Following a limited run in June, The Pansy Craze—the six-part series written and created by Hunter Bird and Mason Alexander Park—will offer its final three performances November 20–22 at Audible’s  Minetta Lane Theatre.

Hosted by Park, and featuring Lachlan Watson, the live performances will be directed by Bird. Each episode of The Pansy Craze will also be recorded live and released June 4, 2026, as an Audible Original. The upcoming recording is currently available for pre-order by clicking here.

The Pansy Craze blends the dazzle of a cabaret with the intimacy of a piano bar, honoring the queer icons who paved the way. Each evening unfolds through songs, sketches, and storytelling, spotlighting moments in history when queerness was celebrated, commodified, and then criminalized.

Each episode will feature a different special guest and focus on a unique moment in queer history. The final guests include Orange Is the New Black and On the Town star Lea DeLaria (November 20 in an evening titled From Codpieces to Corsets: 300 Years on London’s Wicked Stages), Take Me Out Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson (November 21 in Pansies in Primetime: Jim Bailey and the Television Revolution), and RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour (November 22 in Gender, I Hardly Know’er: The Last 35 Years in America).

In June, guests Jackie Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, and Laverne Cox joined Park on the Minetta Lane Theatre stage for The Pansy Craze’s first three episodes. 

Performer-writer Park starred in back-to-back Jamie Lloyd productions in the West End: The Tempest as Ariel and Much Ado About Nothing as Margaret. They also played The Emcee in the West End revival of Cabaret. Mason can be seen on screen as Dr. Ian Wright in NBC's Quantum Leap sequel series, Gren in the Netflix live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, Desire in The Sandman, and in Amazon's Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina.

Brooklyn-based director, writer, and theatrical creator Bird has spent over a decade developing plays, musicals, concert experiences, and more. Projects include Bronco Billy: The Musical, XY, and three plays with Manhattan Theatre Club as Lynne Meadow’s associate director. Bird's writing credits include She Reached for Heaven and The Golden Record.

The creative team includes musical director and arranger David Dabbon, scenic designer Krit Robinson, lighting designers Stacey Derosier and Betsy Chester, sound designer Cody Spencer, and production stage manager Merrick A. B. Williams with theatrical supervision by Beacon Theatrical Services and general management by ShowTown Theatricals.

Audible Theater and Rachel Brosnahan’s Scrap Paper Pictures produce.

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