Although City Solo is not a PianoFight show (Off-Market is presenting this one) we really dig the producers Thao P. Nguyen and Nicole Maxali and the killer performers they line-up each month. Basically, City Solo is a culturally diverse collection of solo artists performing excerpts from their own full-length shows, and by diverse, we really do mean diverse. Last month performers ranged from Jawad Ali talking about his recent trip to Pakistan to help out after a pretty massive earthquake destroyed quite a bit, to comic Mary Van Note who deadpanned the following line every night: “So last night I came so hard I passed out.”

This month features another all new line-up consisting of Lambeth Sterling, David Allan Moss, Zahra Noorbakhsh and Erica Lutz who hit on themes ranging from atheism to dating to clowning to becoming a widow. Oddly enough, a few weeks ago, stand-up legend Dave Chappelle came to Off-Market to check it out (he and Nicole are buddies and Nicole’s opened for him a few times). Here’s how Mr. Chappelle described the show: “City Solo at Off-Market is like an adventure, it’s funny then heartfelt then funny again. I’ve never seen solo shows done like that before.” Crazy right? Dave Chappelle was hanging out in our theater – pic below:

To get tickets to City Solo, click here, and for a more detailed description of performers and their pieces click here. To tell us how much you love Dave Chappelle, please leave a comment below.

Posted January 2, 2010 at 6:14 pm