“It Ends With Guinea Pigs” closed the United Solo Festival with force and unusual charm. Diana Gitelman delivers a performance that moves through hope, love, defeat, and perseverance with a confidence that makes even the strangest material feel inevitable. The show begins in a way that seems almost deliberately confusing. The concept feels too odd to hold. Yet the chaos becomes its own language, and the tale of guinea pigs slowly reveals itself as an entry point into generational trauma....

Bill Hartung’s “I Get No Respect” arrives as one of the most unexpectedly eye-opening political comedy shows to land in New York this season. Hartung strips the foreign policy world of its jargon and pretension and replaces it with something far more dangerous: the truth, told plainly and with a sense of humor sharp enough to cut through years of professional frustration. The show works because Hartung refuses to mythologize himself. Instead, he leans into the idea of being a failed pundit...

“In the Elevator” is a sharp and unsettling dive into the interior life of a man who carries more turmoil than he ever shows to the world. Ika Gogoladze delivers a performance that is both explosive and deeply controlled. He commits to the character with a level of precision that makes every gesture feel charged. The piece unfolds like a storm. The old saying "when it rains, it pours" feels engineered for this production. Minutes compress into seconds as the character ricochets between anger,...