‘Kate’ Review: Kate Berlant Navel-Gazes, Hilariously, in an Unpredictable One-Woman Show at Pasadena Playhouse
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It’s not exactly breaking news in the world of show-biz satire that actors can be vain, or insecure; it’s been mined.
But for as long as time and human consciousness still exist, there will be performers eager to wring laughter from skewering the vocation they hold dear, and audiences hungry for the piss-takes, as if they’re being let in on some trade secret.
Proof that this tradition never has to get old can currently be found at the Pasadena Playhouse, where actor/comic Kate Berlant is playing an especially navel-gazing version of herself in “Kate,” a weird and riotous one-woman show.
Fellow performers may appreciate Berlant’s marvelous cringe-binge most of all, but you don’t have to be in the business to get off on it.
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