(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- The new East Lynne Theater Company celebrates Pride Month with a raucous one-night-only stand-up comedy show starring nationally recognized veteran comic Adam Sank in his award-winning show "Bad Dates: A One-Man Show About Many Men," on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at the Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME in Cape May. Showtime is 8:00pm.
Sank, who has performed with comedian Ali Wong as well as on "Last Comic Standing," the “Today Show” and VH-1's "I Love the 2000s," brings “Bad Dates” to the Clemans Theater for its New Jersey debut. The adults-only show takes you on one gay man's fruitless 30-year search for love. BroadwayWorld.com calls the show “queer comedy gold.”
“‘Bad Dates' is about a single idea, which is the fact that I've spent half my life hunting for men, and what the cost of that is,” Sank explains. “And while I hope people laugh, I'm also hoping they take away something genuine and heartfelt.”
“Bad Dates” debuted at New York City’s legendary Stonewall Inn in 2023, where it won two BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards – Best Debut Show and Best Spoken Word Show. Following that success, Sank took the show to The Foundry in Wilton Manors, Fla., Oscar’s Palm Springs, The Broadwater in Los Angeles, and Diversionary Theatre in San Diego.
“Pride Month is about celebrating authenticity, joy and the power of community through the arts,” says Mark David Boberick, executive director of East Lynne Theater Company. “Bringing Adam Sank to our stage gives audiences the chance to laugh together while also honoring the importance of LGBTQ+ voices in live performance. Adam’s fearless humor, storytelling and connection with his audiences make him the perfect artist to help us celebrate Pride in Cape May.”
Tickets for this mature-audiences-only show are $35 and are available for purchase online. The Clemans Theater for the Arts is located at 717 Franklin Street in Cape May, New Jersey.
Adam Sank is a two-time Broadway World Cabaret Award winner and one of the most recognized and accomplished openly gay stand-up comics in the country. He has been featured on NBC's “Last Comic Standing” and the “Today Show,” FOX's “Laughs,” CBS News, Vh1's “I Love the 2000s” and “Best Week Ever,” CNN's “@ThisHour,” CNBC's “Street Signs” and truTV's “World's Dumbest Criminals,” along with countless appearances as both a guest and fill-in host on Sirius-XM satellite radio. His debut comedy album, "Adam Sank: Live from the Stonewall Inn," went to No. 1 on both Amazon's list of Comedy Album Downloads and iTunes's New Comedy Releases, and it plays in rotation on SiriusXM's Raw Dog channel.
From 2017 to 2023, Adam hosted a popular weekly podcast – "The Adam Sank Show" – which was nominated three times for a People's Choice Podcast Award. Sank rebooted the podcast in 2025, and new episodes currently stream on all major audio platforms. Sank has performed regularly at comedy clubs, special events and festivals throughout New York City and beyond, including appearances at NYC Gay Pride, Gay Days Orlando, Atlantis Events and the Gay Naturists International Annual Gathering. In 2019, Sank retired from stand-up after releasing his second comedy album, "Adam Sank's Last Comedy Album," which went to No. 1 on Amazon and iTunes and plays regularly on SiriusXM Raw Dog.
In 2023, Sank came out of retirement with a new one-man show “Bad Dates," which enjoyed sold-out runs in New York, Florida, Los Angeles, San Diego, Palm Springs, and the Poconos. The show was awarded with Broadway World Cabaret Awards for Best Debut Show and Best Spoken Word Show.
Founded in 1980, East Lynne Theater Company has been named by “The New York Times” as one of the Top 75 summer theaters in North America and recognized by the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly as “one of the state’s most important cultural treasures.” In 2023, understanding that the American Theater is itself a growing work of art, East Lynne expanded its mission to “present and preserve America’s theatrical heritage” by including plays about America today. As of 2025, East Lynne continues to raise funds for its Capital Campaign to renovate its new home, the Clemans Theater for the Arts at Allen AME. As the company expands into the Clemans Theater, so does its calendar, which will offer year-round entertainment that includes plays and performances from worldwide writers, actors, musicians, and more.
