FRINGE 2011

The Three Times She Knocked (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 15, 2011 Festivals

How innocently these things can start … a knock on the door, a simple question, met with a glance that – to the person meeting those eyes – may appear to linger too long or bore in too deeply.  Is this the beginning of a forbidden love affair between two already-married co-workers?  Or just the [...]

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I Light Up My Life: The Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 14, 2011 Festivals

  Oh, you’ll love walking into the theatre at Dixon Place to watch I Light Up My Life: The Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography – Mark Sam Rosenthal’s (Celebrity!) solo show.  The music is cranking with such anthems as The Pussycat Dolls “When I Grow Up”, Katy Perry’s “Firework” and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and [...]

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Ampersand: A Romeo & Juliet Story (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 14, 2011 Festivals

Ampersand: A Romeo & Juliet Story (written by Mariah MacCarthy, directed by Amanda Thompson)  is just that … “A”  Romeo & Juliet story – not a 100% faithful retelling of THE Romeo and Juliet story.  First of all, Romeo and Juliet are both women.  So, right away, by making this a gender-issue play and bringing [...]

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CRAVING (Fringe Festival 2011)

by The Happiest Medium August 14, 2011 Festivals

The Happiest Medium Review by guest contributors Anjali Koppal and Saurabh Paranjape     Craving, writer/performer Delphine Brooker’s one-act, one-woman play about her own battle with anorexia and bulimia, is a unique animal. Rather than indulging in the kind of pedantic damnation of outside societal influences that one expects, Brooker chooses to frame her narrative [...]

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Hamlet (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 14, 2011 Festivals

Perhaps director Greg Foro and the BAMA Theatre Company could not have asked for a better setting than the Connelly Center’s Connelly Theatre on East 4th Street to stage their production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A miniature old world theatre stage, complete with grinning classical masks on a battered, gray painted proscenium, it quietly, without the [...]

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FRINGE To The Left Of Me … FRINGE To The Right Of Me: Will We See You There?

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 11, 2011 Festivals

Nothing gets us more excited at THM than a festival, and when it comes to festivals, Fringe is the one we wait for all year … the way other people wait for Christmas.  Silly, silly Christmas-waiting people.  Sure, getting presents is fun … for a while.  But running around from theatre to theatre seeing what [...]

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