Gay punks Tuffer and Roderick are turning forty. Neither wants to face it. While Tuffer continues to smoke, snort, and screw his way through Manhattan’s collegiate male population, Roderick’s gone straightedge, embracing activism and martial arts. With the arrival of Tuffer’s latest boy toy, Brandon, Roderick can take no more. After a disastrous quasi-intervention, Tuffer agrees to a sobering-up at Roderick’s mother’s house in rural New Mexico.

But when Roderick’s mother Abigail, a formerly successful folk singer, throws the guys a very organic birthday party, twenty years of tension comes to a head. They must confront one another, and themselves, in a kind of spiritual exile on the high desert. Each is on the verge of something new, almost somewhere, in the jamb.

The Jamb is a queer coming-of-middle-age story set in 2008. J.Stephen Brantley’s punk rock rom-com on crystal meth examines how addiction, politics and pop culture have impacted the lives of gay American men who grew up post-Stonewall, pre-Will And Grace. The award-winning 2016 production was directed by Obie-winner David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me). Mature audiences only.


TUFFER is a very charming thirty-nine, but can pass for much younger in a bar at closing time. He’s a trust fund baby and ivy league flunker who continues to party like it’s nineteen ninety-nine.

RODERICK is Tuffer’s best friend. After years of reckless behavior, Roderick did a three-sixty in preparation for his fortieth. Now he’s taken up the challenge of reforming Tuffer too.

BRANDON is a twenty-year-old college student and part-time go-go boy. He may not be entirely innocent but he is certainly still green enough to be a romantic.

ABIGAIL is Roderick’s mother. Once a successful singer-songwriter, she has mostly retired to a hilltop in rural New Mexico.