Alex Edelman’s Just For Us
Opening Night: June 26, 2023
Theater: Hudson Theatre
Website: www.justforusshow.com
In the wake of a string of anti-Semitic threats 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.
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June 26, 2023
Despite its rabbi-on-Ritalin aesthetic, and its desperation to be liked at all costs, the show is so thoughtful and high-minded it comes with a mission statement.
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June 26, 2023
And while that hypothesis proves wholly untrue for them, you will be happy you’ve met the man. He and his triumphant solo show are, indeed, just for us.
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June 26, 2023
A stand-up comedy routine without the usual visual and special-effects embellishments that accompany trips to Broadway, Just For Us lands on the theatrical stage with no need for anything but sheer story-telling bravado, energetic direction (by the late Adam Brace, with Alex Timbers credited as creative consultant) and a terrific yarn.
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June 26, 2023
To audiences at the Hudson Theatre, Edelman’s college-buddy congeniality is the key to this 75-minute narrative set. How else could a nice Jewish boy walk into a meetup of white supremacists and turn his experience into hilarious social commentary?
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June 26, 2023
It says much about the genius—and Alex Edelman’s rollicking, must-see Broadway debut show Just for Us (Hudson Theatre, to Aug 19) is a work of true genius—that at the end of this superlative 75-minute solo comedy show, after his identity as a Jew has been revealed to the group of New York City Nazis whose evening meeting he has infiltrated, that their boiling-over anger at his subterfuge and his eventual ejection from the room leaves him feeling downcast.
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June 26, 2023
In a moment in time when we’re constantly prodded with fear and earnest pleas about love and empathy, Just for Us reminds us of humanity’s silliest tendencies — which are also mercifully toothless.
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June 26, 2023
Enter now Alex Edelman, a Jewish comedian of a much-younger generation whose very funny new solo show at the Hudson Theatre, “Just For Us,” has one foot in that great Mason history and another in the tradition of Mike Birbiglia, another cheerfully geeky Broadway performer who is generally seen as more of a storyteller than merely someone who stands up and cracks jokes.
READ THE REVIEWJune 26, 2023
Did you hear the one about the Orthodox Jewish standup comedian who crashes a meeting of white supremacists and turns the incident into the nucleus of his one-man show that’s now on Broadway? That’s the two-second backstory of Alex Edelman’s tangy, topical, and, best of all, laugh-out-loud solo work, Just for Us. It’s that rare theatrical production that doesn’t just live up to the hype — it exceeds it.
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June 26, 2023
On Broadway, it’s the summer of Alex. Edelman, that is. As the headliner of “Just for Us,” Edelman confirms he’s one of the funniest minds of his generation. Or maybe any generation.
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