solo show

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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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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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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The Hyperbolist – Believe The Hype (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson March 3, 2011 Festivals

  As you enter The Red Room, the small black box theater space upstairs from KGB Bar, to attend The Hyperbolist, don’t be surprised to find performer/auteur Joe Mazza already there waiting to personally greet you. His is an undeniable presence, crackling with the energy of the irrepressible performer, eager to shake hands, quip with [...]

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Year Of The Slut – It Was A Very Long Year (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Diánna Martin March 3, 2011 FRIGID 2011

Jennifer Lieberman’s one-woman show, Year of the Slut, is an odyssey through the life of a young Canadian getting her feet wet in the bright lights and big city of New York. The main things on her mind besides getting her acting career in high gear is to successfully 1) lose her virginity 2) survive [...]

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I Love You (We’re F*#ked) (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson March 1, 2011 Festivals

Kevin J. Thornton nimbly takes the stage at 4 in the afternoon for another performance of his one-man show, I Love You (We’re F*#ked). “It’s early in the day, isn’t it?” he asks. “I feel like I’ve just gotten up.” And looking at him, with a slight rawness around the eyes and a gracefully rumpled [...]

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ONEymoon – Is ONE Enough? (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Antonio Miniño February 28, 2011 FRIGID 2011

The road to self can be a very bumpy one – even bumpier is the road to finding your other half – unless that other half is yourself? The need for that special someone is the favorite topic of most of our happiest mediums, being the center crux in hundreds of books, movies and theatre. [...]

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Classically Trained, Practically Broke – Beautifully Done (Fringe Festival 2010)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 16, 2010 Festivals

Get seated early to see Classically Trained, Practically Broke (Franca Vercelloni’s solo show, directed by Myrna E. Duarte and John David West) and you’ll get an earful of what Franca is subject to on a nightly basis – the caterwauling of half drunk patrons who gather around her piano at the bar she works at and [...]

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Omarys Concepcion Lopez Perez Goes To Israel (To Speak To God At The Wailing Wall) – (Fringe Festival 2010)

by Antonio Miniño August 16, 2010 Festivals

This one woman show at the New York International Fringe Festival is the stuff we live for here at The Happiest Medium; as managing director Karen Tortora-Lee will tell you, our mission is to highlight, showcase and celebrate our favorite medium, and that is exactly what writer/performer Leila Arias does in Omarys Concepcion Lopez Perez [...]

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