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Andrew Vo
August 28, 2024 7:32 pm
Super fun and Terry Baum does an amazing job weaving this story of queer history
Denise Dee
August 26, 2024 5:27 pm
The audience was enraptured by Terry Baum’s story. So much so that some couldn’t wait to voice their own experiences and started telling them to their seatmates.
I was most intrigued by the sections on Terry’s creation of and participation in women’s and lesbian art communities.
Powerful to have Terry take to the stage to give us the wisdom, pain, humor and liberation of both her and her community over a span of 50+ years.
I understand that if a performer is too much in their own feelings, it doesn’t allow space for their audience to have theirs. That said, Terry in one of the most pivotal moments of LS let us see and experience YOU feeling your anger.
Shoshana Dembitz
August 26, 2024 4:18 am
I loved seeing Lesbo Solo starring Terry Baum this afternoon. I especially enjoyed the way she tied it together. First, she depicted her love for her high school English teacher, who was afraid of being fired because people had whispered that she was a lesbian. At the end of the monologue, she described in middle age visiting a queer synagogue near her childhood home in Los Angeles and finding that the most celebrated congregant was that same high school teacher now 85 years old, who was in fact lesbian. I look forward to seeing more shows by Terry Baum.
Mike W
August 26, 2024 3:17 am
It didn’t match the program description.But it was the best thing I’ve seen in years. Packing so much of her life journey into a captivating hour of humor and inspiring drama.
Chris D
August 26, 2024 12:53 am
Terry Baum wove an amazing story of her queer history and she was spectacular! Thank you Terry and Exit Theatre!
L. S. Burges
August 26, 2024 12:28 am
If “Lesbo Solo” had just been a well-crafted, beautifully written and performed show with just the right balance of history, humor, and personal narrative, that would have been enough. But what we saw today went way beyond that. To know that Terry lived this history, to see the evolution of her self-acceptance and the joy she has found in her identity, to appreciate the way she took her parents to task for their denigration of you…at the end, I had tears in my eyes. Terry demonstrated for us today the transformative power of theater.Thank you so much, Terry, for your work, your humor, your vision, your life.
Leigh McLellan
August 26, 2024 12:27 am
Great fun to relive the past with Terry’s Lesbo Solo. I saw her march/prance in the Pride Parade! Wonderfully performed!
Andrea
August 25, 2024 6:16 am
Terry Baum — as always charming, goofy and artful — tells her personal tale and the story of a movement. Funny and surprisingly touching.
Rick French
August 16, 2024 8:53 pm
After seeing Terry in Lesbo Solo, I realized that there are so many layers in a person’s personality. Terry lays it all out there with laughs, some history of the beginning of the gay movement, and her commitment and contribution to it. All in all, it was engaging and fun and a great joy to see Terry in a totally different light, than before. It was a fast hour, leaving me wanting more. I highly recommend it.
Lisa
August 15, 2024 8:16 pm
You will laugh and cry happy catharsis tears. Terry Baum never promised this aloud, but my takeaway from listening to her 60 years-in-60-minutes lesbian coming-out and coming-of-age story was that everything was gonna be okay.
Lesbian love stories from before the internet was a thing are giving me all the warm fuzzies. They don’t teach queer stories like this in school or in most media but I wish they did!
Lisa
August 12, 2024 8:12 pm
This was my first lesbian history lesson and I want everyone, but especially every bisexual, pansexual, demisexual, queer, lesbian person to see it too.
Also, honestly, take your kids/teenagers to see this play. It’s got a few sex education moments for sure but it’s all about the stories and coming-of-age and self-love narrative. When sex is referenced in the story, IMHO it never is used as spectacle or to a pornographic effect, the sex tells the story about finding freedom and self-love.
Lisa
August 12, 2024 8:08 pm
From one queer to another: take your chosen family to hear Terry Baum (aka your new lesbian grandma) tell you about the high school teacher she “just adored, she was so talented!,” the leather dyke guardian angel who roared away with her to dinner (chest to back on the motorcycle) to tell her to quit it with the internalized homophobia, and the self-love of marching in the pride parade wearing a dildo hat and phallic vegetables.
Terry Baum
August 12, 2024 4:11 pm
Thank you all for such wonderful reviews! I will use them to get more people to LESBO SOLO.
Chris
August 11, 2024 8:34 pm
“A penetrating description of Terry’s journey into and embracing her lesbian identity” — Barrie Grenell
Terry and Barrie both nailed it.
Julietta
August 11, 2024 4:49 pm
Just such a beautifully moving and heartwarming personal narrative of lesbian love, defeat, triumph and herstory brilliantly delivered and told through the eyes of a local San Francisco playwright and artist. Bring your tissue. You will experience a variety of tears. Thank you, Terry.
Barrie Grenell
August 11, 2024 1:55 pm
A penetrating description of Terry’s journey into and embracing her lesbian identity, within a historical and literary arc that satisfies.
