“There Is No Good News Around Roe in 2022”: Alison Leiby on Performing Oh God, a Show About Abortion

Alison Leiby stars in this year’s breakout comedy performance, Oh God, a Show About Abortion. It’s a 70-minute rumination on what happened when she found out she was pregnant—at the age of 35, by someone she was not in a relationship with—while on tour in Missouri in 2019. Maybe asking what happened makes it sound suspenseful, but the whole point is that it’s not: Leiby, who has performed for 12 years and written for shows like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, returned to New York to have an abortion. But the show, which she’s been performing since early 2020, has taken… Read Full Article