The 2013 Fringe has provided a final showcase for a half-dozen talented performers to shine in their own light in a production of Adam Bock’s absurdist comedy.
Last year’s charming Wonderheads production of Grim and Fischer wasone of the “Pick of the Fringe” winners, and deservedly so. If anything, Loon is even better
Broken into about 10 scenes that are strung together onlywith that theme, the piece bounces between hokey humor, tuneful songs, Stomp-likedance sequences and good old-fashioned stand-and-deliver monologues.
FourHumors’ Lolita achieves threeremarkable things: It honors the source material; it let’s us know that therevered plot is downright horrifying; and it is side-splittingly hilarious fromstart to finish.
Brooklyn-based AztecEconomy’s productionprovides an intense, funny, scary, dark experience for a littleover an hour regarding the effects of a cave collapse on five coal miners.
Thissmart, quick-moving, three-person show pulls in video to advance the plotand underline what's going on and frequently makes sly fun of theatricalconventions.
Comedian, storyteller and musician Paul Strickland from Indianapolis does something clever with this one-man show: He applies the tropes and archetypes of the ancient oral storyteller to mythologize trailer parks.
The 2013 Fringe offering from New York City’s Keeping Watch company chronicles David Lee Nelson’s journey to arrive at the moment he comes out to his father as a Democrat.
The newest play from creative team Serenity Fisher and Robin O’Neal Kissel is a whirlwind of new vocabulary words (say zoetropic five times fast); new professions (flavor listener) and new problems (an entire galaxy is about to be devoured/obliterated by
I suppose if you saw it, you might say that Pulling off Procreation is a Fringe-esque meditation on celebrity and fame in a 24/7 “news” culture. You might also say, as I did via my review notes, “OH MY GOD KILL ME NOW.”
Darrow’s gumshoe detective story goes like this: He is a fedora-wearing, gun-toting man in love with the wrong kind of dame. Man is murdered (bum, bum, bum!) and with magic tricks, mentalism and plenty of help from game audience members he solves the WHO
In this one-man show, Kevin Brown, a lanky young man with a punk-style shaved head and a long blonde forelock a la Rihanna, throws himself into what is billed as “the internal violence and drama that occur when one questions stereotyping, impatience, gen
Playwright Andrew Hungerford had a solid foundation for his very silly 2013 Fringe show, A. J. Raffles: Amateur Cracksman. It was, in fact, a series of stories in the 1890s and a 1904 play (titled Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman). Victorian
The actors and the show were absolutely at their best during unscripted moments — hearing the Coffee Emporium phone ring, accidentally hitting the ceiling fan above the stage, calling attention to the lack of off-stage space during the show — events that