In the 1990s, two 20-something, struggling actors from Boston wrote a screenplay in order to work. In 1997, the longtime best friends won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and their success was mythologized by Hollywood into a fairy tale …Read more
In Little One, part of the New York International Fringe Festival, a brother and sister portray their lives growing up in an ordinary suburban neighborhood. The siblings were adopted into their family. Aaron (Daniel Arnold) arrived as a little …Read more
Your Love, Our Musical treats the audience to a real life love story, set to music. The performance at the New York International Fringe Festival is memorable and entertaining, but to truly appreciate the talent on display, a few important factors mu …Read more
Teddy Baskins (Vinnie Urdea), the passive hero at the center of Beware the Chupacabra, is the kind of person who has things happen to him, as opposed to being the master and commander of his own destiny. From unwillingly letting an heiress (Caitlin W …Read more
A journalist, keen to rebuild his professional reputation, arrives at a Rwandan prison five years after the 1994 genocide to interview two Hutu Nuns who are about to stand trial for war crimes. Their story is challenged by a survivor and dismissed by …Read more
The illustrious members of the Midtown Manhattan Entirely Factual Historical Research Society of Medicine come together in September 1898 to discuss the incident of a certain Phineas Gage, a railroad foreman who had an iron rod enter his face, come o …Read more
Grief and mental illness take center stage in the drama Coping, written by Jacob Marx Rice and directed by Anna Strasser. In this play at the New York International Fringe Festival, a group of four friends gather to come to terms with the sudden deat …Read more
Dale Smith’s Divine/Intervention suggests that the iconic actress made famous through John Waters’ films, gulping down dog excrement and singing trashy disco was the Mr. Hyde-like creation of a Glenn Milstead (Ryan Walter), who on the last night of h …Read more
Funny, well-acted and relying a little heavily on over-the-top humor, Serial: The Parody! puts a wacky spin on the popular podcast by Sarah Koenig, which reopened the details of the 1999 Adnan Syed case in which Syed was convicted of murdering his ex …Read more
A funny, wacky, pantomime-like performance, The Submarine Show at the New York International Fringe Festival is non-stop laughs. Co-creators and co-performers Jaron Hollander (formerly of Cirque du Soleil) and Slater Penney (an Emmy Award winner for …Read more