Staged reading
Tuesday, September 29 at 7:00pm
14Y Theater | 344 E. 14th Street
Three hilarious, heartbreaking, powerful women will be making mayhem at NYC’s 14Y Theater on September 29 at 7pm! Occasional Drawl is presenting a staged reading of Maggie Lou Rader’s new play LET. HER. RIP. as part of the Femme Collective’s 2026 ReProEco Tomorrow is Now festival.
In this darkly comic thriller, three London matchwomen are busting their lady balls to improve working conditions in the East End when Jack the Ripper starts killing women in their own streets. It’s 1888, and the patriarchy is getting bloody.
Come to laugh, gasp and be moved. Come to find out just who makes the final rip.
The Buzz
“A brilliantly reimagined discourse on women of the Victorian era. This is the Stages show to see this year...The play feels like it is giving a fierce identity to women at a time when they were just starting to fight for their own power. But ingeniously, there is comedy, there is friendship, and plenty of great moments of joy…This work speaks to the present, talks to us as a community, and explores the soul of the country, but all the while still entertains.”
Broadwayworld houston
“LET. HER. RIP. painstakingly balances high comedy with high horror, crafting a show that belongs in the annals of modern theatrical classics…a timeless and timely script…It’s an unapologetically angry story in an era where none of us can afford to be complacent. And it’s a paean to the necessity of compassion and connection.”
Houstonia Magazine