The Thespis Theater Festival is held in New York City each summer. This year’s incarnation – which was held at the Hudson Guild Theater – contained over sixty productions. Of those, only six were chosen as finalists. They were each given encore prese …Read more

Those familiar with the Thomas Bradshaw’s writing have come to expect the controversial. His plays – which often deal with the graphic reality of subjects like murder, pedophilia, incest and rape onstage – are not for the easily triggered. But Fulfil …Read more

On paper, Pondling is a very accessible piece of theater. The one-woman show – written and performed by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, directed by Paul Meade, and being presented at 59E59 Theaters as a part of Origin’s 1st Irish Festival 2015 – is about Mad …Read more

A Spot on the Wall traverses some dark territory. The prison drama at the New York International Fringe Festival centers on two convicts who have committed unforgivable crimes, but their backstories also involve child abuse, pedophilia, poverty and a …Read more

Within the first few minutes of ReLateAble at the New York International Fringe Festival, the audience is fully aware of the apparently apocalyptic situation that will provide much of the dramatic propulsion of the piece. All of our modern means of c …Read more

Jeremy Stuart’s For Now is a play riddled with suggestions of sex.  The first thing we hear is moaning in the dark. Every conversation is post-coital or pre-coital, and there’s the feeling that the two characters – simply named Man and Woman – could …Read more

The Comedienne Project at the New York International Fringe Festival is standup framed in a strange way. It is a sort of theater-standup hybrid, allowing its two performers, Katie Hannigan and Corinne Fisher, the room to display their acting (caricat …Read more

The setup of Samsun Knight’s Vanishing Point, part of the New York International Fringe Festival, is fairly straightforward: Gene (Chris Morriss) is having an affair with Maria (Sarin West), and when his dying wife Diane (Jessica Asch) discovers his …Read more

The term “the singularity” can refer to a number of different theoretical futures that humanity could face. Some are more specific and often-discussed than others, but all carry both hope and anxiety for the future. It is a loaded term that betrays t …Read more

Series B of the 2015 Summer Shorts at 59E59 includes three pieces of premiere pieces that vary significantly in tone and type but somehow manage to create something resembling a complete evening of theater. The three new shorts are: Unstuck by Lucy T …Read more