Paul Shearman's solo show about Shakespeare, the acting craft, and early-stage dementia is bathed in pathos of the best kind.
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Theater Reviews (NYC Fringe): ‘Who Does Your Laundry?’ and ‘How to Become a Saint (While Wearing Pants)’
A different kind of immigrant story plays out in a laundromat; immigrants to a heaven reserved for saints tell their origin stories in song and dance.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Eve Blackwater on ‘Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad Musical,’ NYC Fringe ‘Best Musical’ Winner
An updated version of the goth-folk songspiel is on stage now for Days of the Dead in NYC.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Fringe): Rachel Redleaf and ‘Too Much of a Good Thing’
A Jewish mother, a jeweled bra, and the Good Witch of the OR propel Rachel Redleaf's seriously comic, comically serious one-woman show.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Fringe): ‘Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad Musical’
A tongue-in-cheek meta-fable with music and a serious message offers a fresh take on murder ballads and the battles of the sexes.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Fringe): ‘One Woman Gone Wrong’ by Leslie Caveny
An achingly hilarious hour with a grouchy, Emmy-winning diva who has spent most of her career behind the camera.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Fringe Festival): ‘Life Without Parole’ by Warren Doody
Battered wife Helen Broker has been convicted of murdering her husband though she claims she was defending herself. Her story along with the testimony of other abused women who killed their spouses is the subject of this stunning play which uncovers the answer why women stay with such men and how they eventually search for freedom and a new identity.
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