The art of lip sync has become a mass-culture phenomenon in the past decade or so. But long before RuPaul’s Drag Race, Lip Sync Battle and TikTok, there was Lypsinka: the demented alter ego of John ...

“Hell is not other people,” said John Epperson by phone earlier this week. “Hell is myself.” The writer and star is behind the short film Lypsinka: Toxic Femininity, which dramatizes the existential ...

To that end, Epperson’s having a special Berserk Room installed at the Studio Theatre. There, he’ll greet the audience following each performance of The Passion of the Crawford, in which Epperson as ...

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Nervous collapse has never seemed as alluring as it does in Lypsinka's latest show, a solid hour of emotional meltdown that is the giddy delight of a sleepy summer theater season. Even that ...

Studio Theatre’s “Lypsinka! The Boxed Set” is a dizzying, hilarious glimpse of what happens when a performer’s polish cracks and reveals a bit of insanity underneath. With a brassy auburn wig, ...

Tell John Epperson you’re having trouble deciding how to describe his theatrical persona, and he generously offers some choices. “It’s not mime, but there is a pantomime aspect to what I do, in the ...

LYPSINKA!: THE BOXED SET: Solo show. Created and performed by John Epperson. Directed by Kevin Malony. (At the Alcazar Theatre, 650 Geary St., San Francisco. 70 minutes. Tickets: $25-$40. Call (415) ...

In Lypsinka! As I Lay Lip-Synching, John Epperson's ultra-glam drag creation performs to a soundtrack of famous leading ladies. Lypsinka launched her theatrical career in I Could Go On Lip-Synching ...

To those apoplectic over the dire shortage these days of great ladies of the theater, I give you that one-dame cavalcade of hyperdramatic femininity, Lypsinka. Sweeping into our midst like some ...