{"id":347368,"date":"2026-09-15T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347368\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:18:13","slug":"new-solo-comedy-love-me-by-drew-michael-to-open-in-nyc-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347368\/","title":{"rendered":"New solo comedy &#8216;Love Me,&#8217; by Drew Michael, to open in NYC this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy Award-nominated comedian Drew Michael (Saturday Night Live) will bring his solo comedy show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/48063-love-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Love Me<\/a> off Broadway to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/venues\/soho-playhouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoHo Playhouse<\/a> from October 24 to November 22 only.<\/p>\n<p>Michael shares a five-chapter, five-relationship story of his lifelong journey to find love using immersive headphones and all-encompassing sound design. Peabody Award winner and Michael&#8217;s longtime collaborator Prashanth Venkataramanujam (Bill Nye Saves the World, White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner) directs.<\/p>\n<p>The creative team also includes sound designer Daniel Kluger and visual access engineer Chelsea Zalikowski.<\/p>\n<p>Love Me had an acclaimed 2023 run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and is now presented as part of the 2026 New York Comedy Festival. The production marks Michael&#8217;s Off-Broadway debut after he came onto the comedy scene with the HBO specials Drew Michael: Drew Michael and Drew Michael: Red Blue Green.<\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/48063-love-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Love Me tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Drew Michael. (Photo by Elizabeth Viggiano)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmy Award-nominated comedian Drew Michael (Saturday Night Live) will bring his solo comedy show Love Me off Broadway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-347368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}