Last month, audiences at the New York International Fringe Festival were treated to the hilarious and thoughtful one-man show A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. The show brings David Foster Wallace’s classic essay to life, as performer Chris …Read more

Once a cause célèbre for its brutal subject matter, Phillip Ridley’s electrifying Mercury Fur is celebrating its tenth year with considerably more acceptance at the New Group. One of the play’s stars, Jack DiFalco, plays Darren, an innocent in a dyst …Read more

Elizabeth Stanley plays Claire de Loon in On the Town with the precision of a scientist. She knows this woman inside and out, and you can tell from the way in which each of her moves seems both predisposed and completely natural. But she is not only …Read more

Writer, philosopher and teacher Alain LeRoy Locke, a high-profile affiliate of the Harlem Renaissance, said of it in 1926 that, “Negro life is seizing its first chance for group expression and self-determination.”  He wasn’t wrong.  During the interw …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

Kill Sister, Kill! A Musical tells the story of avenging angel Lily (Samantha Walkes), a nun who upon witnessing the brutal rape and murder of her sister Kitty (Astrid Atherly) takes it upon herself to seek justice. Deeming itself an “homage” to expl …Read more

By the time she’d reached her mid-twenties, Jessie Bear was overweight and filled with self-loathing. Stepping on the bathroom scale was a painful experience. One day, after experiencing periods of thirst, fatigue and frequent urination she stepped o …Read more

Virgin Sacrifice. The title certainly grabs your attention. Is this some sort of cult performance? Just another weird New York-y thing? Well, think again. It’s a comedy show that was brought to New York by Los Angeles comedienne Nicole Blaine and dir …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

Night of the Living, part of the New York International Fringe Festival, tells the story of Mia (Belle Caplis) and Marshall (Eric Kuehnemann), a married couple making their way in the aftermath of an epidemic that has wiped out the human race. The pl …Read more