To Build a Soul

With his wicked witticisms, ardent social activism and cultivated mid-Atlantic accent—he sounds like Lauren Bacall in a saucy mood—Justin Sayre is an avatar of retroqueer cultivation. After delighting New Yorkers for years as host of the Meeting*—a variety series that combined hilarious rants with musical numbers and sometimes passionate advocacy—the writer-performer now returns to La MaMa for two weeks with a new solo show, created during the pandemic and directed by Dusty Childers, that westles with questions of selfhood and artistic creation.