And while it may be true that Yes, I Can Say That! is preaching to the choir, that doesn’t make its sermon any less important or its preacher any less uproarious.

Yes, I Can Say That! opened March 21, 2023, at 59E59 and runs through April 16. Tickets and information: 59e59.org

About Frank Scheck

Frank Scheck has been covering film, theater and music for more than 30 years. He is currently a New York correspondent and arts writer for The Hollywood Reporter. He was previously the editor of Stages Magazine, the chief theater critic for the Christian Science Monitor, and a theater critic and culture writer for the New York Post. His writing has appeared in such publications as the New York Daily News, Playbill, Backstage, and various national and international newspapers.

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Theater review by Raven Snook At the outset of Judy Gold’s funny and furious new solo show, the veteran stand-up says that a comedian's only goal onstage is to make audiences laugh. By that standard, Yes, I Can Say That! is an uproarious success. But the show, based on Gold’s book of the same name, isn't just an evening of yuks. It’s also a memoir and memorial to her comedy forebears and, as the title of this Primary Stages production implies, an impassioned defense of the right to offend in an era when free speech is under attack from all sides . As an argument, Yes, I Can Say That!  is not always convincing. Gold is right that life is not a safe space, but she indulges in the false equivalency that speech is being stifled in the same way on the left and the right, and she never acknowledges that punch-lining down may have consequences beyond cancellation. If you’re rankled by digs at identity politics (especially pronouns), this may not be the show for you. Still, in the culture wars, we need savvy soldiers like Gold on the front lines to remind us that, in other countries, speaking your mind can get you jailed or killed. 

Directed by BD Wong, the show includes clever projections, cute stage business and clear emotional beats that keep it from hardening into a TED Talk, and ultimately it's more successful as a personal narrative than as a polemic. Gold's tributes to pioneering ladies like Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller and Totie Fields are moving and amusing, and her own tale of coming out while she was coming up is a testament to the importance of speaking one's truth, particularly for comedians. If they're not allowed to cross the line—which is constantly being redrawn, anyway—how will we ever move forward?

Yes, I Can Say That!  59E59 Theaters ( Off Broadway ). By Judy Gold and Eddie Sarfaty. With Gold. Directed by BD Wong. Running time: 1hr 30mins. No intermission.  Follow Raven Snook on Twitter: @ravensnook Follow Time Out Theater on Twitter: @TimeOutTheater Follow Time Out Theater on Facebook: Time Out Theater

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‘Yes, I Can Say That!’ Review: The Freedom to Offend

The comedian Judy Gold’s new solo show at 59E59 Theaters is deliberately uncomfortable — and packed with laughs.

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By Laura Collins-Hughes

The knuckle-dragging notion that women aren’t funny makes only a cameo in the comedian Judy Gold’s new solo show, “ Yes, I Can Say That! ” It’s tucked amid her homage to pioneering forebears like Totie Fields and Joan Rivers, who, Gold tells the audience, “said out loud what women whispered about when their husbands weren’t around.”

The slur about unfunniness, she says, was handed down through generations of men “who did not want to see some brassy broad onstage making jokes about them and the part they played in their wives’ unhappiness.”

Directed by BD Wong for Primary Stages , “Yes, I Can Say That!” is a deliberately uncomfortable, laugh-packed show seeded with stealth missiles like that one. Though Gold insists at the outset that a comedian’s only goal is to land the joke, this is not entirely true. As in her smart and impassioned book “Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble,” released in 2020, she wants at least as much to make us think.

Onstage at 59E59 Theaters , Gold builds a vehement case for the vital importance of the freedom to offend in a healthy democratic society. For starters, she would like us to get over the kind of hair-trigger touchiness about language that leads to social media pile-ons, and focus on genuine threats.

“They are taking away women’s rights, they are banning books, we have mass shootings, and people are furious if you mistakenly use the wrong pronoun,” she says. Then, urgently: “We had an insurrection, people!”