Amy Veltman
August 11, 2024 3:46 am
A charming, hilarious, illuminating trip through Teri’s personal history, which lines up with cataclysmic changes in feminist and lesbian history in the US. Don’t miss it!
Terry Baum
August 10, 2024 1:00 pm
“Baum is provocatively comic.” — SF Chronicle
“Hilarious, insightful & raunchy.” — SF Bay Guardian
“She made me weep with delight.” — Boston Phoenix
“Baum captures the crowd with immediacy, honesty and humor.” — Bay Area Reporter
Super fun and Terry Baum does an amazing job weaving this story of queer history
The audience was enraptured by Terry Baum’s story. So much so that some couldn’t wait to voice their own experiences and started telling them to their seatmates.
I was most intrigued by the sections on Terry’s creation of and participation in women’s and lesbian art communities.
Powerful to have Terry take to the stage to give us the wisdom, pain, humor and liberation of both her and her community over a span of 50+ years.
I understand that if a performer is too much in their own feelings, it doesn’t allow space for their audience to have theirs. That said, Terry in one of the most pivotal moments of LS let us see and experience YOU feeling your anger.
I loved seeing Lesbo Solo starring Terry Baum this afternoon. I especially enjoyed the way she tied it together. First, she depicted her love for her high school English teacher, who was afraid of being fired because people had whispered that she was a lesbian. At the end of the monologue, she described in middle age visiting a queer synagogue near her childhood home in Los Angeles and finding that the most celebrated congregant was that same high school teacher now 85 years old, who was in fact lesbian. I look forward to seeing more shows by Terry Baum.
It didn’t match the program description.But it was the best thing I’ve seen in years. Packing so much of her life journey into a captivating hour of humor and inspiring drama.
Terry Baum wove an amazing story of her queer history and she was spectacular! Thank you Terry and Exit Theatre!
If “Lesbo Solo” had just been a well-crafted, beautifully written and performed show with just the right balance of history, humor, and personal narrative, that would have been enough. But what we saw today went way beyond that. To know that Terry lived this history, to see the evolution of her self-acceptance and the joy she has found in her identity, to appreciate the way she took her parents to task for their denigration of you…at the end, I had tears in my eyes. Terry demonstrated for us today the transformative power of theater.Thank you so much, Terry, for your work, your humor, your vision, your life.
Great fun to relive the past with Terry’s Lesbo Solo. I saw her march/prance in the Pride Parade! Wonderfully performed!
Terry Baum — as always charming, goofy and artful — tells her personal tale and the story of a movement. Funny and surprisingly touching.
After seeing Terry in Lesbo Solo, I realized that there are so many layers in a person’s personality. Terry lays it all out there with laughs, some history of the beginning of the gay movement, and her commitment and contribution to it. All in all, it was engaging and fun and a great joy to see Terry in a totally different light, than before. It was a fast hour, leaving me wanting more. I highly recommend it.
You will laugh and cry happy catharsis tears. Terry Baum never promised this aloud, but my takeaway from listening to her 60 years-in-60-minutes lesbian coming-out and coming-of-age story was that everything was gonna be okay.
Lesbian love stories from before the internet was a thing are giving me all the warm fuzzies. They don’t teach queer stories like this in school or in most media but I wish they did!
This was my first lesbian history lesson and I want everyone, but especially every bisexual, pansexual, demisexual, queer, lesbian person to see it too.
Also, honestly, take your kids/teenagers to see this play. It’s got a few sex education moments for sure but it’s all about the stories and coming-of-age and self-love narrative. When sex is referenced in the story, IMHO it never is used as spectacle or to a pornographic effect, the sex tells the story about finding freedom and self-love.
From one queer to another: take your chosen family to hear Terry Baum (aka your new lesbian grandma) tell you about the high school teacher she “just adored, she was so talented!,” the leather dyke guardian angel who roared away with her to dinner (chest to back on the motorcycle) to tell her to quit it with the internalized homophobia, and the self-love of marching in the pride parade wearing a dildo hat and phallic vegetables.
Thank you all for such wonderful reviews! I will use them to get more people to LESBO SOLO.
“A penetrating description of Terry’s journey into and embracing her lesbian identity” — Barrie Grenell
Terry and Barrie both nailed it.
Just such a beautifully moving and heartwarming personal narrative of lesbian love, defeat, triumph and herstory brilliantly delivered and told through the eyes of a local San Francisco playwright and artist. Bring your tissue. You will experience a variety of tears. Thank you, Terry.
A penetrating description of Terry’s journey into and embracing her lesbian identity, within a historical and literary arc that satisfies.
A charming, hilarious, illuminating trip through Teri’s personal history, which lines up with cataclysmic changes in feminist and lesbian history in the US. Don’t miss it!
“Baum is provocatively comic.” — SF Chronicle
“Hilarious, insightful & raunchy.” — SF Bay Guardian
“She made me weep with delight.” — Boston Phoenix
“Baum captures the crowd with immediacy, honesty and humor.” — Bay Area Reporter