PLAYGIRL New York Performances

Now at UCB Theatre, PLAYGIRL is a comedy show that borrows the title’s cultural charge from the once-notorious magazine while shifting the focus to performance and voice. Built around Edi Patterson’s sensibility as an actress and writer, it draws on the character work that has defined her screen roles and retools it for a live room. In New York, the piece reads as part of the city’s ongoing conversation about gender, gaze, and who gets framed as spectacle. Its sharpest move is treating that history as material rather than nostalgia.