Waiting for Waiting For Godot is less a spoof of Beckett's play than it is a knowing comic riff on the life of an actor. Its 80 minutes are full of inside jokes (though hardly obscure) about the theater.. Beckett's metaphor about the anxieties of modern life becomes in Dave Hanson's hands a representation of the anxieties of a career on stage.
In TRIASSIC PARQ: THE MUSICAL, an unexpected… umm… 'protuberance' on a previously-female T-Rex brings chaos and division to the dino tribe. In search of an explanation for this growing problem, an adventurous and naive young Velociraptor appeals to Science and Faith for answers. Featuring power ballads, Veloci-rapping, and dinosaur roars, TRIASSIC PARQ is a sexy, gender-bending rock musical about how 'life finds a way.'
The 2013 New York International Fringe Festival has its first break-out hit with Ted Cubbin's new comedy The Rufus Equation, a world premiere production directed by Tom Ridgely, the Drama Desk-nominated director and co-founder of Waterwell. The Rufus Equation continues at The Connelly Theater (220 East 4th Street, NYC), tonight, August 21 at 2:00 p.m., and Friday, August 23 at 2:00 p.m. Check out a first look at the cast in action below!
In 17 days, even the most intrepid theatergoer can only sample a fraction of the nearly 200 offerings at the New York International Fringe Festival. Now in its 9th year, the FringeNYC Encore Series gives theatre lovers another chance at seeing some of the most critically acclaimed and most crowd-pleasing shows from the Festival.
This weekend, dinosaurs are taking over Chapel Hill. Presented by Wagon Wheel Arts, catch Triassic Parq at the Kenan Theatre at the Center for Dramatic Art in Chapel Hill. I had the chance to peek in on a rehearsal and talk to a few cast members to get a glimpse of what audiences will see this coming weekend.
Captiva Arts is proud to present UNBIDDEN, written (on a Fulbright grant to Iceland) and directed by Joanne Hudson, presented as part of the 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival FringeNYC. In this experimental production, with the help of the Vofa (Icelandic rock spirits) the cast and crew of UNBIDDEN will deconstruct the brain of brilliant geneticist, Dr. Julia Lamb, as she unwinds the threads of ambition, betrayal and love that have led her to self-exile on a remote Icelandic island, while suffering from the, early onset Alzheimer's, disease she had sought to cure.
Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present a staged reading of Christina Gorman's Far From the Trees, directed by Tim Raphael, tonight, August 21 at 7:30pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, Mass.). There is no charge for admission, however, Berkshire Playwrights Lab suggests a $10.00 donation to help offset its programming costs. For reservations, call 413.528.0100 or visit the Mahaiwe box office in person.
Among the 200 plays and musicals appearing at August's New York International Fringe Festival, there is one very unexpected production - a new Russian-language opera by the impressive 26-year old Russian composer Polina Nazaykinskaya.
TWO EVENTS THIS MONTH because we can't get enough of you, and also us. Tonight, August 21st, it's The How I Learned Series side project, 'BEST IN SHOW,' followed by 'HOW I LEARNED TO BREAK ALL THE RULES' on Wednesday, August 28th. Keep scrolling for more info than you even know what to do with. Then come out and see us.
unbidden is a memory play about a mind losing its memory. It is currently running at The New York International Fringe Festival now through August 25th, 2013. BroadwayWorld has photos of the cast in action below!
Rati Gupta is set to bring her Hollywood Fringe and FringeNYC hit NOT ANOTHER TEEN SOLO SHOW to Chicago's own Fringe Festival for a series of performances beginning on August 29 at Hold The Pickles Stage.
BWW Reviews New York International Fringe Festival's Peter Pan and the Stardust Dances, a tale of Peter Pan, Esmerelda, and floating lanterns told in five acts.
About two dozen plays, hot off their hit runs at the 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival, are ready to be discovered by the rest of the world. Martin Denton, founder and editor of Indie Theater Now, announced the first 12 script titles that will be included in this collection, representing the diversity, vibrancy, invention, energy, and fun of FringeNYC.
The 17th annual The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America continues through August 25, 2013. The festival offers programming from 185 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies in 20 venues in downtown Manhattan. With attendance topping 75,000 people, FringeNYC is New York City's fifth largest annual public event (just behind NY International Auto Show, Tribeca Film Fest, NYC Marathon, and Comic Con). Shows represent 13 countries and 17 U.S. states, plus an array of genres including drama, comedy, classical theater, dance, performance art, puppetry, clowning, and children's theater. A complete schedule of performances is available at www.FringeNYC.org.
Captiva Arts presents UNBIDDEN, written (on a Fulbright grant to Iceland) and directed by Joanne Hudson, presented as part of the 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival FringeNYC. Check out a first look below!
Nuclear apocalypse, world wide pandemics, being forced to wear your older sister's snow suit. Being a kid is not for the weak. Storyteller and Host Brad Lawrence leads you through the mine fields and school buses of pre-adolescence and shows how being a somewhat high-strung youngster makes you better than the A-Team with a MacGyver guest spot when it comes to turning anything into a weapon.
It's gay; it's camp; it's Gay Camp! Following its sold-out run as part of the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival and subsequent Fringe Encore Series, the show's creators are returning with an even more laugh-packed run of the hit play Gay Camp, opening at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre tonight, August 17, 2013 at 6:30pm.
If 'Someone To Belong To,' a musical about advertising copywriters in the 1960s, seems to be capitalizing on the popularity of 'Mad Men,' the story behind this Fringe show is actually far more interesting than that.
William, A One-Man Musical About Shakespeare, opens Saturday at the New York International Fringe Festival New York, NY - Saturday August 17, 2013.
Bridge Theatre Group is proud to present Joe Martin's SOUNDWAVES: The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan, a semi-finalist at the O'Neill National Playwriting Competition, under the direction of Adrian Roman as part of FringeNYC, August 9th - 25th 2013.
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