Combine a fully stocked bar, the hottest of today’s tunes setting the atmosphere and short plays everyone can relate to, and you have one of the most innovative pieces of theater currently playing in NYC. Play/Date at Fat Baby is perfect for a first …Read more
When watching several short plays in succession, as I had the pleasure to do last Friday at 59E59’s annual installment of their Summer Shorts Series, it is an involuntary reflex as an audience member to try to sew together the shorts, to try to figur …Read more
“I would have called it Bill’s In The Bathroom,” my boyfriend joked as we walked out of the Jewel Box Theatre on Saturday night after a performance of Eurydice Descending, presented in conjunction with the Midtown International Theater Festival. Chuc …Read more
In reviews, as in all reporting, major pragmatic realities must be made known upfront. It is then necessary to convey right away that Daniele Scattina’s Clan Macbeth is performed in Italian. This may well discourage those not conversant in that fluid …Read more
Love triangles, sexual liberation, and relationship complexities abound in Micheline Auger’s Donkey Punch, in which characters challenge themselves to either live up to the person they think they are or fight for the person they want to be. The play, …Read more
From the moment she steps onstage, you won’t want to take your eyes off of Courtney Act for one second. Courtney Act, a drag performer who has appeared on Australian Idol and RuPaul’s Drag Race, and played Angel in RENT, has brought a cabaret show to …Read more
Sleep Well is a short, one-man show about one man’s strange night with his even stranger roommate. Glynn Borders, writer, producer, performer and director, right away tells the audience, “This is a show about weird shit.” He does not disappoint. Bord …Read more
Two disclaimers: this is not a new version of the Richard Rodgers 1962 musical, No Strings, and; this reviewer confesses to having had pre-curtain anxiety. As in a disinclination to see a play about three gay men struggling with sexual entitlement (i …Read more
Whenever I read that an off-off Broadway theater company is putting on an eighty-year-old farce, my face instinctually contorts into the most apathetic, judgmental, completely involuntary eye-roll that it can possibly form. I don’t say this with prid …Read more
The son of Phineas Fenn – a skinny Hitchcock presenter – invites the audience to share in his father’s covert history, and everybody’s off to summer camp, as it were. Drop Dead Perfect by Erasmus Fenn (funny about the names, eh?) then reveals the twi …Read more
