Patti Issues/ Bad with Money Double Bill

Running Time: 1 Hour 50 Minutes including interval

Ben Rimalower will perform his Off-Broadway solo plays, Patti Issues (about his obsession with Broadway diva Patti LuPone and his relationship with his troubled gay father) and Bad With Money (about how an addiction to spending beyond his means has driven him to extreme lengths all his life) in double repertory bill.

Patti Issues has garnered praise from numerous high profile attendees such as Alan Cumming, Tony Kushner and Ms. LuPone herself. “The show’s fantastic,” she said. “It’s really wonderful. I was moved.”

In Bad with Money, Rimalower charts his journey through drug addiction, prostitution, fraud and multiple betrayals—a no-holds-barred self-portrait of an addict, which casts light on the last societal taboo.

Both works are written and performed by Ben Rimalower and directed by Aaron Mark.

‘A well-honed script with an engagingly spontaneous delivery and a nose for sharp, observational comedy’ The New York Times

‘Endearing, drolly written and performed with heaps of charisma.’ The New Yorker

★★★★ ‘Light, funny… vividly personal’ Time Out New York

‘courageously honest, keenly specific and emotionally naked.’ The Advocate