Adam Smith’s Partyboy feels less like a play than an absurd, hilarious conversation with the audience. Framed around Smith’s attempt to learn how to throw better parties, the show quickly becomes an intensely interactive experiment in connection. Audience members are asked to play rock, paper, scissors with strangers, offer up knock-knock jokes, and turn to their neighbors to decide which of them is more likely to be vulnerable in public.
The tone of the show flips on a dime. One moment, Smith...
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Writer-performer Brian Leonard confronts the difficulties of raising a troubled child while exploring the wounds of his own complicated childhood in his one-man show Therapist Zero. Part stand-up, part dramatic monologue, the show draws steady laughter from the audience, but lands most powerfully in its quieter moments of vulnerability, especially when Leonard opens up about his absent parents and the severe neglect he experienced as a child. Unfortunately, those vulnerable moments are few and fa...
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