A waitress (Kelly Coy) and wanderer (Sage Starkey) meet-cute in an all-night diner and take off to see the widely-advertised Rock City. A geeky guy (Wesley Slade) waits alone in Roswell for the aliens to land. An adoring granddaughter (Kelly Coy) takes her ailing, inarticulate Grampy (James Meadows) to the Alamo to reunite with...
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I've been eagerly anticipating The Three Pussy Riot Sisters as the homecoming of Fringe-favorite writer/director David Lee (Jaws The Musical, Pie-Face), and expected another sly serio-comic sendup along the lines of Aunt Vanya and Nirvanov, the first two installments of his “Chekhov Mash-Up Trilogy.” What I found instead was something much more profound; rather...
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In 2012 I named Danny Feedback's Crack Rock Opera the “Worst, Worst, Worst Anything Anywhere Anytime” that I'd seen on stage (and yes, I've seen Spider-Man: Turn Out The Dark). So I was understandably apprehensive about returning to the re-mounted show at Fringe; after all, at least the production I saw at the Parliament...
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At its best, acting is an exercise in artistic empathy in which one person inhabits the soul of another, and that's exactly what the two-person cast of Brutal Imagination achieves with breathtaking impact. In 1994, Susan Smith (Melissa Landy) notoriously drove her car into a lake, drowning her young boys in the back seat,...
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Every year at Fringe I seem to find a fantastical freak-show of physical theater to fall in love with, like Miss Hiccup (who returns to the Festival this year), Poofy Du Vey, or Schave & Reilly. This time around, Wonderheads won my Fringe Crush fealty with their touching triumph LOON. When we first meet...
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It’s a free event but donations are encouraged, as the event will benefit the Zebra Coalition, an LGBT-leaning community resource for youth in crisis.
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