Writer: Ernest Kearney
Valley Song
Fugard’s plays are celebrated, and justly so, because they awoke in audiences worldwide a righteous indignation over a government’s cruel and unjust maltreatment of an entire people.
In Valley Song, there is no cause for indignation, only an appeal for acceptance
CAMP GINGER
Though told with both sweetness and sincerity, the tale itself is one in which we are all very familiar, by now. However, while the tale may not be that exceptional, the teller most certainly is.
Blood Pig
I’m not sure if Playwright Devin Arnold has watched a little too much League of Gentlemen or not anywhere near enough. He may not even have a clue what I’m talking about should he read this —…
Mr. Malcolm's Music Factory
Ritchey’s show is a clever conceit that combines an education to the basic elements of musical composition, an introduction to the global musical styles and most important of all the value and potency of music for smoothing a troubled mind. Even if that troubled mind belongs to a six-year-old.
BREED OR BUST
This seems to me Raven’s greatest strength: that her forthright and direct approach to story-telling, with its heightened sense of honesty and effortless infusion of humor creates a sense of intimacy with an audience.
The Undiscovered Country: A Skeptic's Guide to the Afterlife
Larry Davidson's show about his near death experience is best when he drops the excess and is just just himself....
Camp Ginger: An Original Musical
Protean faced Steve Trzaska shows a flair for performing and a talent for characterization that is perfectly prodigious to behold.
Dying for Our Voices
I believe that Raven Kras who wrote and directed this work is sincere in her passion for this cause, but she needs to pull her ego out of this enterprise. She needs to engage and exploit the talents and abilities of others if she truly wants this effort to succeed.
DI Lady DI
Within the constraint of a single hour Munson takes us through Diana, Princess of Wales’ whole twisted history of a fairy tale gone horribly wrong....
THE TANNER
Alex McSherry takes his clue from Historian John Keegan’s classic work The Face of Battle, in his rousing narration of the battles of William Wallace (Braveheart) ...
Vincerò - The Italian Opera Experience on the Fringe!
Germán Gholami, Diana Silova, Asuka Uchida and Natalja Sticco are the real deal, and frankly I cannot remember when I’ve heard such stunningly powerful singers on a stage the size of the McCadden Theatre.
Cassandra
Cassandra has a good deal going for it. The notion of creating a musical about the tragic heroine of Greek myth Cassandra employing the music of Patti Smith is immediately intriguing.
Too Big For Her Britches
Pezik’s transitions from character to character are dynamically delineated facilitating both the dramatic and comedic aspects of her story.
Call Me Elizabeth
The production, directed by Erin Kraft is exceedingly well mounted, and Boye captures Taylor to perfection.
A Terrible Show for Terrible People
I am a self-confessed sucker for good clowning and Bonnie He offers that up. Better still she offers up “nasty” good clowning!
DOG
Playwright/Performer Ben Moroski had thrilled and disturbed past Fringe audiences with work such as The Wake and TILT, and now DOG adds another notch to his well-notched belt.
Housewife '52
In recreating— for those of us who suffered through the stagnation of the Eisenhower Era— and displaying it to others who were spared it, by showing how far we have progressed, John Wuchte and his partner Michael Teoli have given us all a reason to celebrate.
Metamorphoses
The production of Mary Zimmerman’s lauded adaptation, directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, captures and encapsulates a sense of the sprawling structure of Ovid’s original work, and more significantly encases it in a sense of relevance and modernity.
Wakings!
What one must acknowledge about this evening are the exquisite performances of all the actors, however, in that regard the first act does over power the second with Bottitta and O’Toole near perfect in their clashing interplay and Lawson a maelstrom onto himself as Van Winkle.
Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy
Actress/Playwright Almanya Narula’s choice of subject matter shows a keen sense of what is both the dramatic and commercial. Noor Inayat Khan: The Forgotten Spy is a tale of espionage, taken from the annals of World War II, that involves the antithesis of the iconic James Bond.