As much as Gold is in favor of some general toughening up across the political spectrum, she’s not anti-sensitivity — “I [expletive] hate bullies,” she says — just anti-preciousness and anti-absurdity. What worries her is the freedom of expression that gets taken away when the freedom to outrage is banished.

Written by Gold and Eddie Sarfaty, “Yes, I Can Say That!” interweaves a brief history of American comedy (Lenny Bruce is of course invoked) with Gold’s personal history, including comedy-club flashbacks, like the time she took rapid revenge on an M.C. who was witless enough to insult her just before she took the mic. She does some terrific impressions, including an uncanny Rudy Giuliani.

What she doesn’t quite do is make palpable any current threat to comedians’ speech, so a moment when she explicitly frets about that — in the context of speaking truth to the president at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — feels like a relic of the previous presidency, when Gold wrote her book. The show’s argument could gain strength by paying just a little more attention to some of the other First Amendment issues currently in the headlines.

Gold’s larger point is that the ugliness of the past isn’t as long ago as we like to think. She notes, unnervingly, that her birth in 1962 was just 17 years after the death camp at Auschwitz was liberated.

“Hashtag ObjectsInMirrorAreCloserThanTheyAppear,” she says, almost as if it’s a throwaway line.

She gets a laugh, but the joke is a warning.

Yes, I Can Say That! Through April 16 at 59E59 Theaters, Manhattan; 59e59.org . Running time: 1 hour 20 minutes.

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Judy has had stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy Central and LOGO. She was a part of Netflix's Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration. She is the author of Yes I Can Say That: When They Come For The Comedians, We Are All In Trouble, a critically acclaimed book about free speech and cancel culture which debuted as the number one comedy release on Amazon and was featured in the New York Times Book Review. Judy is also host of the hit podcast, Kill Me Now with Judy Gold. Judy TV acting credits include, City On A Hill (Cassndra Kassell), FX’s Better Things (Chaya). Showtime's The First Lady (Elizabeth Read). Judy also guest stars as Sophie in the much-anticipated Apple TV+ drama series Extrapolations. Other guest stars include Hulu’s Life and Beth, and Season 2 of Peacock’s Girls 5 Eva. She has had recurring roles on Comedy Central's Awkwafina, Netflix’s Friends from College and TBS’ Search Party. Her recent film credits include Love Reconsidered and the upcoming She Came To Me, and Eternal Buzz. Judy is one of the main subjects in the Hulu documentary Hysterical. She has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show. From 1999-2010, Judy was the host of HBO’s At the Multiplex with Judy Gold. Judy also won two Emmy awards for writing and producing The Rosie O’Donnell Show. She was also a writer on the final season of Better Things. Judy has written and starred in two critically acclaimed, Off-Broadway hit shows: The Judy Show – My Life as a Sitcom (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), and 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (GLAAD Media Award – Outstanding NY Theater, Drama Desk Nomination – Actor). Judy received rave reviews as Gremio in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park all-female production of The Taming of The Shrew. She also co-starred in Off-Broadway’s Clinton! The Musical, and Disaster! The Musical. Judy has made numerous appearances on The View, The Today Show, The Drew Barrymore Show, and on MSNBC, CNN and NewsNation as free-speech advocate. She often pops up on The Food Network, but please do not mention Chopped All Stars or Rachel vs. Guy to her. Judy’s three albums, Conduct Unbecoming, Kill Me Now and Judith’s Roommate Had a Baby are available wherever you get your music. You can also check out her website, JudyGold.com or follow her on Twitter, Instagram or Tik Tok - @jewdygold

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Theatre Review: Judy Gold in Yes, I Can Say That! (59E59 Theaters, New York) ★★★★★

Based on her on 2020 book— Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble —Emmy-winning veteran comedian Judy Gold’s thrillingly ambitious new one-woman show— Yes, I Can Say That! —examines stand-up comedy’s ability to speak truth to power, and the dangers of censoring and silencing comedians. Not only is it provocative, thought-provoking, and moving, it’s continually hilarious. Gold has discovered that free speech in comedy isn’t just a vital and timely topic that she’s fired up about, it’s also a rich comic seam.

