Going to Extremes: A John Waters 80th Birthday Celebration

No matter what your politics are these days, you have to admit it’s time for everybody to go to extremes. Going to Extremes: A John Waters 80th Birthday Celebration is a radical, comedy-revival show whose sermon will beg the authorities to drop a net on the filmmaker and his rabidly insane audience. Yes, they’re coming to take him away, ha-ha, ho-ho, hee-hee, but Waters doesn’t care. He knows his deviously demented fans will fight back with a limp-wristed fist. Nasty neuters, hetero hellcats with benefits, flaming straight guys, butch twinks, diesels with measles, trans who dress as their masculinized moms and feminized fathers—they know they’re welcome here!

Calling all rock ’n’ roll refugees and illegal space aliens: Waters says climb on over the wall to the other side. He’s dressed to thrill and ready to rant about pro-punk conversion therapy, right-wing female female impersonators, extreme amusement parks, even prank guerrilla placement of phony incendiary book titles in libraries that recently banned gay children’s classics. Yes sir, the Duke of Dirt has reckless eyeballs, and he’s lookin’ for you lunatics! Let’s all drill a hole in our heads so we’re high forever and crash the Kennedy Center! Go! Go! Go to the John Waters show! It’ll make you scream!