All posts by Josh Fixler:
The Hunchback Variations
Miss Teen Jesus Pageant
Showcase Showdown
Losing It
Zero Hour
A solo show is a difficult thing to pull off. It is a monumental task for one person to keep an audience engaged for a whole show, and the line between wonderful and dreadful is razor thin. [Read more...]
In the Flesh
I find it hard to review modern dance. I appreciate modern dance as a reaction to classical movment concepts. I took a class in college on modern dance. I really do like modern dance. I just have a hard time figuring out what to say about it in a review. [Read more...]
Captain Squishy’s Yee Haw Jamboree!
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Finally, proof that a Fringe musical can be genuinely good. Not just a show I can find the good in, but one that is good from start to finish. And all this from a show with the title Captain Squishy’s Yee Haw Jamboree? [Read more...]
Pepe! The Mail Order Monkey Musical
Ok. I say this as big fan of musical theater, but musicals are silly. The whole convention of singing when you should be talking is sublimely odd. It is a peculiar form, but wonderfully so. [Read more...]
The Escapades of Farty Johnson
There’s a certain, ineffable quality of some shows that I can only describe as “fringyness”. It is hard to say what makes a show fringy. Certainly there are some theatrical conventions that are fringier than others. [Read more...]
2 Shorts in Black and White
I was excited to get two shows for the price of one when we went to see the production of 2 Shorts in Black and White. How neat to get to see two plays from veteran writer, Scot Walker. [Read more...]











