Created by 600 Highwaymen for Talking Band Featuring Ellen Maddox & Paul Zimit Perelman Performing Arts Center February 16, 2024 Production website ๐๐๐๐๐ out of 5.
The Following Evening was a piece of theatre history and theatre magic.ย ย Theatre legends were working alongside the cutting edge of theatre present.ย ย The production was created by 600 Highwaymen โ one of perhaps the most exciting experimental theatre companies in the world stage today.ย ย Highwaymenย (Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone) have been making performances since 2009. Their work โย ย which blends theater, dance, contemporary performance, and civic encounters โ illuminates the magic and potential of people coming together.
Yira, Yira Co-Directed by Bruno Isakovic and Natisa Rajkovic Queer New York International Arts Festival at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYC February 7, 2024 Production website ๐๐ out of 5.
Yira, Yira was more of a doc-theatre piece than an actual play. Co-directors Bruno Isakoviฤ and Nataลกa Rajkoviฤ spent several months with four Argentinian sex workers, leading to their theater piece, Yira, Yira(Cruising, Cruising,) which reveals aspects of sex work and fights against some of the stereotypes we have.ย Performed by actual sex workers – 2 men, 1 woman, and 1 transvestite – we enter the world of sex work defined both by personal choice and circumstances. We also become aware that at the same time, we are talking about their work conditions in general, demand and supply, healthcare, and other benefits afforded to any other working person in Argentina.
Wounded by Jiggs Burgess Directed by Del Shores P3 Theatre Company February 4, 2024 Production website ๐๐ out of 5.
Wounded is one of the rare productions at a Fringe Festival that is a traditional play with a protagonist and a forward moving plot. The story revolves around a โwoundedโ man, Carrol, who over-compensates with everything (food, affectation, gossip, babble, etc.) to make up for feeling like a nobody.ย Soon to enter is his high school classmate, Robert, equally โwoundedโ now an addict, living with the parents – – in his fifties unable to get started in life.ย The play focuses on how an unhealed past simply feasters and feasters until it damages everything its path. ย
Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw Written by Zoe Ann Jordon Music and Lyrics by Patrick Spencer & Anthony De Angelis Directed by Stephanie Rosenberg AMT Theatre September 17, 2023 Production website NO ๐ out of 5. โ TOTAL POISON
This was, without question, THE VERY WORST PLAY/MUSICAL that I have EVER seen in NYC.ย It was a torture unlike any torture that the Saw movie franchise could have ever devised.ย Here are just 10 of the reasons sitting in this musical made me want to โsawโ my arm off and run to the streets of NYC shouting, โFree at last!ย Thank God; Free at last.โ
Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel Written and performed by Tim Crouch Fringe Encore Series by the Soho Playhouse January 5, 2023 Production website ๐๐ out of 5.
This was a weird one – even for the land of Fringe Theatre.ย The heart of the play was one man, Tim Crouch wearing a virtual reality set of goggles.ย With the goggles on he places himself in the role of the Fool in Shakespeareโs King Lear.ย He describes being in the actual role during a live performance of Lear where actors and scenes are playing around him as he describes what he is experiencing. ย Perhaps even more interesting was his X-ray like vision of the audience.ย