New York Jewish Week via JTA – After a successful Off-Broadway run, Orthodox Jewish comedian Alex Edelman will bring his one-man show “Just for Us” to Broadway this summer.
The show was sold out, starting at the Cherry Lane Theater and then moving to the Soho Playhouse and Greenwich House Theaters in 2021 and 2022. It closed on 2 September.
The show largely focuses on Edelman’s infiltration of a white supremacist meeting in Queens. At the same time, though, Edelman, 34, delves into stories from her childhood, ranging from celebrating Christmas — despite growing up in an observant Jewish family — to an unexpected visit from her brother representing Team Israel at the Winter Olympics.
Throughout the show, Edelman, who is “from a racist part of Boston called ‘Boston,'” confronts his own Jewishness and how it interacts with his whiteness, including how they interact with each other. together in the difficulties and privileges they bear at the time. In doing so, he compels his audience as well.
Edelman – who made a name for himself by harassing neo-Nazis on Twitter – has been a rising star in the world of comedy since being named “Best Newcomer” at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2014. “Just for Us” premiered at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2018 and since then, Edelman has been tweaking, tightening and tweaking aspects of the show, as he told The New York Times.
“Just for Us” won a special citation at this year’s Obie Awards, which honors off and off-Off Broadway productions. Edelman was named one of New York Jewish Week’s “36 to Watch” in 2022.
Preview performances for the Broadway run begin June 22 and the show will open June 26. It is scheduled to run for eight weeks at the Hudson Theater (141 West 44th St.), beginning after “A Doll’s House” starring Jessica Chastain and. Arian Moyed goes off. It is being produced by Jenny Gersten, Rachel Sussman and Mike Birbiglia, who also helmed the Off-Broadway production. The show will be directed by Adam Brace.
“Best and most surreal experience of my life,” Edelman wrote on Twitter of the announcement. “Couldn’t be more excited and nervous and everything everything.”
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