Publicity material for The God Gaffe (at the New York International Fringe Festival) notes that this John William Schiffbauer two-acter (directed by the playwright) was “inspired by Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s departure from The View.” Schiffbauer’s play …Read more

In 1995, author David Foster Wallace set sail on a seven-night luxury Caribbean cruise aboard the MV Zenith and wrote about his experience in Harper’s Magazine, later republished as the essay A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Twenty years l …Read more

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is hailed as one of the most important poems in literary history. Rife with satire and literary references, and constantly shifting in voice, location, and time, the poem is often difficult to follow. In The Waste Land, p …Read more

Tim Manley is full of feelings, and he wants to share them with you. How he’s reached this point in his life is the subject of his one-man storytelling show, Feelings: because why pretend the show is about anything else?, part of the New York Interna …Read more

Plastic bags, flashlights, a white canvas, and Day-Glo bendy straws become the portal to a subterranean world in dungeon, an imaginative puppetry piece currently playing at the New York International Fringe Festival. Presented by Artistic Abandon NYC …Read more

The Comedienne Project at the New York International Fringe Festival is standup framed in a strange way. It is a sort of theater-standup hybrid, allowing its two performers, Katie Hannigan and Corinne Fisher, the room to display their acting (caricat …Read more

There’s nothing like an intimate theater where the audience feels like they’re sitting in someone’s home, watching a family drama unfold. That’s the mood set by Tek Theatrical Productions’ To Each Their Own, written by Tracey Knight Narang and direct …Read more

Audience members don’t have to be interested in poetry to be drawn in by the turbulent life of Sylvia Plath. Part of the New York International Fringe Festival, Plath., directed by Emily Feinstein with music by Fernanda Douglas and book/lyrics by Mol …Read more

An elderly woman slowly emerges from behind a trunk, plugs in a small lamp, and retreats into the past. So begins Dancers, a ‘movement play’ performed by Wrought Atlas Theatre Ensemble currently making its North American premiere at the New York Inte …Read more

If there were any doubts that the new musical, Waitress, would reach Broadway in the spring, reviews for the show’s pre-New York try-out should allay them. Running in Cambridge at the American Repertory Theater through Sept. 27, Waitress tells of a w …Read more