Part memoir, Gold engagingly takes us back to her childhood—when she had a secret crush on Brooke Shields and a habit of putting on her father’s clothes before he got home from work—and her discovery of the pure satisfaction of making other people laugh, a pleasure that’s only increased over her decades-long career. She takes us through her experience of navigating stand-up as a “comedienne” in not just a male-dominated field, but one steeped in misogyny. In a particularly touching segment of the show, Gold talks about her admiration for the female comics who blazed the trail, as their faces are projected on to the stage around her. “Funny women” like Totie Fields, Lily Tomlin, Lucille Ball, Moms Mabley, Carol Burnett, Phyllis Diller, and her ultimate comedy idol, Joan Rivers. One of the reasons men say women aren’t funny, Gold points out, is the uncomfortable truths about men that they often bring to light in their work. In fact, most jokes are funny because there’s truth in them, Gold asserts.

Like Joan Rivers before her, Gold makes fun of topics that are closest to home first; her appearance; her Jewishness; her mental health; and her queerness, including her own internalized homophobia before coming out publicly in the mid-90s. She addresses her decision remain in the closet before that—in an age when Ellen, Rosie, and even Liberace weren’t out—before revisiting the joke that she did eventually come out to the world with, about being a gay parent (that’s still funny), and the reactions that she received as she toured nationally. The joke resulted in some walkouts, as well as some meaningful moments of audience members seeing LGBTQ folks in a new light thanks to her comedy.

At a time when the Earth itself is in crisis, reproductive, women’s, LGBTQ+, voting rights and more all in peril, Gold questions the distraction of policing language. Including PETA’s list of suggested “animal friendly idioms” to replace the likes of “killing two birds with one stone” with “feed two birds with one scone”. It’s part of a movement towards political correctness, Gold argues, that threatens to limit the scope of what comedians can joke about without calls for them to be cancelled.

In her defense of free speech in comedy, Gold makes clear that she is not here to defend “bullies or assholes”—they should be “called out on their shit”—but she’s not here to offer a “safe space” either, an idea that she rails against. “Art isn’t safe” she contends. She agrees with Fran Lebowitz’s observation that “being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house”, but stresses that although she will say things that might take us out of our comfort zones and even trigger us, she won’t do it before she has earned our trust. Hence making herself a target first.

Using examples from her own sets as well as the work of her peers, Gold stresses the need for comedians to “cross the line”, to know when they’ve gone too far so they can take a step back and get the joke just right. For Gold, crossing the line happens when her audience is laughing at a joke for the wrong reasons. To illustrate, she revisits a joke that she told about removing a Hasidic woman’s wig, an extract of which was initially praised then heavily criticized online. While her intent had been to bring a defiant dose of comedy to an anti-Semitic incident—in the tradition of Jews, and other persecuted peoples and minorities finding resistance and strength, and retaining their humanity in laughter—she stresses that she wouldn’t want that joke to be taken out of context. Gold suggest, when criticizing a comedian shouldn’t the comedian’s intent be considered in the same way that it is in a homicide trial?

In surveying the history of comedy and censorship—which in itself demonstrates the perceived potential power in a comedian’s hands—Gold touches on the Nazi regime’s targeting of comedians as a dire indicator of what was to come, before looking at examples in the United States, like Lenny Bruce being arrested for content in his material in the 1960s in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. Something that led to legal cases that actually helped to assert the free speech rights of comedians. Gold brings up a quote from Bruce, projected on the wall behind her: “Take away the right to say ‘Fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘Fuck the government'”. Gold goes on to build a compelling argument that free speech in comedy is vital to a healthy democracy. After Michelle Wolfe’s controversial eye shadow joke in 2018 hit too close to home for some, comedy was cancelled at subsequent White House Correspondents’ Dinners while Trump remained in office. With Ron DeSantis banning books and implementing “don’t say gay or trans” laws in Florida, what would he do with comedy that he found to be distasteful if he ever got the reigns of federal power, Gold ponders. A phrase about the Holocaust that was drilled into Gold as a child lingers chillingly on the wall behind her: “It could happen here, if people believe it could never happen here”. Liberals, with a tendency to get offended at comedy by proxy, aren’t let off the hook by Gold either.

