Tony Borden’s Dead Lunch, or Who Prays for Bad Weather?, a character-driven, slice-of-life play at the New York International Fringe Festival, explores working-class society within the setting of a failing restaurant. In the first act, we see what ha …Read more
Aerial acrobatics, graceful choreography, heartfelt confessions and measured internal monologues weave together in Fail Better: Beckett Moves UMO. In this production at the New York International Fringe Festival created by the UMO Ensemble, Samuel Be …Read more
The Crack in the Ceiling, which opened August 15 as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, is about those unexpected problems that we must learn to survive as adults. For Ellen, a single mother (portrayed skillfully and with great ease …Read more
Raw, contemporary and edgy, The Dirty Blondes’ The American Play is the story of college students all over the country. Performed at the New York International Fringe Festival, this play by Ashley Jacobson pays strange and twisted homage to Bret East …Read more
From Count Basie to Benny Goodman, the Big Band era of the early 20th century was dominated by men. Except for Ina Ray Hutton, that is. Hutton was the most successful female bandleader of the time and the first woman with her own television show, but …Read more
On two consecutive nights in early August, The New York Pops took over historic Forest Hills Stadium in Queens to begin their annual summer residency. It seems as if the elements conspired to make both nights unforgettable, as the hot, humid weather …Read more
“1. You write a poem. 2. You contact us with your poem, requesting we turn it into a song as an mp3 or CD. 3. We reply and send you a request for payment through PayPal.4. After we receive payment, we create a song using your poem as lyrics. This can …Read more
During the First World War, influenza attacked country after country after country. As injured soldiers returned home, they brought the virus with them; it turned into a plague. Some thought it was the beginning of the apocalypse: the War ended in th …Read more
Even before Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new musical, Hamilton, opened at off-Broadway’s Public Theater months ago, the buzz was so hot that speculation had the production searching frantically for a Broadway theater to overtake before the end of last season …Read more
The term “the singularity” can refer to a number of different theoretical futures that humanity could face. Some are more specific and often-discussed than others, but all carry both hope and anxiety for the future. It is a loaded term that betrays t …Read more
