Anna rates it:
With a Fringe Festival containing a plethora of shows that run the theatrical gamut from absurd comedy to overblown drama, who doesn’t love a show with free boob cupcakes at the end? [Read more...]
GS-14
July 14, 2009 By 3 Comments
Ben rates it:
A comedy about a frustrated government manager breaking all the rules to accomplish something worthwhile sounds like a satisfying premise, right? I was definitely excited to see Jason Ford’s GS-14, given my own interest in politics and government. [Read more...]
Cabaret CooCoo
July 14, 2009 By 2 Comments
Christopher rates it:
I wish every Saturday evening ended in juggling, magic tricks, dancing, and gaudy singing. But, on this special occasion, I got to watch professionals and spare myself embarrassment of actually attempting these feats. The sold-out Saturday Fringe crowd went coo-coo for Cabaret CooCoo! [Read more...]
Vincent
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Marcia rates it:
Vincent. Can you hear that name and not think of sunflowers and madness; a disfigured ear? There is so much more to Vincent Van Gogh, and who better to tell the true story than his own brother. [Read more...]
Bag Lady
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Mo rates it:
Who is the bag lady? That is the question that Sanctuary Theater attempts to answer in the aptly named one-woman show. As Clara, the bag lady, begins to empty out the contents of her bag, [Read more...]
Closet Land
July 14, 2009 By 1 Comment
Mo rates it:
Who doesn’t love a dystopian, tyrannical government? I know I sure do.
Though the central character of the Molotov Theater Group’s production of Closet Land may not share my zeal for Orwellian authority and who can really blame her? [Read more...]
The Tempest: A Musical
July 14, 2009 By 1 Comment
Steven rates it:
The Tempest is another fine performance of a classical work from the accomplished company The Rude Mechanicals. The incorporation of Celtic music only adds to pleasure of the piece. [Read more...]
dark play, or stories for boys
July 14, 2009 By 2 Comments
In the famous Peter Steiner cartoon, the family pooch has climbed onto a chair and is hovering over the keyboard of a computer. “On the Internet,” he explains to his canine buddy, “nobody knows you’re a dog.”
In Carlos Murillo’s dark play, nobody knows what the hell anybody else is, but they are willing to believe, [Read more...]
Life Inside an Open Kaije
July 14, 2009 By 1 Comment
Tzvi rates it:
Life Inside an Open Kaije bills itself as a play about growing up with diabetes, and so we enter the theater with certain expectations. We imagine, naively, that prolonged suffering generates profound art, [Read more...]
Magnum Opus
July 14, 2009 By 1 Comment
Anna rates it:
Love, jealousy, writer’s block and all the madness and muses that fall in between elevate Michael Oberhauser’s contemporary opera Magnum Opus to epic proportions. [Read more...]