In examining what is and isn’t “appropriate”, Gold declares “if you feel that something is too serious to joke about, don’t joke about it, but that doesn’t mean they can’t”, observing that “a lot of great comedy is born from pain, from being marginalized, and from being othered”. She takes us through a whole host of comedians who’ve used their own dire circumstances and suffering as material for their comedy, like Tig Notaro and her battle with breast cancer and her friend Steve Moore joking about being HIV positive at the height of the AIDS crisis. As Gold sees it, comedians mining their own struggles for humour is something that not only helps to sustain the comedian themselves, but has the potential to “make us all smarter, more compassionate, and understanding”.

Comedians might discover that no one wants to laugh about certain things though, as Gilbert Gottfried found out when he made a joke in September 2001 about his flight making a detour at the Empire State Building. For that audience, in a city still in ashes, it was “too soon” for a 9/11 joke. But it wasn’t too soon to laugh again about other things, as a new season of SNL launched, playing its part in helping the nation to heal. While the holocaust might be further in the past, Gold admits that she’s cautious about where or if she tells a gas chamber joke that she has in her repertoire.

Co-written with Eddie Sarfaty, the jokes come thick and fast, but are never rushed, in this nuanced and at times deeply poignant piece of work. Every element has been well thought out and is brilliantly executed, from Kevin Heard’s sound design, to Anshuman Bhatia’s lighting, and Lex Liang’s set design, which looks like a traditional brick wall comedy club backdrop, but the “bricks” themsleves are actually comedy note cards. Shawn Duan’s projection design is impactful and inventive throughout. The work of these departments doesn’t just enhance Gold’s act, but delivers more humour, while BD Wong’s first-rate direction has a captivating flow and a satisfying clarity to it. Gold’s persona is straight-forward, passionate and sincere, speaking directly to her audience at 59E59 at the front of the stage, then making the distinction clear as she uses examples of material she’s done in her sets over the years, by moving to the stool and handheld mic “stand-up” set up at the back of the stage.

Yes, I Can Say That is a rich and stimulating work, that might trigger and offend some, but as Gold stresses “everything is not about you!” Gold argues stand-up is an art form, and proves it with this terrific work. It’s quite a feat to analyze comedy and laughter in a comedy show, take on such serious subjects, and create something that’s this entertaining and enlightening. It’s comedy gold.

By James Kleinmann

Judy Gold in Yes, I Can Say That! runs until April 16th, 2023 as part of Primary Stages’ inaugural season as 59E59 Theaters’ resident Off-Broadway theater company. For more details and to purchase tickets, head to 59e59.org .

After select performances, Judy Gold will be joined by a special guest for a talkback (included in that performance’s ticket price):

Friday, March 24th: Sandra Bernhard

Friday, March 31st: BD Wong

Friday, April 14th: Mary Trump

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Get ready for a night of laughter with Judy Gold tickets. Judy Gold is an American standup comedian, actress, writer and podcaster. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show . She has also been involved in various other projects, including the television series All-American Girl and HBO at the Multiplex . She was born in 1962 in New Jersey and did stand-up for the first time on a dare when she was a student at Rutgers University. Gold has two children, which she referenced frequently on the show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn . Gold is active in the LGBT community as well as the Jewish community and was a vocal supporter of the 2004 and 2008 Democratic presidential campaigns. Gold cites Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller as the strongest influences on her comedy. Get Judy Gold tickets now to see this thoughtful and talented comedian perform.

Gold’s one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother ran at the Ars Nova Theater and at St. Luke's Theater in New York City in 2006. The show is based on interviews with over 50 Jewish mothers in the United States, as well as Gold’s own life experiences. Gold is a commentator on truTV's TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest . She was featured in the film Making Trouble , a tribute to female Jewish comedians. In 2011 Gold was named a Givenik Ambassador, the same year The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom began previews at Off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre in New York City. Another one-woman show, The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom is an homage to the sitcoms of Gold's youth. Critics called the show "highly entertaining" and "gleefully self-deprecating." Grab your tickets today for this entertaining show.

