The Whoopi Monologues

Now playing at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, *The Whoopi Monologues* places Whoopi Goldberg in a live, music-forward setting that pulls from rock and pop idioms. The piece moves like a series of spoken portraits, using humor, candor, and lived experience to track how voice and persona get constructed in public. In a city where one-person performance has long been a proving ground, it reads as an entry in that New York lineage, even without a widely documented NYC-premiere milestone. The most telling detail is how the form stays plain, letting timing and testimony do the work.