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“CRITIC’S PICK! A CULTURAL PHENOMENON. A brisk, smart provocation…and a belly laugh funny show!” – The New York Times

“Superb! JUST FOR US has been chiseled to diamond-cut perfection. It’s a joyous, uproarious 90-minute show from one of the funniest minds of this generation – or any generation.”  – The Washington Post

ATLANTA, GA (December 1, 2023) – Following critically-acclaimed engagements on Broadway and around the globe, OBIE Award–winning writer and performer Alex Edelman will bring his award–winning solo show, JUST FOR US, to Alliance Theatre’s Coca-Cola Stage for a limited engagement. Directed by Adam Brace, JUST FOR US will run Friday, January 5 through Sunday, January 7, 2024.  

Expertly crafted by one of comedy’s most distinctive voices, this singular theatrical experience is an exploration of identity and our collective capacity for empathy—and it’s also “belly-laugh funny!” (The New York Times). In the wake of a string of anti-Semitic rhetoric pointed in his direction online, standup comic Edelman decides to go straight to the source; specifically, Queens, where he covertly attends a meeting of White Nationalists and comes face-to-face with the people behind the keyboards. What happens next forms the backbone of the shockingly relevant, utterly hilarious, and only moderately perspirant stories that comprise JUST FOR US. 

 

“Alex Edelman has done the impossible.  He took a harrowing personal story of hate and created one of the funniest shows of recent memory,” said Tinashe Kajese-Bolden and Christopher Moses, Alliance Theatre’s Jennings Hertz Artistic Directors. “Equal parts comedy and social critique, as comedic as it is courageous, JUST FOR US is a personal story that exposes the folly of hate and mines the depths of compassion.  At a time when antisemitism is tragically on the rise, Alex’s voice is one we desperately need to hear.  We couldn’t be prouder to share this story with the Atlanta community.”

 

JUST FOR US landed on Broadway following acclaimed international runs in London, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Boston, and Washington D.C., as well as a six-time extended off-Broadway engagement acrossthree venues in New York City. The show earned a“Critic’s Pick” from The New York Times, a 2023 Obie Award, and Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. The New Yorker raved that JUST FOR US is “Uproarious & tremendously entertaining!” The Washington Post proclaimed, “It’s the summer of Alex! The superb JUST FOR US has been chiseled to diamond-cut perfection.” The New York Times described the show as a “cultural phenomenon,” and “a brisk, smart provocation of a monologue,” and Time Outhailed the show as, “A portrait of the entertainer as ayoung Jewish man in a polarized society…without pulling any punchlines. Despite the incendiary issues lurking at the edges of his tale, JUST FOR US is focused on comedy. The laughs are plentiful.” The Guardian deemed the show “Exquisitely crafted and deliciously funny,” and The Telegraph exalted that Edelman is, “one of the most distinctive comic voices of his generation. This is funny, often charmingly self-deprecating writing, delivered with infectious confidence and exuberance and building to a real cracker of a last line. Highly recommended.”

 

JUST FOR US was originally produced Off-Broadwayby Mike Birbiglia in association with Mike Lavoie, Carlee Briglia, and Joseph Birbiglia.

Tickets are on sale to members now and will go on sale to non-members ($35 – $125) beginning Monday, December 4, at 10:00am.  Tickets are available at the Alliance Theatre Box Office by calling 404.733.4600.  Tickets are also available online atwww.alliancetheatre.org.

 

VENUE INFORMATION:

The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre

Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building

1280 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309