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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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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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The spread of fairy tale themed and zombie-filled story lines have saturated the market over the last few years. We have The Walking Dead, Snow White and the Huntsman, Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and now, Snow White Zombie: Apocalypse, premiering at the 2012 New York Fringe Festival. If you ... Read The Full Article...
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I am all for the fairy tale fun we have been having in the last couple of years. There has been a melody of interesting takes on Snow White, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, the Wicked Witch, and so on, both on the screen and in literature. So, why not a play about ... Read The Full Article...
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We could all wish that the tone of political debate in this country was higher, and the comportment of political figures more respectful. It would be very nice if the current political scene did not lend itself so easily to farce. A media environment unready to engage with a more complex view of matters ... Read The Full Article...
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Gone much too soon! Shockwaves permeated throughout the industry on news of the death of one of the business’ most beloved people: Pulitzer Prize, Oscar [nine nominations; two wins], Tony, Drama Desk, Emmy [six nominations; two wins], Grammy [four nominations; one win], and Golden Globe-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, 68. He was one of a handful ... Read The Full Article...
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Occasionally an idea comes around that makes you think, how was this never done before? With Pulp Shakespeare, directed by Jordan Monsell, I had such a moment, and yes, it’s exactly what you are thinking; the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction done in the manner of William Shakespeare. Now, this could have gone wrong, but ... Read The Full Article...
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Have you ever seen something so comically bad you are almost happy you saw it? In two hours, D’Jamin Bartlett’s MisSpelled channels the missteps and bloopers of an Ed Wood movie, mixed with a Disney vibe and theater camp feel. Sounds like a lot? With nine cast members, about twice that many characters, and 15 ... Read The Full Article...
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