Tony Borden’s Dead Lunch, or Who Prays for Bad Weather?, a character-driven, slice-of-life play at the New York International Fringe Festival, explores working-class society within the setting of a failing restaurant. In the first act, we see what ha …Read more

Aerial acrobatics, graceful choreography, heartfelt confessions and measured internal monologues weave together in Fail Better: Beckett Moves UMO. In this production at the New York International Fringe Festival created by the UMO Ensemble, Samuel Be …Read more

The Crack in the Ceiling, which opened August 15 as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, is about those unexpected problems that we must learn to survive as adults.  For Ellen, a single mother (portrayed skillfully and with great ease …Read more

Raw, contemporary and edgy, The Dirty Blondes’ The American Play is the story of college students all over the country. Performed at the New York International Fringe Festival, this play by Ashley Jacobson pays strange and twisted homage to Bret East …Read more

From Count Basie to Benny Goodman, the Big Band era of the early 20th century was dominated by men. Except for Ina Ray Hutton, that is. Hutton was the most successful female bandleader of the time and the first woman with her own television show, but …Read more

After recovering from a debilitating illness, Kathryn Morgan, a former soloist with the New York City Ballet, is re-launching her career in the upcoming ballet musical To Dance at the 19th annual New York International Fringe Festival. I spoke with K …Read more

In the strangely intimate Steve: A Docu-Musical Colin Summers paints a melodic portrait of a man he’s never met, but with whom he’s written hundreds of songs. For almost a decade, Summers has been musicalizing lyrics he receives from an Australian wr …Read more

SPONSORED ARTICLE The world of playwright Jim Shankman’s The Screenwriter Dies of His Own Free Will, which exposes the backstabbing deals of corporate Hollywood, seems about as far from the experimental, do-it-yourself attitude of the New York Fringe …Read more

On two consecutive nights in early August, The New York Pops took over historic Forest Hills Stadium in Queens to begin their annual summer residency. It seems as if the elements conspired to make both nights unforgettable, as the hot, humid weather …Read more

Georgina Pazcoguin, a soloist with New York City Ballet, has always been an artist in search for new experiences; in her time at NYCB, she’s performed dramatic character roles like Madge in La Sylphide, sung onstage in West Side Story Suite, and work …Read more