Suzie with a Z: Suzie Toot One Woman Show New York Performances

Now playing at City Winery NYC, “Suzie with a Z: Suzie Toot One Woman Show” brings together Suzie Kerstgens, the German singer and lyricist known for co-founding the pop band Klee, and Benjamin Shaevitz in drag as Suzie Toot. The evening moves between rock/pop songcraft and theatrical drag performance, using persona and pop structure to test how identity can be staged and revised in real time. If this marks the project’s first New York run, it reads as a small cultural import: European indie-pop history reframed through a downtown cabaret lens. The most telling detail is the bill itself, which treats collaboration as the subject rather than the garnish.