At SoHo Playhouse On the surface Shell is a free wheeling, rollicking, sex comedy, but underneath the laughter it raises serious questions about gender, sexuality, love and desire. Our guide for much of the show is hockey dude Andy, the founder of B.R.O. (Breaking Reproductive Oppression). Andy leads the audience in various quizzes and questions involving their knowledge of the reproductive system and their own acts of reproductive oppression. In addition to Andy, we meet Peanut who may be...

If you’ve seen Kathryn Grody’s show The Unexpected Third, the Tik Toks, or Don’t Listen To Us, the podcast she does with her husband Mandy Patinkin and son Gideon, you will be delighted to know that speaking to her one on one is exactly as marvelous as you’d hope. Grody is refreshingly candid, completely lacking in pretension, well read, even better informed, and very, very funny. An accomplished Drama Desk Award nominated actress on stage and screen her solo show The Unexpected Third is...

Though Leslie Ayvazian started her career as an actor with appearances both on and off broadway and in film and television. She felt drawn to writing from her earliest memories. For Ayvazian, writing stories and putting them on stage is more than a job: it’s a calling. Ayvazian, whose family survived the Armenian genocide, feels a strong sense of mission to tell not only her story but to be a representative for the Armenian people. Her first show, the multi character show Nine Armenians,...