Country Queen

Country Queen is a laugh out loud coming-of-age story by tour de force writer-performer Patty Irwin. This outrageous one-woman musical comedy follows “Country Queen” from her home, home on the range (New Jersey) all the way to Broadway, Nashville…or so she thinks. When she mistakenly winds up in New York City, she seeks solace in the first country bar she finds- Flaming Saddles- where she’s lassoed into a whirlwind night out at the Gay bars of NYC, experiencing Queer culture for the first time and loving it! But the supportive embrace of her new Queer friends is not enough to shield her from the darkest evil she’ll find in New York City: the Brooklyn dating scene. Her Meemaw taught her that a woman’s job is to find the perfect man and devote your life to him (and occasionally be a C*nt). In her messy quest for love, Country Queen instead finds lack of commitment, casual sex, and bacterial vaginosis. But along the way, she learns to challenge her long-held beliefs about a woman’s role in relationships with men, and eventually even challenges her own identity and what will make her happy. Ultimately, Country Queen is a tale of losing and finding yourself, bedazzled with hilarious original country music and an ungodly number of cooter jokes. 

PERFORMANCES:

• Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 10:00 PM
• Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 05:30 PM

RUNNING TIME: 60 min

PRICE: $18 Online, $20 At Door

At IRT: 154 Christopher St., NYC #3B (third floor)ADA AccessibleVISIT/CONTACT US»

Created  and Performed by Patty Irwin

Written by Patty Irwin, Rachel Weisbart, and Pat Oberstaedt

Directed by Rachel Weisbart

Music Directed by Pat Oberstaedt

ALab is an NYC theater festival that takes place several times a year at The IRT Theater in the West Village. Our mission is to present diverse, experimental works to new audiences at accessible prices while providing free resources and fair compensation to participating theater artists. 

Festival Directors: Sophie Rossman and Luke Wisniewski

Lead Producer: Blaise Ylianna Hewlett

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IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council; A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatres Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation & support for ASL interpretation provided in part through funding from Access A.R.T./New York.

ACCESS: IRT is a fully wheelchair-accessible facility. Please reach out to Kori Rushton if you have any accessibility questions or concerns, krushton@irttheater.org