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This may not be a popular theory, but I always felt that if Shakespeare were alive today and writing this Scottish play the plot might very well be the same . . . but the title would be Lady Macbeth and the emphasis would be completely different. For without the devious, devilish, deliciously deceitful Lady ... Read The Full Article...
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Shine Mionne (Cass King) runs her operation on a corset string, but she stands by her ideals: a true edgy burlesque show with no glitzy Broadway feel. The roof leaks, lights break, the performers don’t get paid sometimes, but everyone is family and a star, including the real big girl Lucy Von Doozy (Andra Boo Green), ... Read The Full Article...
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We couldn’t let this month go by without offering a very special Fringe Edition of The Happiest Medium Giveaway. So even thought we already gave away tickets this month – we’re doing it again! After graciously doing an interview, the team at Banshee of Bainbridge has offered to dontate 2 tix to some lucky winners. ... Read The Full Article...
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We take our festivals very seriously around here, in case you hadn’t noticed. Show me a festival and I’ll show you a THM contributor sitting front and center, scribbling furiously in the dark. But there’s no denying, there’s a festival, and then there’s the Fringe Festival – the one we all wait for . . ... Read The Full Article...
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4 Cents Review – When 2 reviewers each give their 2 cents. Today Stephen Tortora-Lee and Karen Tortora-Lee give their 4 Cents about The Princes Of Darkness which is playing at Theater for the New City. Before The Princes of Darkness (written and performed by Bill Connington) even begins there’s an ambiance created by sound ... Read The Full Article...
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Take a cross dressing princess who woos everyone in her path in order to be with her true love, add a philosopher whose cerebral journey allows no room for romance, mix in his spinster sister who’s been shut away in a lonely compound full of men but with no opportunity, throw in a young man ... Read The Full Article...
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The Happiest Medium Review by guest contributor Kate Mickere The art of storytelling seems to be in the Irish blood. Ancient bards used to wander the Irish countryside, singing the haunting ballads of the isle for a pint of ale. Ray Yeates is a modern bard, traveling across the Atlantic to perform the beautiful one-man ... Read The Full Article...
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I’m sure it happens to you sometimes … You’re walking down the street, pondering the inevitability of change and the hardship it’s apt to cause when you fail to adapt, and other foibles of the human condition… Then suddenly you realize that the person beside you is reading your mind, and doesn’t like what they ... Read The Full Article...
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On July 19, 2010, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2010 nominees at its annual sold-out event. The Happiest Medium salutes all the nominees this year, as well as all the other fantastic actors and ensembles whose names are not on this list but whose hard work ... Read The Full Article...
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Not all plays written in 1893 can weather an update; something is bound to be sacrificed for the sake of modernizing, be it plot, character or theme. But An Ideal Husband is not all plays. Writer Oscar Wilde was a man who had an uncanny ability to write about the time he was living in ... Read The Full Article...
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Looking to hire Josh Rivedal for your next show but can’t get a hold of his resume or reel? Look no further than The Gospel According To Josh – in one fast-moving hour you’ll see Josh run through his catalog of imitations, hear him sing songs both secular and sacred, and see him show his ... Read The Full Article...
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The Happiest Medium Review by guest contributor Kate Mickere Four floors below the sizzling New York streets, the Potomac Theatre Project is exploring hate. Gary the Thief and Plevna: Meditations on Hatred are two dramatic poems by Howard Barker (both directed by Richard Romagnoli) . The playwright, who has coined the term “Theatre of Catastrophe” ... Read The Full Article...
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