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The FringeNYC Festival shuttered with its last production performances on 28 October: 'The Resistible Rise of JR Brinkley,' Edward Einhorn's take-off on a Bertol Brecht classic served as the festivals' apt exclamation point.

This fine new production uses an admirable new translation from the French that stays close to the original, giving us Wilde indeed, flaws and all.

The Department of Fools aims to relate the history of the world from the point of view of the servants in this stab at updated commedia dell'arte.

The text of this well-staged new adaptation strikes a smile-inducing, attention-grabbing, and surprisingly believable balance between literary authenticity – this is indeed Euripides' play in all its essentials – and contemporary informality and even snark.

Joe Mazza's melange of puppetry, silent film, and vaudeville effectively fuses avant-garde philosophizing with the pulling of heartstrings.

Fine operatic singing fails to rescue this bumpy production of Schiller's tale of Joan of Arc.