Although the character she plays is a credulous, simpering, unworldly, clueless ninny, actress Andrea Alton has the unflappable confidence and skill that makes her one woman show Possum Creek at the New York International Fringe Festival a delight to …Read more

Popesical: what a great title. It’s succinct; it’s informative. You know that what you’re going to see will be an irreverent, gleefully offensive satire of Catholic tradition, along the lines of a Fringe-budget Book of Mormon. Director and composer A …Read more

The magnificent multimedia dance theatre play Pearl, inspired by the life of writer Pearl S. Buck, premiered at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Thursday night. This gorgeous, sweeping epic is directed and choreographed by Daniel Ezralow, …Read more

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

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