Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ theatre ’

I've spent my share of time at casino tables in Vegas and the Carribean, but I've never maxed out 8 credit cards or lost my rent money on a hand of poker, like Rory Ledbetter. As I learned in A Mind Full of Dopamine, his brisk, funny exploration of gambling addiction, the difference between...
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I thought that writer/performer Martin Dockery's previous solo Fringe outings (Wanderlust, The Bike Trip, Bursting Into Flames) were out of this world, but his latest is like something from a parallel dimension. I won't even attempt to describe Dark Fantastic's surreal Möbius strip of a storyline, which switches from first to second to third...
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Mitzi Morris (a.k.a. playwright Kevin Kriegel) has everything a swinging 60s super-spy needs: a M-like English authority figure (Michael Colavolpe), a bedazzled PPK and a handbag full of lethal gadgets, and a John Barry-esque theme song (composed by John deHaas). Likewise, her second Orlando Fringe outing If Looks Could Kill! has everything an effervescent...
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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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Sandra (Gemma Wilcox) is knee-deep in composing a new advertising slogan for marmite (the malodorous yeast goo Brits eat on toast) and has barely recovered from her mother's death and boyfriend's dumping, when an unexpected road trip rips her out of her rut, forcing her to face the futility of following other people's maps,...
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Here’s a helpful hint: if you want to bring your fiancé home for Thanksgiving to meet the family, try to refrain from humping your twin sister on the dining room table. It just makes breakfast the next morning so awkward. The fact that Jackie-O (Adele Papoosha), whose violent bipolar disorder makes her a poster...
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If you've ever known (or been) someone who can't leave the house without checking the stove a dozen times, you know obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is no laughing matter. But Audrey Kearns (co-founder of Discount Comedy Outlet and 4 Truths and a Lie) demonstrates with her autobiographical one-woman show Obsessively Okay that crippling neurosis...
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Key of E, the apocalyptic “junk rock” musical by Orlando musician Andy Matchett (of the band The Minks) and actor/writer Corey Volence, promises to “have it all,” and for once at the Fringe there’s truth in advertising. Shadow puppets, rage monsters, imaginary girlfriends, kick-ass rock ‘n’ roll, and more are all packed into this...
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When scavenging sticks for kindling, if it breaks it will burn. Lord Baden-Powell, the possibly-gay founder of the Boy Scouts, lived in a colonial encampment in Afghanistan with a manservant he called “the boy.” The quickest way to make young campers cry is to call them sub-human animals. I learned at least three useful...
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