Recommended by The Guardian, Fringe 2026: “Ten Terrific Shows”
New York Times Recommended (June 2026)
Sold-out run, Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse (June 2026)
“Most Exciting Female Solo Theatre Shows,” Edinburgh Evening News
Sold-out show, Edinburgh Fringe (2025 and 2026)
A New York Times recommended play, FURNITURE BOYS by writer-performer Emily Weitzman is a riotous solo show that turns boyfriends into futons and lampshades and breakups into broken chairs. A surprising meditation on impermanence, FURNITURE BOYS is hailed by The Guardian (★★★★) as ‘ingenious,’ ‘shimmeringly silly,’ and ‘ridiculous and revelatory.’ Weitzman blends theatre, comedy, clown, spoken word and furniture showroom in her search for what endures: a relationship, a memory, a sofa-bed?
FURNITURE BOYS was reviewed by The Guardian with a glowing 4-star review for its debut run at Ed Fringe. The Guardian calls FURNITURE BOYS: “Ridiculous and revelatory”; “witty… ingenious”; “Weitzman’s show keeps revealing hidden depths.”
The Guardian writes: “She also achieves a feat that many fringe comedians don’t manage as she makes a whole out of familiar elements: a wacky concept, heartfelt memoir, multimedia diversions, the story of her show’s own creation and a closing cri de coeur for artistic pursuits. It is a very well-made play.”
Reviews of FURNITURE BOYS at Ed Fringe:
The Guardian (4 stars); The Student (4.5 stars); The Derek Awards (5 stars); One4Review (4 stars)
Written & Performed by Emily Weitzman; Directed by Kate Doyle; Cinematography by Shih Ying Hu
Past performances:
2026: Kathmandu at the Mandala Theatre; London at The Free Association; NYC at SoHo Playhouse; Edinburgh at Underbelly for Edinburgh Fringe; Florida at Theatre For
2025: Edinburgh at Underbelly for Edinburgh Fringe; Orlando at Orlando Fringe’s Winter Fest
2024: Debut at SoHo Playhouse in the SoHo Playhouse Lighthouse Series - Finalist and awarded Theater’s Choice; Island Fringe at Prince Edward Island, Canada
Direct from Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse, winner of Fringiest Show at Orlando Fringe. This ‘inventive, playful, and surprisingly heartfelt comedy... will surprise you with its tenderness and grandiosity’ ****½ (The Student).
FURNITURE BOYS premiered off-broadway at SoHo Playhouse in 2024 and was a finalist in the SoHo Playhouse Lighthouse Series. FURNITURE BOYS was awarded the Fringiest Show Award from the 2025 Orlando Fringe’s selective FestN4 and the 2024 Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Award.
Written and performed by Emily Weitzman. PEN Award finalist Kate Doyle directing its Edinburgh Fringe debut and SoHo Playhouse off-Broadway run.
Hailed as "hilarious," "weirdly poignant," and "loopily, luminously charming," this one-woman show has been called "imaginative, thoughtful, playful, hilarious and relentlessly, infectiously joyous" (The Buzz).
A tale of pull-out couches and break-ups and art-making, FURNITURE BOYS explores the impermanence of a relationship, an artistic project, a person, a chair, a self.
“Weitzman… has a winning way about her," The Orlando Sentinel writes. Calling the show "a meditation on permanence, expectations and letting go… You just might go home and hug your favorite ottoman.”
Praise for FURNITURE BOYS:
“Ingenious… Shimmeringly silly… Ridiculous and revelatory” — The Guardian ★★★★
“Fabulously zany, yet insightful… ingenious and delightfully idiosyncratic… a philosophical and highly literate meditation on relationships, impermanence and, well, life itself” — The Edinburgh Reporter ★★★★★
"Emily Weitzman is mesmerising... Furniture Boys makes the ordinary strange, the ridiculous moving and the seemingly inanimate unexpectedly alive." — The Nerd Party ★★★★
“Immensely quotable… a superbly creative show which will surprise you with its tenderness and grandiosity.” — The Student ★★★★½
“Furniture Boys takes an irresistibly strange premise and turns it into an unexpectedly moving exploration of love and loss.” –Edinburgh Evening News
"Surreal feminist comedy" — The New York Times
“A sharp one-woman show… Lots of fun” — The National
“As memorable as it is funny, and unlikely to be soon forgotten by those who’ve experienced it.” – The Recs ★★★★
“Immensely quotable… a superbly creative show which will surprise you with its tenderness and grandiosity.” — The Student ★★★★ 1/2
“Her performance is genius.” — One4Review ★★★★
“Absurd, loopy, and wacky…Cleverly written.” — The Derek Awards ★★★★★
“Weitzman is so loopily, luminously charming you can’t help but root for her… Furniture has never been more moving.” – The Buzz
“Weitzman… has a winning way about her… A meditation on permanence, expectations, and letting go… You just might go home and hug your favourite ottoman.” – Orlando Sentinel