From the moment she steps onstage, you won’t want to take your eyes off of Courtney Act for one second. Courtney Act, a drag performer who has appeared on Australian Idol and RuPaul’s Drag Race, and played Angel in RENT, has brought a cabaret show to …Read more
Few performers are as generous onstage as Leslie Kritzer. With a larger than life personality and the pipes to match (damn, she can sing!), she effortlessly steals every show she’s in. After her iconic performances as Patti LuPone in Leslie Kritzer i …Read more
Conversations with My Molester, a spiritual autobiographical play written and performed by Michael Mack, broaches a subject some would rather slip under a rug. Part of the 15th Annual Midtown International Festival, this prize-winning solo show writ …Read more
Sleep Well is a short, one-man show about one man’s strange night with his even stranger roommate. Glynn Borders, writer, producer, performer and director, right away tells the audience, “This is a show about weird shit.” He does not disappoint. Bord …Read more
It’s true. We rarely turn away from crime scenes when we pass their way. In fact, most of us find ourselves involuntarily staring, petrified in our steps, and simply wondering: How on earth could things go so wrong? Now think of a play that goes eve …Read more
Two disclaimers: this is not a new version of the Richard Rodgers 1962 musical, No Strings, and; this reviewer confesses to having had pre-curtain anxiety. As in a disinclination to see a play about three gay men struggling with sexual entitlement (i …Read more
Whenever I read that an off-off Broadway theater company is putting on an eighty-year-old farce, my face instinctually contorts into the most apathetic, judgmental, completely involuntary eye-roll that it can possibly form. I don’t say this with prid …Read more
The son of Phineas Fenn – a skinny Hitchcock presenter – invites the audience to share in his father’s covert history, and everybody’s off to summer camp, as it were. Drop Dead Perfect by Erasmus Fenn (funny about the names, eh?) then reveals the twi …Read more
No show should be allowed to be as fun as Mark LaPierre’s Zombie Strippers. Set in the graveyard of an unnamed city, the show plays out like a Scooby-Doo episode imagined by the people behind Porky’s. Tiffany (Elle Bensinger) and Jinx (Sariah) are tw …Read more
Imagine that Sally Field had played Norma Rae using Carol Channing’s Dolly Levi as inspiration, and you can only begin to conceive the way in which Lynne Wintersteller takes hold of the stage as the title character in Mother Jones and the Children’s …Read more
