Rosie O’Donnell is back in America — with plenty to say.
The comedy icon is bringing her one-woman show, “Rosie O’Donnell: Common Knowledge,” to New York’s Daryl Roth Theatre for 12 performances beginning July 22. Directed by Gabriel Barre, “Common Knowledge” sees the 64-year-old star chronicle everything from her 18 months of living in Ireland (and the myriad cultural differences she’s encountered) to raising a nonbinary child with autism. The Long Island native previously performed the show in Ireland, Scotland and Australia before bringing it to her old stomping grounds.
O’Donnell rather famously decamped to her ancestral homeland just prior to her longtime nemesis Donald Trump’s second inauguration. The former host of “The View” read the GOP’s Project 2025 transition plan and thought, “Oh, my God! They’re saying this part out loud? Imagine how bad it will be when he gets in!” O’Donnell was concerned about her own well-being, and that of her fifth and youngest child. “I didn’t do so well when [Trump] was in the first time,” she says, about Trump’s first presidential term. “And I knew with a nonbinary autistic child that I would need to be present, and not overwhelmed by the constant barrage of Trumpness that comes in America. During the horrors of World War II, they came first for the disabled. … I feel I was warranted in doing what I needed to do in order to protect myself and my family.”
