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There’s something ominous about the severe black stage set, piled here and there with stacks of matte black boxes, that greets you as you enter the performance space at The Living Theatre for this production of George Brant‘s new play, Salvage. You have just descended a stairs from street level and you may as well ... Read The Full Article...
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When Sheherizade began, it seemed like this might just be a production where there was interpretive dance to help us feel part of the story. But once the story of the storytelling began I was quickly swept up by the organic flow of this piece, wrapped up in the stories as dance, storytelling, a strange type ... Read The Full Article...
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“You do the most wildly inappropriate things when you think the world is about to end” is the excuse Alice (Michelle Woods) and long term boyfriend Bobby (Josiah DeAndrea) use for how they ended up at The Bunny Hole waiting to meet Jerome and Kelly: prospective up-for-anything sex partners for the evening. And so begins ... Read The Full Article...
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Walk into Five Things: A Webcomic in 3-D and you’ll immediately notice that it’s working hard to live up to its promise of mimicking a web comic; the rear screen projections (designed by Amy Overman) have “previous” arrows, and the sound effects, inner thoughts, dreams, and various other clever notions are all drawn out (by Brooke ... Read The Full Article...
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There are a plethora of End of the World movies, television shows and now even off-off Broadway productions. This can be evidenced in a special insert in the program of The Apocalypse of John to “collect items from all five of the end of the world shows in Fringe” (Snow White: Zombie Apocalypse, Below, The ... Read The Full Article...
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The Bible meets Occupy Wall Street in this philosophical excurse into our wireless world where the modern day descendants of Cain and Abel text message each other underneath the ominous shade of the 21st century Babel colossus – utterly connected and ultimately divided. Written by Brian LaPerche, who also stars in the show, The ... Read The Full Article...
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For a series of loosely connected monologues focusing on the patrons and workers at an Atlanta gay strip club, Ryan Kipp‘s biographically based, self-authored, one man show, REDlight, which runs for all of 36 minutes, is immensely ambitious. Not only does it ask much of its performer in generating a diversity of meaningful, sympathetic ... Read The Full Article...
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The Happiest Medium welcomes guest contributor Rebecca Bernard Billed as a “Story of adventure!” Paper Plane, the new collaborative music-play produced by the company 3 Sticks, takes us on a ride that is at once poetical, surprising and of vast proportions. The story follows an innocent young boy of 11 1/2 against the backdrop of the Great Depression. ... Read The Full Article...
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Want someone to put a giant smile on your face tonight right around 11:00pm? How about a whole band of someones? And not just “someone”s but Kill The Band – the best someones around. Get in the middle of the good vibrations and let Kill The Band give you that happy ending they’ve been ... Read The Full Article...
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Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West [1893-1980] created sensation after sensation after she transitioned from vaudeville to Broadway, where she once co-headlined with Al Jolson. If she had lived as long as she wanted, Miss West would be entering her 120th year today: August 17. She’s entombed in a mausoleum in the Abbey of Cypress Hills ... Read The Full Article...
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Chris Phillips‘s new play, Pieces, running briefly at The Cherry Lane Theatre as part of NY Fringe 2012, is a fine example of dramatic writing and boldly engaging theatrical entertainment. Set amidst the gay male milieu of haves and have nots, it concerns a grisly murder in Hollywood. Specifically it involves the fallout as experienced ... Read The Full Article...
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