PUTNEY, Vt. – Next Stage Arts is thrilled to welcome back award-winning comedian and storyteller Adam Strauss for a special two-night engagement, featuring two of his acclaimed solo shows: “The Mushroom Cure” on Friday, Jan. 9; and “Before I Forget” on Saturday, Jan. 10.
Tickets and details are available at www.nextstagearts.org.
“The Mushroom Cure” is a hilarious and moving true story of psychedelics, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and finding hope. “The Mushroom Cure” follows Strauss’ real-life attempt to treat his debilitating OCD with psychedelics. The New York Times praised it for “mining a great deal of laughter from disabling pain.” The Chicago Tribune called it “arrestingly honest and howlingly funny.” Bestselling author Michael Pollan described it as “brilliant, hilarious, and moving.” Time Out New York named it a Critics’ Pick, hailing it as “a true-life tour de force.”
In “Before I Forget,” Strauss takes audiences on a wildly inventive odyssey through memory, mortality, and meaning, tackling everything from ancient Greece to artificial intelligence, Alzheimer’s to open relationships. It’s a ferociously funny meditation on what it means to remember, what it means to forget, and the impossibility of getting life right. Warning: May contain mushrooms, existential dread, and trace amounts of hope.
Strauss is an award-winning comedian and storyteller whose work has been praised for its honesty, humor, and originality. He won the New York Fringe Festival’s Overall Excellence Award for Solo Performance, the Eddy Award for Best Solo Show in San Francisco, and the Leffe Beer Craft Your Character Storytelling Competition. Strauss performs regularly at many of New York City’s top comedy clubs.