FRINGE 2011

Ampersand’s Rockstar – A Chat With Lauren Hennessy

by Karen Tortora-Lee on September 14, 2011 · 0 comments

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It’s no secret that Mariah MacCarthy’s beautiful Ampersand: A Romeo & Juliet Story struck a deep chord with me; I loved so many things about it.  For me it was one of the highlights of this season’s Fringe Festival.  So when the wonderful Lauren Hennessy was the recipient of an award for overall excellence for [...]

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It’s A Sunshine Day For Stephen Garvey, Writer Of “The Bardy Bunch”

by Karen Tortora-Lee on August 31, 2011 · 0 comments

in FRINGE 2011, Interviews, Karen's Interviews, Manhattan, Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre

Earlier this week FringeNYC announced the 2011 Overall Excellence Award Winners and we at THM couldn’t have been happier to celebrate with the winners and congratulate them on their success.  One standout for me was The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady which was definitely one of my favorites this year.  [...]

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Elysian Fields (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson on August 30, 2011 · 0 comments

in Festivals, FRINGE 2011, Manhattan, Off-Off-Broadway, Reviews, Theatre

        There is a delightful episode in Chris Phillips’s play Elysian Fields, which was presented at the Kraine Theatre during this year’s New York Fringe Festival, when the characters Maggie (“the cat”) and Skipper, from Tennessee Williams‘s play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, are talking. Skipper is recounting to Maggie the [...]

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FringeNYC Announces 2011 Encore Series

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 29, 2011 Festivals

  Didn’t get a chance to see some of the Fringe shows everyone was raving about?  Wish there was another shot at seeing some of the plays THM reviewers couldn’t get enough of?  Well now’s your chance! 18 Hit FringeNYC Shows Return in September!  Beginning September 9th, the FringeNYC Encore Series will take place at [...]

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Happily Ever After (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 28, 2011 FRINGE 2011

Imagine what it would be like if you had always dozed off to sleep during your childhood bedtime stories, and you never got to hear the words -”and they lived happily ever after”? You were awake for the introduction of the main story characters – a fair maiden, a prince, a beast, a witch – [...]

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Pawn (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 28, 2011 Festivals

When is a tragedy not a tragedy? When we realize the Only Way Is Forward and healing takes place on a lot of levels. In the folk-rock musical Pawn, by Karmia Chan Cao (playwright, director, and composer) we see a Canadian family split apart twice in 10 years, first by the oldest son being taken from [...]

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FringeNYC 2011 Announces Overall Excellence Award Winners

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 28, 2011 Festivals

We’re thrilled to pass along the Overall Excellence Award Winners for 2011 FringeNYC.  Some of our very favorite shows and performers are being celebrated and we’re so thankful that we were able to experience these talented performances this year.  Congratulations to all the winners! *** August 28, 2011 — Winners of the 2011 FringeNYC Overall [...]

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What The Sparrow Said (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 27, 2011 Festivals

      Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me? Wait a minute now – what? Just what is Danny Mitarotondo’s new play, What the Sparrow Said, at CSV Latea, trying to say? Or is it really trying not to say anything? The language has certainly been put through a crafty shredder, stripping it of any [...]

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Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin’ Rock Opera (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 26, 2011 Festivals

  Jersey Shore is a show on MTV that, in and of itself, is already parody – boldly mocking an easily mockable subculture known as the Guido and Guidette.  All executive producer SallyAnn Salsano had to do was sit back, let the cameras roll, and watch as these buff, well tanned, dark haired over-accessorized not-too-bright kids [...]

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74 Minutes Of Stereo Radio Theater (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 26, 2011 FRINGE 2011

    Schadenfreude, the German word meaning  pleasure derived from the pain and suffering of others could almost be a word to describe the dry, witty, quite thoughtful, and generally dark comedy of  74 Minutes of Stereo Radio Theater. This concept was wonderfully explained in Avenue Q  in 2003, but has been referenced in many other [...]

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Paper Cut (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 26, 2011 FRINGE 2011

At the conclusion of Yael Rasooly‘s one woman “paper and object theater” performance, Paper Cut, the small stage at CSV Kabayitos is littered with piles of crumpled, shorn and torn paper props. This destruction is testament to the intensive, energetic and exhaustive show the actress has just presented in the past fifty minutes. It moves [...]

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facebook me (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 25, 2011 Festivals

“Facebook me later …” is as ubiquitous a request these days as “Call me later … ” or “Text me later …”.  For most people Facebook has become their main source of communication these days.  Why, I’d even wager you found this review on Facebook. As adults we all know how we’re using it to [...]

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The Panic Diaries (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 24, 2011 Festivals

  Katie Northlich has that commanding sort of physical presence that can hold a room with ease. There is a boldness in her look, an assuredness in her movements that can compel you to watch, whether she’s meekly sipping a glass of tea, or absently raking a hand through her hair while at the end [...]

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Before Placing Me On Your Shelf (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Michelle Augello-Page August 24, 2011 Festivals

Before Placing Me on Your Shelf, a Lunar Energy production directed and conceived by Philip Gates and featuring the talents of Jonathan Horvath, Caitlin Johnston, Adam Scott Mazer, Josh Odsess-Rubin, Elizabeth Romanski, Theo Salter, and Nadia Sepsenwol, is inextricably tied to the poetry of James Tate. Nearly all of the dialogue in Before Placing Me [...]

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Virtual Solitaire (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 24, 2011 Festivals

As we get closer and closer to the futuristic realm of cyberpunk, that has been active in our collective imaginations since we first started understanding what computing was or what it could be, one has to ask the questions: What about the people it could hurt?  Would we even know what it meant to feel that [...]

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When The Sky Breaks 3D (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Michelle Augello-Page August 23, 2011 Dance

Break dancing, waving, popping, locking, and expanding the very definition of hip-hop style, the dancers in Decadancetheatre’s When the Sky Breaks 3D weave a radiant and essential story, moving beyond narrative dance and into an abstract world where environment is infused, challenged, and released through the body. When the Sky Breaks 3D is directed by [...]

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Top Drawer (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 22, 2011 Festivals

Behind many a lime-lit smile beats a bruised and battered heart. Adelaide Mestre, the singer and actress whose self-authored show, Top Drawer, is playing at the Bowery Poetry Club during the New York Fringe Festival, comes with a unique understanding of this dark knowledge. Scion of a socially prominent family, whose parents were both somewhat [...]

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