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YES, I CAN SAY THAT! Starring Judy Gold & More Added to 59E59 Theaters Winter 2023 Season

The Winter 2023 Season will feature Shedding Load, presented by Varsity Theatre Company; Brainsmash, presented by The Hearth and more.

59E59 Theaters has announced additional productions for their Winter 2023 Season.

The 59E59 Winter 2023 Season will begin with the previously announced productions of The Immortal Jellyfish Girl, presented by Wakka Wakka; followed by two productions as part of Origin's 1st Irish-Heaven, presented by Fishamble: The New Play Company; and Frankenstein's Monster is Drunk and the Sheep have all Jumped the Fences, presented by Big Telly Theatre Company.

The Winter 2023 Season will continue with Shedding Load, presented by Varsity Theatre Company, followed by Yes, I Can Say That!, presented by Primary Stages ( Andrew Leynse , Artistic Director; Shane Hudson , Executive Director; Casey Childs , Founder) as part of their inaugural season as 59E59 Theaters ' Resident Off Broadway Theater Company. The season will conclude with Brainsmash, presented by The Hearth; followed by Dia Y Noche, presented by LAByrinth Theater Company; and According to the Chorus, presented by New Light Theater Project in association with The Journey Company.

Full casting and creative teams for the productions will be announced at a later date. More information about the shows can be found below. For details regarding tickets and performance schedules, visit 59E59.org .

The 59E59 Theaters Winter 2023 Season will include:

The Varsity Theatre Company presents

Shedding Load

By Jessica Owens

Directed by Mia Walker

Previews begin February 2

Opening Night is February 7

Limited run through February 18

On July 13, 1977, lightning struck three times in the New York area causing a city-wide blackout. In the following hours rioters destroyed multiple city blocks, millions of dollars' worth of property, and the dreams of one Bushwick family. With their store and livelihood burned to the ground, they rely on each other to stay hopeful among the ruins.

Shedding Load follows this family, from 1938 to 2014, as they uncover long-kept family secrets, confront generational trauma, and face the fallout of how a singular event can alter a neighborhood forever.

Primary Stages presents

Judy Gold in Yes, I Can Say That!

By Judy Gold & Eddie Sarfaty

Directed by BD Wong

Previews begin March 4

Opening Night is March 21

Limited run through April 16

Judy Gold knows the value of a good joke - and the steep price of silencing comedians. Unnerved and infuriated, Judy shares her reverence for the intimacy of collective laughter and her passion for the vital work comedians do to bring us together, make us think, and speak truth to power.

Based on her book Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble, the comedy veteran is taking the stage to tell the fascists and crybabies to shove their hate and political correctness up their respective asses. This wickedly funny new one-woman show is a big-mouthed and big-hearted call for truth, kindness, common sense, and most of all, laughter.

The Hearth presents

By Sophie Weisskoff

Directed by Emma Miller

Previews begin March 2

Opening Night is March 5

Limited run through March 19

After Maisie gets hit by a car, a traumatic brain injury turns her life upside down. Suddenly computer screens hurt to look at, a haunting reptile taunts, and why did no one ever tell her that speech-to-text would be this hard?

Brainsmash is a sense-engaging, funny-sad play about acquired disabilities and being there for those who need you the most, even if they don't know how to ask.

LAByrinth Theater Company presents

Dia Y Noche

By David Anzuelo

Directed by Carlos Armesto

Previews begin March 18

Opening Night is March 26

Limited run through April 15

Sex, drugs, queerness, and punk-rock. Welcome to border city life in El Paso, Texas, 1984.

Dia Y Noche is an unfiltered coming-of-age story about class struggles and the search for acceptance between two unlikely friends. Danny is a lower middle-class Chicano punk-rock kid who thinks he might be an artist. Martin is a Black upper-middle class band nerd who is gay and in the closet. Danny and Martin double-date, watch X-rated movies, go to concerts and try to overcome great odds as they navigate the racism and corruption greeting them at the doors to adulthood.

