Jerry Springer the Opera

  • Jerry Springer: The Opera
  • Music by Richard Thomas . Book and lyrics by Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas
  • Directed by Keith Alan Baker
  • Co-director/Choreography by Matthew Gardiner
  • Produced by Studio 2ndStage
  •  Reviewed by Gary McMillan

Jerry Springer, television personality: inane, profane, insane.  Studio Theatre’s Jerry Springer: The Opera: audacious, outrageous, stupendous. [Read more...]

Heidi Blickenstaff

From Meet John Doe, to Little Mermaid to [title of show].  [Read more...]

Fringe Wrapup

Well, the shows are over, the Fort Fringe tents have come down, and we imagine the Fringe crew is off on a well-deserved break.  But not before they announced their Pick of the Fringe winners voted on by you, the audience. [Read more...]

Fringe Scene Stealers 3

South Asian American Dance

  • South Asian American Dance  
  • Reviewed by Danielle Martin

 Tehreema Mitha Dance Company combined classic South Asian dance with contemporary concepts innovating both form and the notion of borders [Read more...]

You Must Remember These

  • The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Bash’d, Damn Yankees and Broadway’s Rising Stars
  • by Richard Seff

 Two Chris Durang plays in a week! Mr. Durang is raking it in from these two early plays alone.   Proof that one’s children can be of help in one’s older age. [Read more...]

Thicker than Water

  • Thicker than Water  
  • Reviewed by Tim Treanor

 A Fringe Festival invites artists to take risks, and undertake radically innovative techniques to remake storytelling anew. In Thicker than Water, writer-actor Annie Houston uses the riskiest, most radical, and oldest storytelling technique of all: honesty. [Read more...]

Gasoline Hits $10 a Gallon

  • eXtreme eXchange: Gasoline Hits $10 a Gallon    
  • by Danielle Martin

eXtreme eXchange’s Fringe offering Gasoline Hits $10 a Gallon took over Woolly’s mainstage yesterday in partnership with the Fringe Training Factory. [Read more...]

Songs of My Life

Songs of My Life/Going Against the Flow 
Reviewed by Miranda Hall

In the green-purple darkness of the 9:30 Club, languages mingle coolly above casual pre-show music. A trim woman wearing a black dress with enviable twirl potential snakes knowingly through the crowd. [Read more...]

One for the Road

One For The Road  
Reviewed by Hunter Styles

Aristotle insisted that a tragedy should evoke “pity and fear.” At its best, drama may stir a sense of humanity in those who bear witness. Something’s been lost, then, [Read more...]