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

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