
Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen & Charles Busch
February 10, 2025
Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. In this live recording, Randy Cohen will speak with Charles Busch about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to him. The result? Surprising stories from a great talker.
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy Awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote The Ethicist, a weekly column for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.
Charles Busch has forged a unique place in the world of entertainment as playwright, actor, director, novelist, cabaret performer and drag icon. He is the author and star of over twenty-five plays including The Divine Sister, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, The Tribute Artist, The Confession of Lily Dare, and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; one of the longest running plays in the history of Off-Broadway. His play The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife ran for 777 performances on Broadway, won the Outer Circle Critics’ John L. Gassner Award for playwrighting, received a Tony® nomination for Best Play and is the longest running Broadway comedy of the past twenty-five years. He is a two-time MAC Award winner, a Bistro Award Honoree and has performed his cabaret act in many cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, London, Paris, Barcelona and New York. In winter of 2016, his show The Lady at the Mic premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. Charles was among the 2024 inductees in New York’s Theater Hall of Fame.
Photo courtesy of Marlene Meyerson JCC
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Pricing
- Free event for Patron Program and 54 Below Members.
- Tickets may be available for the general public closer to the engagement. To join the waitlist, contact our box office at boxoffice@54below.org
- Light refreshments will be served.