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SOMETHING WICKED

Anaïs Koivisto’s Something Wicked, produced by the Everyday Inferno Theatre Company as part of this year’s Frigid New York Festival, consists almost entirely of original lines from Shakespeare‘s Macbeth, cropped and re-arranged in deconstructed collage form to explore, in a very modern way, the character and motivations of its notorious anti-heroine, Lady Macbeth. Academically of ... Read The Full Article...

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Petunia and Chicken 4

There’s something immediately audacious and comical about compressing a voluminous turn of the century literary oeuvre into a one hour performance piece. When said performance is delivered by just two actors, deploying only a hat and a scarf as props, the ante rises significantly. As does the challenge. Such is the project Carrie Brown and ... Read The Full Article...

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LucyMcMichael

  Reach the top of the stairs of Quinn’s Bar and Grill and you’ll no longer be in the heart of midtown, elbow to elbow with the crowds maneuvering through the streets; swivel-headed tourists getting in the way of fast walking commuters rushing for the A train.  No, somehow, mid-staircase you’ll be transported to a ... Read The Full Article...

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Chris Tyler performing in an earlier workshop at Little Theatre in February (photo credit: Knud Adams)

  THIS IS A PLAY ABOUT BEING GAY Written and Directed by Teddy Nicholas Presented by the 2013 Fresh Fruit Festival www.freshfruitfestival.com All performances at The Wild Project 195 East 3rd Street New York, NY 10009 www.thewildproject.com Ticket available for purchase by: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/924653 “A three-act experimental gay identity politics play” Show Times: Tues 7/16/13 @ ... Read The Full Article...

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LLO

If you’re looking for a good, sexy, strong story about lesbians and their deepest desires look no further: Lesbian Love Octagon delivers a search-for-love story wrapped in social commentary with a side of schtick all set to the lush musical numbers written by Kim Kressal (book and lyrics) and Will Larche (music and additional lyrics).  ... Read The Full Article...

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Lysistrata Rape Play

There’s nothing funny about rape.  I mean … is there?  No.  Of course not.  It’s brutal, vicious  and terrifying, a crime that makes no sense, can be difficult to prove, and  - even in today’s society – leaves the victim stigmatized.  In fact, most victims are embarrassed to report their rape, let alone discuss it – ... Read The Full Article...

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  Katherine Maughan‘s An Evening With Kirk Douglas opens on a modest, tidy motel suite, with a neatly made-up bed, a nightstand, and a backpack resting on a table. Enter Maisie Kingsley, a young wife celebrating her first anniversary with a road trip around northern California. Her hands are covered with blood. Lots of it ... Read The Full Article...

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  Iranian-Canadian actress Tara Grammy portrays three distinctive characters in her one-woman show, co-authored by director Tom Arthur Davis, Mahmoud. We see her as the titular Mahmoud, a Toronto-dwelling, Iranian ex-patriot taxi driver in his middle years; as Emanuelos, a gay Spanish immigrant working happily as a department store cologne salesman; and as Tara, a ... Read The Full Article...

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The Happiest Medium welcomes guest reviewer, Mariah MacCarthy. Mariah  is the Producing Director Of CAPS LOCK THEATRE. It’s a shame that the word “charming” has the air of damning with faint praise, because I’m not sure how else to characterize Nat Cassidy’s Songs of Love: A Theatrical Mixtape. “Charming” sounds cutesy, it sounds mediocre-romantic-comedy, it sounds fluffy, ... Read The Full Article...

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Dressed in a dapper costume of 19th century clothing, with a drawn on mustache, Scott Baker addresses us in the opening section of his self-authored, one-man show, in the character of John Wilkes Booth, the pompous Shakespearean actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in a theatre in 1865. Of a distinguished acting family, an inveterate ... Read The Full Article...

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There’s one more chance to see some of the most exciting Fringe Shows of the 2012 festival!   Beginning September 7th, the FringeNYC Encore Series will present 19 “Best of The Festival” shows in rotating repertory at SoHo Playhouse and The Huron Club (both located at 15 Vandam Street between 6th Avenue & Varick) as well ... Read The Full Article...

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  Would anyone today contest the notion that growing up gay, as the youngest only son in a traditional white Catholic family in Queens during the seventies, would not be easy?  Such is Vincent James Arcuri’s story, and in his one man, self-authored show, Becoming Butch, he delivers himself of it in an engaging comedic ... Read The Full Article...

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