“Marriage is a very risky thing; it’s like Chancery, once in it, you can’t get out of it, and the costs are enormous,” bemoans Cheviot Hill at the thought of his potential engagement to three different women at the same time in W.S. Gilbert’s three-act farcical comic play, Engaged.  This witty play, presented by the […]

I was really looking forward to seeing The Von Pufferhutte Family Singers (the musical) because I really enjoyed the same company’s (I Like Nuts) production of Captain Squishy’s Yee Haw Jamboree last year. I’m sorry to say that this musical about a German family troupe who despise their competitors – the famous Van Trapp Family […]

With a title like Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque, I just couldn’t resist. The name alone represents all things Fringe! Risky titillation rubbing up against camp with a classy wink? I’m in. Not to mention the added benefit of watching people’s faces twist up in disgust as the title rolled off my tongue like the […]

This is what the Fringe is all about! Give Brian Sutow and Joshua Morgan  (of No Rules Theatre Company) some credit. They are adorable and nuts and they are just having a blast performing their show Assembly Required: How to Write, Produce, and Stage a Musical – The Musical. They have so much energy that […]

Commedia dell’arte, that venerable Italian theater form populated by masked stock characters and vaudevillian slapstick, makes for an interesting departure from conventional theater-going.  The energy is quick, light, and informal.  The actors roll with punches, figurative and literal.  The audience is allowed—encouraged, really—to be a character unto itself.

When the traditional roles of performers and audience members are challenged, the balance of power shifts, but then who has the upper hand? In Elephant, a performance art piece choreographed by Kelly Bond and danced by Bond, Lillian Cho, and Melissa Krodman, the performers break the fourth wall of the stage, in this case The […]

In acting class, teachers often ask students: “Where are you?” What they’re really asking is: What surrounds you? How does your environment impact your choices? Where are you coming from, and why? The more you know the answers to these questions, the more you are, definitively, anywhere at all.

What would happen if men and women were to switch roles in society? Assemblywomen by Aristophanes presented by No.11 Productions, aims at seeing if the grass is greener on the other side as men and women adopt the duties of the opposite sex.

Actor Ben Egerman is the last human on earth. You the audience member are part of a horde of killer robots who’ve decimated the populace and are now clamouring for his blood, but you won’t kill him as long as he keeps you entertained.

Sex is a very powerful thing, and face it gentlemen, the women are the ones that hold the power. One well planned headache and it is nothing but disappointment and a cold shower.  Even Aristophanes in 411B.C. knew that dangling sex like a carrot at the end of a stick creates the basis for some […]

Run Away with Me! is a high energy, fun-filled hour of amazing singing!  Terri Allen, Emily Leatha Everson, Justin Ritchie, and Lonny Smith razzle and dazzle the audience in this engaging and highly enjoyable cabaret show in the Baldacchino Gypsy Bar Tent.  If you love pop, jazz, country and Broadway show tunes, this show is […]