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• 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. (more…)

From Meet John Doe, to Little Mermaid to [title of show].  (more…)

 

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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. (more…)

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• 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 (more…)

• 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. (more…)

• 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. (more…)

• 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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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, (more…)