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

Jeremy Stuart’s For Now is a play riddled with suggestions of sex.  The first thing we hear is moaning in the dark. Every conversation is post-coital or pre-coital, and there’s the feeling that the two characters – simply named Man and Woman – could …Read more

You really can’t go home again in the dark family comedy Straight Faced Lies at the New York International Fringe Festival. Cathy Ryan (Geraldine Librandi) and her two grown children, Melissa (Dana Domenick) and James (Jacob Thompson), don’t like eac …Read more

As we applaud the inclusion in the FringeNYC Festival of shows written by and featuring women as its protagonists, pieces like The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Romance, Robots and Soul-Crushing Loneliness can’t help but leave a bitter aftertaste, because …Read more

In This Side of the Impossible, mentalist Sebastian Boswell III presents audiences with a remarkable spectacle that defies all notions of logic and apparent physical possibility. Challenging our perceptions of what’s real and what’s achievable by men …Read more

Elaine Stritch was quite unique and anyone who sets off to play her must be aware that in doing so, half the battle might be already lost, as they will be unlikely to capture what made her so special. With that said, one has to applaud comedian Jay M …Read more

Touching, well-researched and funny, Lilith Theater San Francisco’s Hick: A Love Story is a one-woman show that explores the long-speculated romance between journalist Lorena Hickok and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Hick, which is showing at the New …Read more

“I live in an indie movie.” So declares Kelly K. Kelly, the main character of Hard Day’s Night, a wonderfully entertaining new play by Vicki Vodrey currently playing at the New York International Fringe Festival. And given Kelly’s family, the compari …Read more

What would a wealthy, white widow of a certain age do if someone she had never met before claimed to be the secret love child of her beloved, departed daughter? What if the person in question was a young black man? This is the scenario in which theme …Read more