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

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