Oy, What They Said About Love at Don't Tell Mama

Don't Tell Mama NYC will host acclaimed playwright and performer Steve Budd for his hit show Oy, What They Said About Love, a Jewish take on love, romance, and marriage--and the search for "the one." In this love-addled solo show, Steve kvetches and kvells on why other people can—and can’t—tie the knot. Through a dozen characters developed from hours of interviews, audiences are ferried through the tunnel of love as Budd sheds light on how people meet, navigate the push and pull of relationships, and make it to the chuppah—or not.

Oy, What They Said About Love received Best of the Fringe honors at the 2024 San Francisco Fringe Festival. The show will run in New York City for one night only, on Jan. 17 at 8pm, at Don't Tell Mama (343 W 46th St.).

Steve Budd's Oy, What They Said About Love premiered at the San Francisco Fringe Festival on July 28, 2024, at the Exit Theatre. It continued with a performance at the Binge Fringe Festival in Santa Monica in March 2025, followed by a featured presentation at The Marsh in Berkeley on April 22 as part of its Marsh Risings series. In May, Budd brought the piece to San Diego for a live and Zoom hybrid event hosted by Yiddishland California and also participated in the San Diego International Fringe Festival. The show continued its tour with performances at the Ottawa Fringe Festival in June 2025 at the Atelier Theatre, where Apt 613 hailed it as “a sharp and insightful, polished show.” Oy, What They Said About Love ran for six weeks in Sept. and Oct. 2025 at The Marsh in Berkeley, where For All Events called it "amusing and heartbreaking."