The Underbelly Diaries

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Aaron Berg's The Underbelly Diaries, now at the Studio Theatre at Theatre Row, tells the story of a nice Jewish boy from Canada who becomes a bodybuilder, a male stripper, and ultimately a stand-up comic. It's an unusual career trajectory, and Berg mines the comic potential of it in his frequently hilarious, autobiographically inspired solo.

The performance, directed by Dwight McFee, is structured as a loose collection of anecdotes, arranged more or less in chronological order, and accompanied by illustrative projections. There is a narrative arc that involves a move to the U.S. to live the American Dream (or not), but where Berg ends up is of less importance in the show as how he got ther[...]