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The Happiest Medium review by guest contributor Katelyn Manfre For those of us tucked up in the Northeast part of the country, Hurricane Katrina is a distant memory, a tragedy of nearly a decade ago. But for those still feeling the effects down South its presence is constant. Siobhan O’Louglin gives a voice to the [...]

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  David Lawson’s solo show, VCR Love, had a limited engagement recently at The Brick Theater.  Bold and innovative, this show explored the consequences, both positive and negative, of the increasing availability of porn in American society as seen through his own experiences. The story begins with Lawson’s first “exposure” to explicit nudity at the impressionable [...]

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  Man Saved By Condiments by Mary Jo Pehl is a dramatization of the true story of a man whose car went off a bridge while he was on his way to work.  With a broke his hip, no cell phone and no one aware of where he was, he survived for five days by eating [...]

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Big Girls Don’t Cry: Laughing On The Outside (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium February 29, 2012 Festivals

The Happiest Medium review by guest contributor Katelyn Manfre. Canadian import Rachelle Elie enjoys being a woman. She especially enjoys her run-of-the-mill feminine pastimes: trying on sparkly dresses with eye makeup to match, dancing seductively to Ke$ha on a fur carpet, and hydrating with imported bottled water. She’s married to an Obstetrician/Gynecologist, has two lovely [...]

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Love In The Time Of Chlamydia: Love And War Stories (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium February 29, 2012 Festivals

The Happiest Medium review by guest contributor Katelyn Manfre It’s tough out there for a single girl. It’s especially tough out there for a single girl with a habit of substance abuse and an absent father. But Nicole Pandolfo bravely lays it on the line for us in Love in the Time of Chlamydia running [...]

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Big Plastic Heroes: Good Things Come In Big Plastic Packages (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by Karen Tortora-Lee February 28, 2012 Festivals

  To say I was “pleasantly surprised” by Slash Coleman‘s solo show Big Plastic Heroes currently playing at UNDER St. Marks as part of the FRIGID Festival is an understatement.  All signs pointed to this show being a raucous, self-aggrandizing narcissistic sausage-fest devoted to testosterone-ladened cultural touchstones and overblown Americana.  After all, the artwork for the [...]

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I Married A Nun! – And That’s Just The Beginning … (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium February 27, 2012 Festivals

The Happiest Medium Review by Guest Contributor Katelyn Manfre People are always telling D’yan Forest to “act her age.” For her, that is simply unacceptable. At 77 years young, when D’yan has seen, experienced, and gone to bed with so much of the world, she simply hasn’t been able to settle into her age. In [...]

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I’m Only Explaining This Once: A Rosen By Any Other Name … (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by Karen Tortora-Lee February 27, 2012 Festivals

Not everyone got the kind of name that looks good on a marquee or sounds good in the sentence ” … and the award for best actor goes to …”.  And let’s all just admit it now: no one really knew how to pronounce “Gyllenhaal” till several movies in, and even then it took TWO [...]

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I’m Only Explaining This Once: 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium February 18, 2012 Festivals

Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? I’m Only Explaining This Once Written & Performed by Moe Rosen – New York, NY Hi I’m Moe. I changed my name last year. This show is about why. It’s hard to explain, so I like to do it in large groups to [...]

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Little Lady: 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium February 1, 2012 Festivals

Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?   Little Lady The transformation of Cirque Du Soleil performer and Celine Dion dancer to performer generated theater artist is mirrored in this dark, comic and at times grotesque fable about our modern obsession with image. The exquisite movement skills of Lafond juxtapose [...]

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I Married A Nun: 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium January 31, 2012 Festivals

Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?   I Married A Nun! A one-woman show that dramatically depicts D’yan’s search for love and meaning in life, finding the answers—at age 77—in the smoldering cabarets and demimonde of Paris. With humor, art and her ukulele, she reveals the truth that’s valid [...]

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GARBO: 4 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (Times Square International Theater Festival 2012)

by The Happiest Medium January 17, 2012 Festivals

  GARBO Writer: Joe Gulla Director: Brian Rardin This short comedy/drama tells the story of Joe, a gay New Yorker enjoying an extended holiday in Rome, Italy. Like any foreigner who visits the Eternal City, Joe’s daily life is filled with ever-changing sensorial delights – culture shock at its best! But, it is not until [...]

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Mad Women By John Fleck

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson December 5, 2011 Manhattan

Does being a “fan” always mean that in some sense you are intrinsically a “fanatic”? There is ample, and shocking evidence at this point in the twenty-first century to suggest that there is, well, to some degree, a measure of being “touched” in our adoration of public and performing figures, aka “celebrities”. Some performers, of [...]

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23 Feet In 12 Minutes: Redux – A Fringe Festival Success Story

by Stephen Tortora-Lee November 16, 2011 Festivals

15 months ago I had the opportunity to review 23 Feet In 12 Minutes as it premiered in the 2010 NYC Fringe Festival.   Since then this show has made it to New Orleans and back with some wonderful work-shopping in the Cape Cod Theatre Project along the way. It came back to New York as [...]

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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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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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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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