Is Bushwick the new Broadway? BLEACH, the one-man show playing twice nightly in a basement steps away from the Wilson Avenue L train stop is extending its U.S. premiere run to March 30.

The entire show takes place in a room that has been literally made into character Tyler’s basement studio. A windowed, converted garage, formerly a recording studio’s green room, is now hidden by the two couches for 12 audience members, a bed, some chairs, and some very gay knickknacks as set pieces (think Drag Con badges and Pamela Anderson’s novel Star on the bookshelf).  

As the basement door closes, and the pop music that seems to have travelled from a Hell’s Kitchen bar ends, Tyler, played by either David Gow or Brenden George, will wake up from his pre-show slumber and, for the next 70 minutes, it is just the audience and this one, often mostly-nude character. Tyler’s career as a gay male hustler is just the starting point of the dark and dirty secrets we get to know about this Bushwick resident that extend beyond what you’d get to know about your average straphanger.