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Written, Drawn and Performed by\u00a0Phoebe Potts,\u00a0Directed by\u00a0Christopher Griffith<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Written, Drawn and Performed by\u00a0Phoebe Potts,\u00a0Directed by\u00a0Christopher Griffith<\/p>\n
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October 6 \u2013 November 24, 2026 (8 performances)<\/p>\n
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New York (August 25, 2026) \u2013 Following a 12-city tour of the U.S., playing theaters, synagogues, and a burlesque hall,\u00a0Too Fat for China\u00a0comes to Brooklyn, New York!\u00a0Written, drawn and performed by\u00a0Phoebe Potts,\u00a0her critically-acclaimed, award-winning one-woman play is a comic look at the agonies of adoption. Winner of United Solo\u2019s \u201cBest Storytelling Show,\u201d and BroadwayWorld\u2019s \u201cBest Solo Show (2025),\u201d eight performances will now be staged on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m., October 4 through November 24, 2026, at the RAT NYC, 68 Jay Street, Suite 117 (Storefront) in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201.\u00a0Christopher Griffith\u00a0directs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A darkly funny, brutally honest, and riotous journey through the absurdities and ethical minefields of the international adoption industry,\u00a0Too Fat for China\u00a0follows Phoebe Potts, comic storyteller and professional Jew, as she tries, fails and eventually succeeds to adopt a baby. After a US adoption goes horribly wrong, Potts finds herself surprised, disgusted and ultimately resigned to the role she plays as a middle-class white lady in the business of adopting babies in the U.S. and internationally. Potts\u2019 tragicomic journey is about looking for more love, more life and more family and will do anything to get it, including having her morals and values fold in on themselves.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a mortgage to adopt a baby,\u201d shared Potts.<\/p>\n
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Performances for\u00a0Too Fat for China\u00a0are Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. on October 6, 13, 20, and 27; and November 3, 10, 17, and 24.<\/p>\n
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The runtime is 60 minutes with no intermission.<\/p>\n
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General admission tickets are $25 (includes fee). For tickets and more information,\u00a0https:\/\/www.theratnyc.com\/event-details\/too-fat-for-china-2026-10-06-18-30<\/a><\/p>\n
In addition to the show\u2019s\u00a0United Solo\u00a0and\u00a0BroadwayWorld\u00a0awards, it was named an \u201cOfficial Selection\u201d at both the Modern Works (Boston) and Logan Solo (DC) Festivals in 2025. Theater companies have rave \u201ca beautiful, funny, whip-smart telling\u2026\u201d (Alex Levy, Artistic Director at 1s Stage Theater, VA); \u201cYour show (and you) are wonderful. Everyone who came raved about it.\u201d (Catherine Carr Kelly, Managing Director at Central Square Theater in Cambridge Mass.); and \u201cFive SOLD OUT performances! Would you come back for a BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND run?\u201d (Summer Dawn Wallace, Producing Artistic Director at Urbanite Theater in Sarasota).<\/p>\n
Artwork and Set Designer:\u00a0Phoebe Potts;\u00a0\u201cCrankie\u201d Fabrication:\u00a0James Lemieux;\u00a0Costume Designer:\u00a0Jen Greeke;\u00a0Original Music: \u201cDinkenesh in the Sky with Diamonds\u201d composed and recorded by\u00a0the Abysinna Music Group, Ethiopia;\u00a0produced by\u00a0Tom Beatz.<\/p>\n
Phoebe Potts\u00a0(playwright, illustrator, performer) is a native of Brooklyn, where everyone was indignant before breakfast, Potts learned to tell stories to get her family to like her and to understand thorny issues. In\u00a0Too Fat for China,\u00a0Potts uses humor and honesty to tell the irreverent story of the terrible things she did for love. Her comedic theater performance is a sequel to Potts\u2019 graphic memoir,\u00a0Good Eggs\u00a0(Harper, 2010), which charts her travails with infertility and the endless rounds of treatments and miscarriages she and her husband endured. Roz Chast, the\u00a0New Yorker\u00a0cartoonist, called Potts\u2019 memoir \u201csometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always honest, intelligent, and completely involving.\u201d Potts\u2019 day jobs have included union organizing, public art after school programs and teaching and learning Torah with children and adults through \u201cVisual Midrash.\u201d Potts lives with her family in Gloucester, Massachusetts.\u00a0PhoebePotts.com<\/a><\/p>\n
Christopher Griffith\u00a0(director) (he\/him) is a theater producer, director, and arts executive whose work spans new play development, contemporary premieres, and institutional leadership. Over the past decade, he has produced more than 50 professional productions and led nonprofit arts organizations through periods of artistic and financial growth, raising $7 million in support of creative work and capital projects. Selected producing credits at Gloucester Stage Company include multiple Elliot Norton Awards for Best Production,\u00a0The Hombres\u00a0by Tony Meneses,\u00a0Wish You Were Here\u00a0by Sanaz Toossi,\u00a0Wipeout\u00a0by Aurora Real de Asua,\u00a0Stew\u00a0by Zora Howard,\u00a0The Thin Place\u00a0by Lucas Hnath,\u00a0Paradise Blue\u00a0by Dominique Morisseau,\u00a0Grand Horizons\u00a0by Bess Wohl, and\u00a0Too Fat For China\u00a0by Phoebe Potts.<\/p>\n
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