A couple of productions from promising young artists are making their world premieres at this year's Fringe, and the results are exciting.
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Hollywood Fringe 2017 Theater Reviews: ‘Robot Monster: The Musical’ and ‘Slashed! the Musical’
Two new musical comedies based on genre films make their world premieres at the Fringe.
Read More »Hollywood Fringe 2017 Theater Reviews: ‘The New Bad Boys of Magic’ and ‘Airplane Live!’
The jive-talking 'brothers' of the original 'Airplane!' movie have been replaced by millennial sisters who speak in incomprehensible shorthand while taking duck-faced selfies.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie’
Is this land your land or is it the banker's land?
Read More »Hollywood Fringe 2017 Reviews: World Premiere Comedies ‘Uncle Henry’ and ‘Zombie Clown Trump’
A hit-or-miss political satire and a freewheeling improv comedy are among the shows making their world premieres at this year's Hollywood Fringe.
Read More »Playwright Paula Vogel (‘Indecent’ on Broadway) in Conversation with Linda Winer
There has been such enthusiasm for the production since Yale (2015) that the ensemble, the musicians, the stage manager, and the assistants have remained together. As Vogel says, “We’ve all moved together as one.”
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Hunger Artist’
Boisterously funny and chokingly sad, Sinking Ship Productions' new adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story follows the original rather closely, yet through pure showmanship it defies expectation at almost every turn.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Maps for a War Tourist’
The true story of 'the girl with the red foulard,' killed fighting with the PKK against the so-called Islamic State just as this production prepared to mount, takes its place in the connected and seemingly neverending sagas of the war on terror and the struggle for self-determination in the face of what may seem destiny.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Whirligig’ by Hamish Linklater
Linklater's new tragicomedy doesn't sustain its dreamy magic consistently, but it offers much to appreciate.
Read More »A Day of ‘Hamilton’ with Students and Teachers at the Hamilton Education Program in New York City
'Hamilton'-inspired poems and songs by NYC high school students preparing to see the Broadway musical reminded us that we must continue to fight for freedom.
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