New Light Theater Project, in association with The Journey Company, presents

According to the Chorus

By Arlene Hutton

Directed by Chris Goutman

Previews begin March 23

Opening Night is March 28

In the basement quick change room of a Broadway theater in the mid-1980s, the chorus girls are at war with their dressers. Will the new dresser, with her own sad past and uncertain future, be able to navigate this minefield?

According to the Chorus is a funny, nostalgic behind-the-scenes look at a pivotal period in the history of Broadway where women's issues and the AIDS crisis play out through the everyday lives of Equity performers and union dressers.

Previously announced productions for the Winter 2023 Season include:

Wakka Wakka presents

The Immortal Jellyfish Girl

A Co-Production with Nordland Visual Theatre

Written and Directed by Gwendolyn Warnock & Kirjan Waage

Previews Begin January 10

Opening Night is January 18

Limited run through February 12

Winner of the Drama Desk Special Award for Sophisticated Puppetry, Wakka Wakka (MADE IN CHINA, 2017) returns with The Immortal Jellyfish Girl.

Part coming-of-age story and part dystopian tragedy, The Immortal Jellyfish Girl soars through dimensions, unconfined by time, gravity, or biology. The year is 2555: large swaths of the earth's surface are considered dead zones and global extinction has begun. Yet in this age of loneliness and destruction there is still hope...

Hilarious, ridiculous, and virtuosic, The Immortal Jellyfish Girl takes its audience on a wild journey through a post-apocalyptic future.

Fishamble: The New Play Company presents

By Eugene O'Brien

Directed by Jim Culleton

Previews begin January 11

Opening Night is January 15

Limited run through January 29

Olivier Award-winning company Fishamble returns to 59E59 Theaters as part of Origin's 1st Irish, following its previous, highly-acclaimed productions of Maz and Bricks, On Blueberry Hill, and others.

Set in County Offaly, Ireland during the weekend of a local wedding, guests Mairead and Mal are struggling to keep their marriage together. Perhaps attending a wedding will help, or it might raise questions that are difficult to answer. Heaven examines family bonds, life decisions, and the search for happiness in contemporary Ireland.

Part of Origin's 1st Irish.

Big Telly Theatre Company presents

Frankenstein's Monster is Drunk and the Sheep have all Jumped the Fences

Written and Directed by Zoe Seaton

Based on the original short story by Owen Booth

Opening Night is January 17

Limited run through January 28

A match made in horror! The story begins in 1946, when villagers dig Frankenstein's monster out of the glacier he'd crawled into after his Hollywood career gave up the ghost.

Fully defrosted, he meets "The One," igniting a love story of monstrous proportions. A duet of undateables stand out and fit in to forge their own beautiful brand of domestic bliss with their 67 (Italian) blue sheep. The comedy is pitch black and horror gets a happily ever after in this wildly fresh look at the Frankenstein myth crafted by the critically acclaimed theater mavericks, Big Telly Theatre Company, known for their bold style of immersive and rollicking entertainment.

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• 1994–1995 • 18 eps

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• Writer (1998-1999)
• 1996–1997 • 433 eps
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IBSEN'S GHOST: AN IRRESPONSIBLE BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY Presented in association with George Street Playhouse and by special arrangement with  Daryl Roth Ted Snowdon in association with Jamie deRoy Written by and starring Charles Busch Directed by Carl Andress March 2 - April 14, 2024

Written by and starring the legendary Charles Busch, Ibsen's Ghost tells a tall (and hilarious) tale of the toll a great man’s ghost takes on the women at the soul of his work.

Past Events

DIG Written and directed by Theresa Rebeck September 02 - November 05, 2023

Theresa Rebeck’s signature wit, intelligence, and depth brings us a riveting play about courage, photosynthesis, and what it means to have a soul worth saving.

