August 2011

Entrevista: Director Joe Barros (The Legend Of Julie Taymor At New York Fringe Festival 2011)

by Antonio Miniño August 22, 2011 Entrevista

The rise and fall of director Julie Taymor and the behind-the-scenes scandals of Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark is the premise behind the 2011 Fringe sensation The Legend of Julie Taymor, or The Musical That Killed Everybody! In the show Julie faces financial problems, actor injuries, technical malfunctions, opening delays, scathing reviews, all while battling [...]

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Victor And Victoria’s Terrifying Tale Of Terrible Things (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 22, 2011 Festivals

A Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things? With such alliterative allure we are beckoned to witness the strange story of fretful fraternal twins, Victor and Victoria. At curtain, on a darkened stage, the two children lie side by side in a commodious bed that features a headboard resembling, is it, a pair of pitching headstones? (Thank [...]

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Dystopia Gardens (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Lina Zeldovich August 21, 2011 Festivals

Dystopia Gardens: Soylent Green meets Sleeper. Ladies, gentlemen and other fellow Fringe enthusiasts, Will Nunziata and Jerry Sean Miller do it again: with their hilarious multi-media one-act, they instantly drop us into One World, a place allegedly so polluted that people live inside humongous domes and savor food pills. “Allegedly,” by the way, is [...]

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Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 21, 2011 FRINGE 2011

Just about everyone in Western culture has read or seen a rendition of Romeo and Juliet, and one thing that resonates most about this Shakespearean classic is the unfairness of the couple’s tragic ending. But what if you could jump in at critical times and nudge the characters into making different decisions? Would that be enough [...]

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Salamander Stew (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Lina Zeldovich August 21, 2011 Festivals

So What Really Is Salamander Stew? Shakespeare meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in Salamander Stew, a Romeo and Juliet musical powered by love and a mighty joint, currently playing at The 4th Street Theater as part of the New York International Fringe Festival. There aren’t too many international productions in Fringe this year, but [...]

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“ZOMBIE” To Be Screened At NYC International Film Festival

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 21, 2011 Event

The short film ZOMBIE will be screened on Monday, August 22 at the New York City International Film Festival. The program of shorts is at 11:35 am – 1 pm at the Abingdon Theater, 312 West 36th Street, 2nd floor. ZOMBIE is the last film on that morning’s program. Tickets are $5. ZOMBIE tells [...]

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Gleeam (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 21, 2011 Festivals

There was so much to be excited about before heading into Gleeam – the Glee / Scream Mash-up Musical written by Andrew Lloyd Baughman with lyrics by Phil Close and directed by Emily Jablonski. First of all, the advanced artwork was fun and clever. The iconic loser “L” now holds a menacing knife! How cunning! [...]

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Lipshtick (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Michelle Augello-Page August 21, 2011 Festivals

Lipshtick is an ambitious play, taking the audience on a funny, poignant, and complex journey through what it meant to be a woman in 20th century America amidst a media blitzkrieg mirroring society’s perceptions, ideals, and images, while seeking to expose how women internalize and externalize these expectations as they struggle towards a sense [...]

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Anna & The Annadroids: Memoirs Of A Robot Girl (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 20, 2011 Art

Meet Anna. In Anna & The Annadroids: Memoirs of a Robot Girl – an interesting combination of modern dance, techno music, social commentary, science fiction, multimedia, and a bit of burlesque – Anna is an android who is made of ”pure synthetic organic flesh”. So instead of being made only of metal with a “mind [...]

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Smoke The New Cigarette (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 20, 2011 Art

It’s pretty clever when a theatrical production adopts the stance that what it is about to present you with is nothing more than offensive, odious rubbish. And when it does so persistently, warning you at each interval that things are only going to get worse, more unbearable, it seems cleverer, because you have no one [...]

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MOTHER she’s with you wherever you go (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 19, 2011 Festivals

The mother/daughter dynamic is a convoluted one – speaking myself as a daughter who has both benefited from the advice of a strong willed woman while at the same time fought to get out from under the weight of Mother’s somewhat (shall we say) “insistent” personality. So, for me, Mary-Beth Manning’s Mother she’s with you wherever [...]

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The Bardy Bunch: The War Of The Families Partridge And Brady (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 18, 2011 Festivals

Here’s the story … of The Bardy Bunch: The War Of The Families Partridge And Brady. It’s 1974 and two families, one Brady, one Partridge are at war. Their battlefield exists in cancelled sit-com land and their weapons consist of killer dance moves, cut throat ballads and production numbers meant to slay you in [...]

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A Way Of Man (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 18, 2011 Festivals

Once upon a time… How that can roll off one’s tongue with a savor that is like the sun kissing your forehead on a sweet summer’s night, as the glowing orb burrows into its deep red cave in the sky. This is truly storytelling (with properly credentialed and sincere storytellers from the world famous International [...]

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You’ve Ruined A Perfectly Good Mystery! (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 18, 2011 Festivals

One thing about Fringe Festival is that it encourages experimentation among the already experimental crowd of off-off-Broadway and regional theatre troops from around the country. You can read more about their developmental process here, really quite fascinating actually. This piece is interesting in part because of the comedy interwoven into the structure (a fun mix [...]

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The Custodian (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 17, 2011 Festivals

What’s the difference between a janitor and a custodian? It’s all about a sense of responsibility for what you care for. The Custodian is a story about trying to find one’s way in the world, the complexities of love, and one normal man’s struggle to learn how to fight back against the messy [...]

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BETTE DAVIS AIN’T FOR SISSIES (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 17, 2011 Festivals

Sure, I knew that the star of Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies was going to be a woman. But there was still a part of me that gave a little stutter when I saw Jessica Sherr walk onto the stage, about to embark on her journey to embody this legendary actress. There’s a reason why [...]

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2 Burn (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 17, 2011 FRINGE 2011

There’s an undeniable darkness at the heart of Alex DeFazio’s new play, 2 Burn, produced by Elixir Productions Theatre Company for this year’s NY Fringe Festival at The Living Theatre. And the darkness in a large measure resides in the character of Paul, an earnest college educator, as played by Jody P. Person, one of [...]

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