The Gravity Partners’ stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray at FringeNYC brings Victorian characters to life while effectively invoking modern day society and notions of celebrity. Director and author Neal Utterback has punctua …Read more
As the audience enters The Celebration of Whimsy a.k.a. The C.O.W performance space on the Lower East Side they are greeted by actors/characters in various states of inebriation wandering about the stage. A fitting set up for SMASHED The Carrie Natio …Read more
With the horrors of the Gaza conflict ongoing and with recent demonstrations here in New York by both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian sympathizers, Samira is a very relevant theatrical work. Presented by The Present Company as part of the New York Int …Read more
About five kinds of frustration occur when the curtain comes down on Colin Drucker’s Mother’s Day, presented as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, and all arise from the fact that this is a play with seriously important potential and …Read more
Fish-out-of-water stories are rarely as delightful as the one presented in Jump Man, which shows us what happens to siblings and plumbers extraordinaire, Mario (Jeff Essex) and Luigi (Benny Oyama) when they’re not battling evil flying turtles and sav …Read more
“No one asked me” is exactly the response you’ll find from millions of first generation if you ask for their opinion on immigration reform. When it comes to this country’s methods of handling children brought here from other countries to seek relief, …Read more
Bertolt Brecht was an acclaimed German playwright, poet, director, Marxist and Lothario, among many other credits. He was born just before the start of the 20th century, and passed on in 1956. He is credited as having reinvented the modern theater. A …Read more
Calling all tea lovers and a few coffee drinkers, too: Sex, Lies & Earl Grey is a must-see musical comedy at this year’s New York International Fringe Festival! Writer, actor, and comedienne Deborah Berenson’s FringeNYC debut is a revealing portr …Read more
Can you imagine having the chance to recreate a relationship, after it has already ended? Well, making its world premiere, <50% does exactly that. The play comes to us from actor, stand-up comedian and writer, Gianmarco Soresi, who decided to writ …Read more
With a title this powerful, I was instantly intrigued by the world that this tale was set in: the world of high-power public relations. Although this world is often defined in terms of image and order, in The Fiery Sword of Justice, one profes …Read more