Performance

Honest Woman: Up Close

2 upcoming performances in New York

“Honest Woman: Up Close” brings Carly Pearce to the Gramercy Theatre for an intimate New York City engagement that frames country songwriting as reportage. The set leans on first-person narratives shaped by small-town detail, adult compromise, and the quiet arithmetic of heartbreak. In a city where country often arrives as a touring export, the evening reads as a reminder of how the genre travels through rooms, not arenas. Pearce’s plainspoken delivery makes the craft—structure, phrasing, restraint—easy to hear.