“Why You Beasting?” is definitely one of the most enjoyable shows in this year’s New York International Fringe Festival. Mr. Donovan (Shane Zeigler) steps into a high school practically begging to be hired, little does he know the degree of difficult …Read more

“I Am a Moon,” is a dark comedy about the difficulty of interacting with each other and ourselves. Through a small, disparate cast, director Marios Theocharous uses writer Zhu Yi’s long and powerful monologues and sparing dialogues to focus on the de …Read more

Relativity describes the dependence on the perspective from which the viewer considers things. Jay Prasad’s “Einstein”, now playing at the beautiful Theatre at St. Clement’s, makes full use of the scientist’s famous concept by inviting us to consider …Read more

Where do you find help when you realize you’ve nowhere else to go? That is the question at the center of “Help Yourself”, a witty one-woman show written and performed by Lauren Hunter and directed by Kitty Lindsay. The setting is a nondescript room – …Read more

“The Actual Dance,” is a passionate and moving one-man play written by and starring Samuel A. Simon. It is based on Simon’s personal experience with cancer and it is a story told from the rarely seen perspective of a man whose wife has just been diag …Read more

The musical “The Hills Are Alive,” part of “The 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival,” takes its title quite literally. Mocking the original 1965 film “The Sound of Music” with  character changes and adjustments. The play starts by taking the “Von …Read more

“Woolly Mammoth Panic Attack” is Rated R… for raunchy, rambunctious and ridiculously funny. Matt Nagin, poet, writer, and comedian presents his uproarious one man standup show, and it was a stellar success. This show was not made for the uptight. If …Read more

When the stories of extremely unsympathetic characters are covered extensively in the media, many of the complexities of their psychologies go unseen. “Slain in the Spirit” is an exploration of the underpinnings of such a mind, based on the harrowing …Read more

Son of a Hutch is a solo performance by Joe Hutcheson of his life’s story. Growing up, he felt like the odd one out from his family. While all the males he’s grown up around seem like mirror depictions of one another – playing baseball together as me …Read more

In “Unbroken Circle”, writer James Wesley presents us with the portrait of a family on the verge of collapse. The year is 1970, the setting a Galveston so undeniably Texan that people make “mormon” sound like “Merman,” and where a family gets togethe …Read more