Ben Strothmann will star in Coming Clean, his first solo play, on Friday, June 22 at 7:00 PM and Wednesday, June 27 at 7:30 PM at the Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street, New York City) as part of the Queerly Festival. The 85-minute show was first performed in 2014 at Judson Memorial Church as part of the “Magic Time” series, and presented again in 2017 at Dixon Place as part of the theater’s HOT! Festival, the NYC Celebration of Queer Culture. Coming Clean will be directed by Mark Finley, artistic director of TOSOS.
Coming Clean traces Strothmann’s often comical and compelling journey from growing up gay in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to learning to love himself as a gay man in Manhattan. As a kid, he says he discovered he was gay when he started developing crushes on cartoon characters like Foghorn Leghorn and the Pink Panther. And then there’s the time when Strothmann openly declared his love for another boy—in first grade. As a grownup, he candidly recalls his adult adventures as New York became his “sexual playground.”
Ben Strothmann, who moved to New York in 2000, has performed as Honey LaBronx, The Vegan Drag Queen, host of a cooking show, as well as originating the podcast Big Fat Vegan Radio. Strothmann also has performed at Joe’s Pub and Birdland, sharing the bill with the likes of Broadway pros Cheyenne Jackson and John Tartaglia, and he is a proud activist for LGBTQIA+equality and Animal Rights and has been a portrait and theatrical photographer since 1995.
Tickets to Coming Clean are available online here.
For more information about Strothmann and the Kraine Theater, visit horsetrade.info or honeylabronx.com
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