Overview
- Produced by:
- Twilight Theatre Co.
- Dates:
- July 08 - July 16, 2026
- Run Time:
- 1 Hour, 0 Minute
- Intermission:
- No
- Theater:
- Showing in Theater
Show Info
By Brian Dykstra
Directed by Margarett Perry
With Mark Boyett and Brian Dykstra
Who's On First meets Waiting for Godot in this ferociously witty play on, about, and spilling over with language. Rusty and Max have been friends for most of their lives and they've been arguing almost the entire time. Today, they're scheming up something big. Fringe First winner Brian Dykstra's signature style crackles in this uproarious backyard comedy.
Part of 59E59 Theaters' East to Edinburgh 2026
Producing Company
Twilight Theater Co.
Brian Dykstra (Playwright/Actor) is an actor, playwright and HBO def Poet. Broadway: Lucky Guy, Great Society. Regional: Polishing Shakespeare (Grant), Jerusalem (Rooster Byron), Red (Mark Rothko), King John (King John), A Doll’s House Part 2 (Torvald), All The Way (LBJ). Playwright: Not Nobody, Polishing Shakespeare, A Play On Words, Education, Clean Alternatives (all at 59E59), Hiding Behind Comets, Silence, Strangerhorse, etc.
Margarett Perry (Director) is an award-winning director of new plays, directing and developing plays Off Broadway and in regional theaters across the country and in Scotland and London. She's the artistic director of Twilight Theatre Co. (Not Nobody, Polishing Shakespeare, Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project, A Special Relationship). She is a regular at the Kitchen Theatre Company where she has helmed over 25 productions.
Mark Boyett (Actor) was previously at the Edinburgh Fringe in Plotters and Clean Alternatives (Fringe First). Favorite regional theater roles: George (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf), Farquaad (Shrek), Jane/Edgar (Mystery of Irma Vep), Renfield (Dracula). Mark is an Audie Award-winning narrator with 350+ audiobooks at Audible.com. TV/Film includes The Gilded Age (Mr. Crowther) and The Tender Bar (dir. George Clooney).
Reviews
"Nonstop Laughter! Ferociously Witty! A gripping experience from start to finish." – The Ithacan
"Fierce and Funny!" – TheaterMania
"Corrosively funny! A loony, lovable paean to absurdism." – Backstage (Critics Pick)
"Striking riffs for Mr. Boyett, an excellent actor with crack timing, who can reel off long, tongue-twisting speeches that gain in speed and virtuosity" – New York Times
"It's a wild ride… Boyett and Dykstra deliver fast pitches, slow balls, line drives, bunts and all manner of base-stealing. Let's put it this way: if a great sports contest could be waged with words, Dykstra, Boyett and Perry would be in the majors." – Tompkins Weekly
"Dykstra outdoes himself here. The rapidity and studied verbal miscues will remind old timers of classic Abbott and Costello routines, but the dissection of everyday expression sounds like vintage George Carlin." – Syracuse New Times
"Dykstra and Boyett give impeccable performances! This is a very funny play! An astonishing sort-of stream-of-consciousness path that leads very purposefully to a place Dykstra intends to take us—a place where we're forced to confront the obfuscations and incendiariness of the words people in power hurl at us." – New York Theatre, Critic's Pick
Schedule & Tickets
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- Wednesday, July 8, 2026 at 6:30PMSOLD OUT
- Sunday, July 12, 2026 at 4:30PMSOLD OUT
- Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 8:30PMGet Tickets