‘POTUS’ in Previews at City Theatre (Wed., 9/25/24)

POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE, by Selina Fillinger. City Theatre. Through October 13. 

The fun-loving cast of City Theatre’s ‘POTUS.’ (Photo: Kirsti Jan Hoover)

Plays reflect the times in which they’re written. The season-opener at City Theatre was written before the current election cycle gave us a woman running for president. But that may only make this wacky comedy more relevant than ever, since it parodies at least one man who actually has been president in the past, while imagining how women might endeavor to save the day in the face of a crisis. You want a play whose title says it all? Try Selina Fillinger’s POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. The feckless male POTUS himself makes no appearance onstage. Rather, all action unfolds deep in the innards of the so-called deep state, where fearless (but farcical) female associates of the meanderer-in-chief scramble to keep the people’s business from turning into total monkey business. The play premiered on Broadway in 2022. Pittsburghers can see POTUS: Etc. etc. on City Theatre’s mainstage. 7 p.m. 1300 Bingham St., South Side. (M.V.) 

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