Judy Gold in YES, I CAN SAY THAT! Written by Judy Gold and Eddie Sarfaty Directed by BD Wong March 04 - April 16, 2023

This wickedly funny new one-woman show is a big-mouthed and big-hearted call for truth, kindness, common sense, and most of all, laughter. 

peerless By Jiehae Park Directed by Margot Bordelon September 24 - November 6, 2022

A darkly comedic twist on Shakespeare’s Macbeth set in the cutthroat world of elite college admissions, Jiehae Park’s clever and incisive adaptation, peerless , is a comedy...until it’s not. 

ON THAT DAY IN AMSTERDAM Presented in association with Ted Snowdon By Clarence Coo Movement Direction by Jesse Kovarsky Directed by Zi Alikhan July 23 - September 4, 2022

Moved by the spirits of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Anne Frank, ON THAT DAY IN AMSTERDAM witnesses two young dreamers as they discover the meaning of art, love, and loss.

Living Room Commissions New and innovative one-acts written for the virtual world. Commissioned artists include Inda Craig-Galván , Kate Hamill , Chesney Snow , and Susan Soon He Stanton . Living Room Commissions are made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of the Primary Stages Board Commissioning Fund for BIPOC Artists.

NEW GOLDEN AGE By Karen Hartman Directed by Jade King Carroll April 28 - June 9, 2022

Two sisters face down a big tech dystopia in this thrilling revolutionary tale for today.  

UNDO THE SEA - Virtual Streaming By Jeffry Melnick Award Winner Inda Craig-Galván Directed by Jennifer Chang March 2022

A compelling virtual drama set in the here and now, UNDO THE SEA delves into the fears and frustrations of life in the age of lockdown for husband and wife duo Kim and Jaden.

BADASS GALBOSS POWER HOUR By Kate Hamill Directed by Moritz Von Stuelpnagel September 22-October 13, 2021 A brand new comedy from Kate Hamill ( PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ) that tells the chaotically comical story of pyramid schemes and opportunists embracing sisterhood as a business agenda.

THE TRIBUTE ARTIST By Charles Busch Directed by Carl Andress September 30 - October 4, 2020 Originally presented at 59E59 Theaters in 2014, THE TRIBUTE ARTIST features Charles Busch as an out-of-work female impersonator who, when his elderly landlady dies in her sleep, takes on her identity in order to hang on to her valuable Greenwich Village townhouse in this quick-witted farce.  

SOIL BENEATH: AN EMPIRICAL DECAY  Chesney Snow and Diedre Murray November 11-15, 2020 Chesney Snow joins Pulitzer finalist and Obie-winning composer Diedre Murray for his new choreopoem commissioned by Primary Stages. SOIL BENEATH:AN EMPIRICAL DECAY  is a visceral, timely, and nuanced exploration of race, class, and American political culture told through the mediums of poetry, storytelling, dance, and music.  

THE NIGHT WATCHER Written and performed by Charlayne Woodard November 18-22, 2020 Delivered with penetrating grace and candor, Woodard luminous one-woman show is a hilarious litany on the joys of children in our lives.

Pictured: Jeffrey Bean in DIG (2023) written and directed by Theresa Rebeck. Presented by Primary Stages in association with Jamie deRoy. Photo by James Leynse.

SO Jewish Comedy Night

A night with judy gold & liz glazer, saturday, december 16 at 8pm.

This light-hearted celebration of the holiday season is your chance to experience an irreverent Jewish-themed comedy night.  It will be terrifically funny, it will be in South Orange, and, indeed, it will be SO Jewish.  Liz Glazer and Judy Gold join forces in this SO Jewish night of comedy and holiday fun!

About Judy Gold

The New York Stage Review has praised comedian, actor, and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Judy Gold as “so naturally funny, her delivery and comic timing so impeccable, that belly laughs are to be had in abundance.”  Gold’s book Yes I Can Say That: When They Come For The Comedians, We Are All In Trouble (2020) discussing free speech and cancel-culture debuted as the number one comedy release on Amazon and was featured in The New York Times Book Review .  Gold’s solo comedy show Yes I Can Say That! , based on the book and directed by BD Wang, premiered in March 2023 at 59E59.   The Queer Review lauded the show, saying “Not only is it provocative, thought-provoking, and moving, it’s continually hilarious…the jokes come thick and fast…in this nuanced and at times deeply poignant piece of work.”  Gold has two Emmy Awards for writing and producing The Rosie O’Donnell Show , and she is currently a writer on the final season of Better Things .

