Fanatical Optimism — written and performed by Adam LeBow — will play for four performances as part of the annual New York City Fringe Festival. This compelling solo show is a comic rant, a heartfelt lament, and an earnest confession rolled into one, in which Adam looks at the state of the world and asks, ‘how did my generation allow it to get this way?’ Confronting our current “polycrisis” can feel overwhelming; Adam processes it all in a way that is as entertaining as it is insightful.