The New York International Fringe Festival will bring 200 shows to NYC from August 12-28. We spoke with director Suzanne Karpinski about her show Lamia. What was the first musical that made you want to make musicals? I was actually excited about thea …Read more
The New York International Fringe Festival will bring 200 shows to NYC from August 12-28. We spoke with writer David Baird about his musical comedy Girl Versus Corinth. What was the first musical that made you want to make musicals? My senior year of …Read more
The New York International Fringe Festival will bring 200 shows to NYC from August 12-28. We spoke with Lily Ali-Oshatz (book/lyrics) about the musical The Extraordinary Fall of the Four-Legged Woman. What was the first musical that made you want to …Read more
The New York International Fringe Festival will bring 200 shows to NYC from August 12-28. We spoke with writer Lila Rubin about The Fall. What was the first musical that made you want to make musicals? To clarify, The Fall is a play with music, not a …Read more
The Gold sounds like the kind of thing Oscar dreams are made of: it has boxing, decades-spanning melodrama and Nazis, but what’s remarkable is that despite all of these elements it’s a rather sophisticated piece of storytelling that goes beyond being …Read more
In Clément Cogitore’s haunting Neither Heaven Nor Earth a group of French soldiers stationed in the Afghan desert face their worst enemy as members of the group begin mysteriously disappearing one by one. The absence of corpses or knowledge of the fi …Read more
Imagine if someone took a delicate rose and tried to preserve its beauty by photocopying it. That ought to give you an idea of what it’s like to sit through The Little Prince, an animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic that forgets …Read more
“It’s tiresome acting like something you’ve never been” says Abraham (Adrian Blake Enscoe) to Angelina (Elizabeth A. Davis), and even though he’s making a personal confession in the hopes of finally becoming free, he might as well have been talking a …Read more
Derek Jarman might have passed away in 1994 but always the visionary, he left us behind the film we would need in the aftermath of the Pulse mass shooting; his 1984 Will You Dance With Me? is an exhilarating paean to the sacredness of the dance-floor …Read more
Just like its extremely long title, The First Church of Mary, the Repentant Prostitute’s FIFTH ANNUAL!!! Benefit Concert, and Pot Luck Dinner, turns out to be a little too much. The show is set in an evangelical church in Nashville where service is p …Read more