About Liz Glazer

West Orange resident and SOPAC Creative Community Brain Trust Comedy member, Liz Glazer is an award-winning standup comedian, actor, and writer.  In 2021, she won the Ladies of Laughter Professional Comedians competition.  Her first album, A Very Particular Experience (2023), which debuted at number one on the iTunes Comedy chart, uses “dangerously sharp joke writing” ( Vanyaland Magazine) to offer up advice and solace for those who have experienced loss; the album was released on the one year anniversary of the stillbirth of Glazer and her wife’s daughter Leo Pearl.  Additionally, Glazer has won first place in the Boston Comedy Festival and opened for Myq Kaplan and Maria Bamford.  She was part of the Seattle International Comedy Competition and will be part of the upcoming HBO Women in Comedy Festival.  Drawing from her own life as a lesbian, a rabbi’s wife, and a former lawyer, Glazer uses her self-proclaimed “loud, unsecretive, and bold” style to connect with all those who simple want to FEEL.

SOPAC is committed to our mission as a community driven performing arts center that is safe and welcoming for all. For this performance, we have enhanced security and safety measures in place, including additional security staffing and South Orange police department presence. Please contact our audience services team if you have any questions or concerns.

SOPAC Member Benefits

Member Pre-Sale: Monday, June 12 at 12PM

General Public On Sale: Thursday, June 15 at 12PM

Member Discounts:  Members at the Advocate Level or higher ($65+) will receive a discounted ticket price.

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If you or a member of your party needs assistance, please notify SOPAC at the time your tickets are purchased. Contact the SOPAC Box Office at (973) 313-2787 or [email protected] .

Judy has had stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy Central and LOGO. She was a part of Netflix's Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration. She is the author of Yes I Can Say That: When They Come For The Comedians, We Are All In Trouble, a critically acclaimed book about free speech and cancel culture which debuted as the number one comedy release on Amazon and was featured in the New York Times Book Review. Judy is also host of the hit podcast, Kill Me Now with Judy Gold. Judy TV acting credits include, City On A Hill (Cassndra Kassell), FX’s Better Things (Chaya). Showtime's The First Lady (Elizabeth Read). Judy also guest stars as Sophie in the much-anticipated Apple TV+ drama series Extrapolations. Other guest stars include Hulu’s Life and Beth, and Season 2 of Peacock’s Girls 5 Eva. She has had recurring roles on Comedy Central's Awkwafina, Netflix’s Friends from College and TBS’ Search Party. Her recent film credits include Love Reconsidered and the upcoming She Came To Me, and Eternal Buzz. Judy is one of the main subjects in the Hulu documentary Hysterical. She has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show. From 1999-2010, Judy was the host of HBO’s At the Multiplex with Judy Gold. Judy also won two Emmy awards for writing and producing The Rosie O’Donnell Show. She was also a writer on the final season of Better Things. Judy has written and starred in two critically acclaimed, Off-Broadway hit shows: The Judy Show – My Life as a Sitcom (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), and 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (GLAAD Media Award – Outstanding NY Theater, Drama Desk Nomination – Actor). Judy received rave reviews as Gremio in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park all-female production of The Taming of The Shrew. She also co-starred in Off-Broadway’s Clinton! The Musical, and Disaster! The Musical. Judy has made numerous appearances on The View, The Today Show, The Drew Barrymore Show, and on MSNBC, CNN and NewsNation as free-speech advocate. She often pops up on The Food Network, but please do not mention Chopped All Stars or Rachel vs. Guy to her. Judy’s three albums, Conduct Unbecoming, Kill Me Now and Judith’s Roommate Had a Baby are available wherever you get your music. You can also check out her website, JudyGold.com or follow her on Twitter, Instagram or Tik Tok - @jewdygold

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