Judy Gold examines her life through her favorite sitcoms in new one-woman show (photo by T Charles Erickson)
MY LIFE AS A SITCOM
DR2 Theatre
103 East 15th St. at 20 Union Sq. East
Through September 1, $65
www.judygold.com
With all of the stand-up comics who have had their own sitcoms over the last several decades, it seems like Judy Gold’s life would make for one great show. The six-foot-three Jewish lesbian mother of two boys, who met her current girlfriend, a Jewish therapist from Rochester, in a magazine singles column, has won two Daytime Emmys for writing and producing The Rosie O’Donnell Show, staged her own one-woman success, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, and recently appeared on Broadway in Love, Loss, and What I Wore. But still no sitcom. So she’s taken matters into her own hands with her solo play, The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom. Running through September 10 at the DR2 Theatre in Union Square, the eighty-minute production examines Gold’s life through the lens of her obsession with the sitcoms of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s.
TICKET GIVEAWAY: We have four pairs of tickets to The Judy Show to give away for free. To be eligible to win, just send your name, daytime phone number, and all-time favorite sitcom to contest@twi-ny.com by Wednesday, July 20, at 5:00 pm. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; four winners will be selected at random. Enter now to see if you will strike gold!