POTUS Embraces Everything From Farce to Political Satire by Bill Hirschman

Timing, of course, is a crucial element in comedy. But it doesn’t hurt that it occurs when the social-political world around you conveniently coincides as it dies in Zoetic Stage's hysteri…

Theatre Review: ‘POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive’ at NextStop Theatre Company by Alyssa Mutterperl

With the upcoming election less than a month away, NextStop Theatre Company seized the opportunity to present Selina Fillinger’s unyielding political-comedy “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Grea…

The Arden Theatre presents Selina Fillinger’s POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive by Cameron Kelsall

A lack of laughs and reliance on stereotyping hampers the feminist farce POTUS, now onstage at the Arden. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Keeping POTUS alive isn’t as easy as it sounds in Curious Theatre’s season 27 opener | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

The All-Female “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive ” is timely and a surprising respite.

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‘Something Clean’ is compelling in its regional premiere at Dobama by Alan Smason

By ROY BERKO Northwestern grad, Selina Fillinger, was the first Judith Barlow Prize winner, an annual student award given to work inspired by a historic female playwright.  “In 2019, her …

Theatre Review: ‘POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive’ at City of Fairfax Theatre Company by Jeannette Mulherin

City of Fairfax Theatre Company’s current production of “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive,” features witty dialogue, a creative set, and a…

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive by Steven Morris

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‘A Quick 5’ with Heather Plank, Actor, ‘POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive’ at the City of Fairfax by Susan Brall

Starting February 2, 2024, the City of Fairfax Theatre Company will be performing “POTUS” by Selina Fillinger. It is directed by Jack Lockrem and produced by Amanda Herman Snellings and …

Hail to the Chief: A Review of “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive” at Steppenwolf by Ted C. Fishman

The title character of the President of the United States never appears in "POTUS," a riotous political farce with an all-women cast. The comedy does, however, begin with a crisis he created.

Video: First Look at All New Clips From POTUS at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

 Steppenwolf Theatre Company has released all new video footage from the Chicago premiere of Selina Fillinger’s outrageous farce POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women…

A rollicking ‘POTUS’ kicks dumbass at Arena Stage by D.r. Lewis

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive opens with a single, shocking utterance of the C-word. Yes, that C-word (or an adjectival variation of it, at l…

Photos: First Look at POTUS at Arena Stage

All new photos have been released from POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Check out th…

“POTUS” Sports White House Crew of Talented Comedic Women—at Berkeley Rep by Erin Weitzman

Millennial Notes Selina Fillinger Shocks US, Humors US, Makes US Think by Erin Weitzman While the U.S.  has yet to elect a female president, “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Sev…

Women in the White House make for a crude, funny POTUS at Berkeley Rep by Chad Jones

ABOVE: (from left) Stephanie Styles is Dusty, Deirdre Lovejoy is Harriet, Kim Blanck is Jean and Allison Guinn is Bernadette in Selina Fillinger’s feminist satire POTUS: Or, Behind Every G…

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

Concord Theatricals Acquires Licensing Rights for POTUS

Concord Theatricals has secured exclusive worldwide English language stage licensing rights to Selina Fillinger’s POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him…

Look Inside Final Broadway Performance of POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive by Heather Gershonowitz

The political farce ended its run at the Shubert Theatre August 14.

A Life in the Theatre: Julie White of POTUS, The Little Dog Laughed, and Airline Highway by Margaret Hall

White just completed her run as Harriet, the overworked Chief of Staff in Broadway's POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.

Broadway Grosses: Tony-Winning Smash Hamilton Celebrates Seven Years by Lindsey Sullivan

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Hamilton celebrated seven years since it opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on August 6, 2015. While the musical can be viewed…

‘POTUS’ to be filmed on Broadway on Aug. 2 by Caitlin Hornik

“POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive” will be filmed on Aug. 2 for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the …

Broadway Grosses: Tony-Winning Company Revival Ends the Party Strong by Lindsey Sullivan

Marianne Elliott's production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company closed at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on July 31, and audienced flocked to take in its final week. The product…

Broadway Grosses: Audiences Rush to See Stranger Things' Gaten Matarazzo in Dear Evan Hansen by Caitlin Moynihan

Tony-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen, which is in its final two months on Broadway, is back in the top five thanks audiences rushing to catch Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo's first …

Broadway Grosses: Audiences Spellbound by Summer's Into the Woods by Lindsey Sullivan

Fans of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods are well-aware that the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn and the slipper as pure as gold …

Why POTUS Might Be For You by Christian Lewis

The Broadway Applause Series Salutes POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.

Audience at POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE On Broadway React In Light Of Roe V. Wade Overturn

Last night, audiences reacted strongly to dialogue that states 'affordable safe reproductive healthcare is a basic human right'.

Hilarity back on Broadway in POTUS by Cogency

In these trying times (do I sound like a politician yet?), we could all use a good laugh. Broadway isn’t always hospitable to farces, not since The Play That Goes Wrong opened in 2017 ha…

Phylicia Rashad Wins Second Tony Award for Skeleton Crew by Lindsey Sullivan

Phylicia Rashad earned her second Tony Award for her performance in Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew. The win was announced at the 2022 Tony Awards ceremony on June 12 at Radio City Mus…

AND THE WINNER IS… by Ron Fassler

Jaquel Spivey, John-Michael Lyles and James Jackson, Jr. at the first Broadway preview curtain call for “A Strange Loop” (Photo: Jeenah Moon for The New York Times).I’ve been handicap…

Broadway Grosses: Take Me Out Brings in Audiences During Final Weeks by Lindsey Sullivan

Play ball! Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg's play about baseball and unspoken prejudices is Tony-nominated for Best Play Revival and for stars Jesse Williams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Michae…

Debbie Downer No More! Rachel Dratch on Tony Award Nomination for the 'Joy Bomb' POTUS by Broadway.com

Broadway's biggest night is just days away, and The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal is celebrating first-time Tony nominees. Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek sat down with Gir…