This Is It
This Is It is an existential delight performed by Tamara Hickey, directed by Kate Kohler Amory and co-written by the two women. The...
Latest Reviews
Jackie Leon
- Nov 22
Mercedes and Zaruhi
Mercedes and Zaruhi is written by award-winning playwright Anush Aslibekyan and translated, performed, and directed by award-winning...
Jackie Leon
- Nov 19
self-made martyr
self-made martyr, written and performed by Hannah Burke, is a show rich with existentialism and experimentation. Burke invites the...
Carmen Burbridge
- Nov 16
The Lion the Witch and the Walk-in Closet
The Lion the Witch and the Walk-in Closet is a solo show written and performed by Kristy Z. Beauvais and directed and developed by...
Stephanie Eagan
- Nov 15
Confusion
Hank Curry presents three characters in his solo mime performance, Confusion, who are vexed by the little things that sometimes get under...
Stephanie Eagan
- Nov 12
Doing Time with Lavinia
Ms. Lavinia Draper is a star. Sure, tonight she's being held in a south Florida jail cell for misbehaving at a bar, but come on, she just...
Cynthia Darling
- Nov 10
Terrible, Thanks for Asking
Nora McInerny arrives on stage wearing a hot pink suit with a black sequined halter top underneath. Her tall stature, pink hair, and...
Stephanie Eagan
- Nov 4
Fingernails in the Side of the Cliff
Fingernails in the Side of the Cliff is Tina deVaron’s solo show about being the daughter of world-renowned conductor Lorna Cooke...
Stephanie Eagan
- Nov 4
Rag Head
A play inspired by a mass shooting sounds like a tough sell. On August 5, 2012, a white supremacist went into a Sikh temple in Oak Creek,...
Stephanie Eagan
- Oct 30
La Divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas
"I am a woman and a serious artist, and I want to be judged as such." So begins La Divina, with Shelley Cooper as the 20th-century opera...
Stephanie Eagan
- Oct 30
By the Light
By the Light is the story of a young man named Joe who leaves home to join the circus. Joe (Michael Irvin Pollard) enters the stage from...
Stephanie Eagan
- Oct 30
Becoming a Woman
In Becoming a Woman, Rachel Frost tells her personal story of an up-and-coming actor struggling with femininity, family and aging in the...
Stephanie Eagan
- Oct 29
Hold On Tight
Meg Flather wrote the solo musical Hold on Tight about caring for her mother, who had dementia. Flather tells her story through monologue...
Stephanie Eagan
- Oct 28
Good Medicine
Good Medicine is billed as an interactive satire. The audience is immediately welcomed into a 19th-century revival tent by the Reverend...
Stephanie Eagan
- Oct 26
Odd Man Out
Odd Man Out opens with maniacal laughter in the darkness. The lights go up and a man sits in a chair: he is gray and dressed in somewhat...
Carmen Burbridge
- Sep 17
Let Me Cook for You
Let Me Cook for You is an epic solo trilogy written and performed by Orietta Crispino and directed by Liza Cassidy. The show begins in...
Yani Perez
- Aug 31
Debbie Gibson: Out of the Blue 35th Anniversary
Debbie Gibson is iconic! Her performance at 54 Below last week was superb. Her set was a tribute to the 35th Anniversary of her album Out...
Yani Perez
- Aug 24
Salt
Salt is part of the New Ohio Theatre's Ice Factory 2022 Festival that opened this summer. This short "operatic monologue" is darkly...
Interviews
Yani Perez
- Sep 13
Interview with Ann Talman
Ann Talman returns to 54 Below with her show The Shadow of Her Smile this September. All About Solo had the pleasure of asking her a few...
Lauren Wiener
- Feb 12, 2020
In Love with New York, an Interview with Noah Diamond
Noah Diamond is best known for his performances as Groucho Marx, including in the acclaimed 2016 revival of “I’ll Say She Is.” But before...
Lauren Wiener
- Jan 14, 2020
The Show Must Go On, an Interview with Farley Cadena
Farley Cadena is a vivacious and beloved musical theatre actress, well known for her wickedly funny performances in “The Producers,”...
News
All About Solo News Desk
- Nov 21
United Solo Closes 2022 Season With Awards Gala For Many
In the culmination of a seven-week run that featured over seventy-one-person theatre productions from across the globe, the world’s...
United Solo Theatre Festival Announces Nominees for the 2022 Special Award
United Solo is pleased to announce the nominees for their thirteenth annual Special Award, presented each year to an outstanding solo...
Zofia Gwiaździńska
- Oct 9
United Solo Theatre Festival 2022
From October 3rd through November 20th, the world's largest solo theatre festival will take place at Theatre Row in New York City. The...