Boston audiences will have the chance to experience a performance that’s "unlike anything they’ve seen before" when "Broad Comedy" comes to the Stuart Street Playhouse in March.

Winner of Best of Vancouver Fringe Fest 2005 and described as "Jon Stewart meets 'Saturday Night Live' meets 'The Vagina Monologues,'" "Broad Comedy" will play Saturday evenings beginning March 4.

They’re savvy, irreverent, and they’re probably being followed by Karl Rove in a big black Hummer. These are the women who skewer the Bush White House with the crowd-pleasing favorite: “The United States Extreme Right Wing Cheerleading Squad.”

In "Broad Comedy," nothing is sacred, except an unflinching look at politicos, women, men, fertilization, corporate shenanigans, and the real desperate housewives of America.

The spicy gumbo of sketches and up-to-the-news-cycle musical numbers include high energy bits like: “The Active Egg” featuring a giant ovum interviewing several sperm for the job, “I Hear What You’re Saying,” a spoof of male-sensitivity training, and with an "Oklahoma" flavor, “The Pro-Life & The Pro-Choice Should Be Friends."

"Broad Comedy" Director and founding member, Katie Goodman is the Co-Artistic Director of the Equinox Theatre Company in Bozeman, Montana, and a founding member of Spontaneous Combustibles Improvisational Comedy Troupe, another nationally touring company. She was one of the founders and the Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Women's Theatre Festival as well as the founder of the National Women's Theatre Festival in Los Angeles.

For tickets and information, stop by the box office at 200 Stuart Street or call 800-447-7400. 

-- OnStage Boston

02/05/06