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Ever been in a dead end job and it seemed like you were going nowhere?  Everyday the same routine?  Well the title characters of the play Ye Elizabeths have been doing just that for the last several years – and they couldn’t be happier.  They work as reenactors for the Old Salem Township Living History ... Read The Full Article...

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Stinky Flowers

There’s something truly wonderful about smartly written children’s stories.  When you look at the enduring ones they’re not still around because they’re cute or funny or have clever titles . . . they’re still around because they teach an amazing lesson in a subtle and gentle way.  So, while Stinky Flowers and the Bad Banana ... Read The Full Article...

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. T.S. Eliot The very idea of Three Sisters Come and Go was risky to begin with.  A collaborative effort between the actors — Liza Cassidy, Claire Helene and Jackie Lowe ... Read The Full Article...

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Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw is one of my favorite works committed to paper, being a wonderful macabre pastime that my Grandmother and I used to share together, acting out the roles as we read along. I feel it is truly one of the most important staples of Gothic Literature. With every read ... Read The Full Article...

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Mimi Imfurst is Anne Frankenstein

Lets start with a tangent shall we. I always hate when reviews only focus on their headlining actor. Exhibit A. Roundabout Theatre’s current revival of After Miss Julie: all the reviews have focused on Sienna Miller and her amazing-to-some (or stale-to-others) performance, only a handful remembered to mention the likes of Johnny Miller and Marin ... Read The Full Article...

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Fringe

You can tell it’s Fringe Season when theatres ’round the city are suddenly bustling with life at odd hours of the day and escorting people in and out quickly so they can strike a set and get ready for the next show which is happening in, oh, about a minute.  Yes, it’s all about endings ... Read The Full Article...

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New York Fringe Festival 2009

Unless you’ve been living outside of New York City for the last decade or so, chances are you’ve either attended a Fringe show yourself, or you’ve at least heard about the festival.  ”Fringe”, of course, means The New York International Fringe Festival and it is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with more than ... Read The Full Article...

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Bird House

Lewis Carroll did it with Alice in Wonderland … L. Frank Baum did it with The Wizard of Oz: gave us stories of fantastical worlds where innocent girls stumble backwards into their watershed moment and grow up from the inside out.  Now, playwright Kate Marks brings us another place of fantasy where not one but ... Read The Full Article...

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When I came on to the staff of neighborbee in October of 2008 as the theatre columnist I had no idea that  just nine months later I’d be this immersed in the Off-Off Broadway community.  But here I am, 29 weeks, 32 shows and 25 reviews later … writing not just for this site but for The ... Read The Full Article...

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Twisted is the latest great ensemble piece to come from the Horse Trade group and once again they deliver a show that lives up to its name.  From outlandishly twisted to deviously twisted to simply subtly twisted, each of these five one-acts is served up with a twist. Related Posts:Ye Elizabeths: Living Vicariously Because … ... Read The Full Article...

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Going to see The Temperamentals at the end of Pride Month was as deeply stirring as watching a reenactment of the signing of the declaration of independence on July 4th, if not more so.  Because, while the history of how America fought and won its independence is a story that is well worn, the story ... Read The Full Article...

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"The Office"--Cast of Richard Hymes-Esposito

This Isn’t Paradise is so much like Glengarry Glen Ross that it could have been written by David Mamet himself.  That is … if David Mamet had fallen down a well and lost his memory.  And his ability to write a play. And when he crawled out of the well all he found in his pocket ... Read The Full Article...

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