by Karen Tortora-Lee on August 31, 2010


Nothing feels better than taking that final bow, and hearing the applause going on and on . . . begging you to come out one more time. For some very special shows of Fringe, that’s exactly what gets to happen and we at The Happiest Medium are very pleased that some of our very favorites from the Festival are being called back again.
The 2010 Fringe Encore Series
What We Saw:
The Secretaries
Venue: The Lucille Lortel Theater
9/13 @ 10:00
9/15 @ 9:30
9/22 @ 9:30
9/23 @ 10:00
What We Said
This play simultaneously celebrates and skewers the female rituals . . . Fun from start to finish The Secretaries will make you laugh at old stereotypes, new rituals, and the concept of how far one will go just to fit in.(Read Full Review Here)
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by Stephen Tortora-Lee on August 27, 2010


One year after Hurricane Katrina struck, the mayor of New Orleans wanted to put on The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Hour. Public outrage stopped it from ever airing, but here is another attempt.
Rob Florence’s The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival directed by Dann Fink gives us a positive story of 5 people who experienced Katrina and made a difference. This difference is either to themselves, to their family, to their neighbors (in the normal sense of people who lived next door as well as the classic Biblical sense of whoever needs help), and to the city itself. Their “comedy” is not making light of what happened, but rather about not being beat by a situation which so many of the people in this play recalled as “post-apocalyptic”.
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