FringeNYC - "New York's Best Staycation"
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Let the summer days melt your mind into a world of absurdist theatre! Is hell really a cobbler in a cabinet, a made up musical, or other people? Perhaps only Fanny, Bertha, Art, and Princess Diana know. . . Get your paint out and your Dada on - it's an Absurdly Surrealist Dream Vacation. |
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666 PSYCODUCTIONS INC. IN ASSOCIATION WITH PRODUCIONES YLLANA Writer: YLLANA Collectively Director: David Ottone Four death row convicts meet their fate, and keep you laughing constantly without words. GREAT PSYCHO-VISUAL COMEDY. "TRULY FABULOUS-DISGUSTINGLY HYSTERICAL" Times, London "MASTERWORK OF BLACK HUMOR" L´Express, Paris "Might beat the boys to hell by laughing yourself to death." Scotsman, Edinburgh 1h 30m International Madrid, Spain Comedy www.yllana.com |
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A Fine Line More Sand Company, in association with Magnet Theater Writer: Emlyn Morinelli and Jennifer Sanders Director: Gary Rudoren "Triple life?! That's pretty f'ed up!" says Janice. Betty replies, "I guess I was just having one of those days..." Find out how this mild mannered administrative assistant winds up in prison in this rich character comedy. 0h 45m Local New York City, New York Comedy Improv/Sketch/Stand-up www.moresandco.com |
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A History of Cobbling Cobbled Productions Writer: Justin Klose and Cameron Reed Director: Bill Oliver In this fantastical comedy, Michael encounters a twelve-inch English cobbler on a deserted city street. He then races home to tell his eccentric wife, Loraine, only to find that she has made an unusual discovery of her own. 0h 45m Local Manhattan, NY Comedy Drama www.myspace.com/ahistoryofcobbling |
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A Rule of Nines BRK Productions Writer: Brian Kirchner Director: Christopher Triebel Recreating their memories, two young couples explore their tragic experiences in the ghostly light of human fantasy. How far will the mind go to absolve itself of guilt? 0h 45m National Doylestown, PA Drama Comedy www.briankirchner.com |
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A World Elsewhere! Arias in the Key of Clown Wide Eyed Productions Writer: Created by Ben Newman Director: Ben Newman This funny & inspirational ensemble collaboration depicts the migration of artists to NYC & all the possibilities therein. Inspired by traditional European clowning techniques, actors use movement & gibberish to tell the tale of love, loss and A World Elsewhere! 1h 0m Local Astoria, NY Clown/Mask Comedy www.wideeyedproductions.com |
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Afterlight Threads Theater Company Writer: Monica Flory Director: Misti Wills Twilight. A flutter, quick and light. A wolf howls. An accident. Ordinary lives collide with the supernatural. Inspired by surrealist photography, Afterlight is the story of a small community clinging to hope amidst unsettling events. 1h 30m Local Manhattan, NY Drama www.threadstheatercompany.org |
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ART'S HEART written and performed by Anthony Johnston Writer: Anthony Johnston Director: Nathan Schwartz My name is Art. I have an irregular heart. Beat. I live above the RedHotVideoXXX. Tonight- I confess my love to the handsome Frenchman across the street. Bonjour! IF my very serious heart condition doesn't kill me first. Seriously. "Skunks.Sex.Suicide." 1h 0m Local Brooklyn, NY Comedy Solo Show artsheart.squarespace.com/ |
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Baby Wants Candy The Improvised Musical with Full Band Baby Wants Candy Writer: Baby Wants Candy (Improvised Musical) Choreographer: Baby Wants Candy The audience shouts out titles of musicals that have never been performed before. The first title BWC hears becomes the title & basis for a 60-minute completely improvised musical. "Critic's Pick!"-TimeOut NY, "Don't Miss!"- Chicago Tribune, "Entertainment Phenomenon!"-The Scotsman. 1h 0m National Chicago IL and NYC, Comedy Musical www.babywantscandy.com |
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Baking with Bertha: Back to School Special Squeezebox Productions Writer: Michael Bowen and Sam Barber Director: Sam Barber Take the homespun humor of Garrison Keillor, add the cooking skills and stature of Julia Child, and toss in a little Ethel Merman and you have BERTHA MASON. BERTHA MASON is the creation of actor and pastry chef, Michael Bowen. 1h 20m National Chicago, IL Performance Art Comedy www.berthamason.com |
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Cephalopod: A Play Below Sea Level Ridge and Davis Presents Writer: Kyle Warren Director: Rebecca Stevens Castaway in her childrens' basement playroom, Mary finds herself submerged in buttered popcorn jellybeans, bottles of pills, and board game battles with Princess Diana. Mary struggles to stay afloat amid her pot-smoking Jewish mother, squid scientist husband, and the tides of loss. 1h 50m National Evanston, IL Drama Comedy www,playbelowsealevel.com |
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Dances In Funny AraFitzgerald & Claire Porter Writer: Ara Fitzgerald, Claire Porter and Collaborators Director: Ara Fitzgerald, Claire Porter Choreographer: Ara Fitzgerald, Claire Porter and Collaborators Five dancing ladies known for wit in movement and original text merge their thoughtful wackiness into an evening of serious comedic dance that promises to be darkly funny. Can funny life be darkly danced? Or is dark dance funnier? 1h 5m Local Manhattan, NY Dance Spoken Word/Poetry www.cportables.com |
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Dancing with Abandon Small Pond Entertainment Writer: Karen Hartman and Phil Lebovits Director: Jeremy Dobrish The "Oprah of Opera" hits rock bottom when her crazed abandoned rocker son returns and moons her at the Kennedy Center Honors! Scandal ignites, landing her diva ass in the nuthouse! A Rock 'n' Opera bio musical based on a true story. 2h 0m Local New York, NY Musical Comedy www.dancingwithabandon.com/ |
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Deathwatch The Dialectix Group Writer: Jean Genet, Translated by David Rudkin Director: Aaron Sparks Two men share a prison cell with a notorious killer. One is in love with him. One wants to become him. Four female actors explore Jean Genet’s Deathwatch in the U.S. premiere of Obie winning playwright David Rudkin’s translation. 1h 30m Local Brooklyn, NY Drama Comedy www.deathwatch.artistupgrade.com |
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Don't Be Scared! It's Only A Play Writer: Cory Antiel A solo show linking individual neurons, terror, memoir, amnesia, and lab rats that you will never forget. Until you do. The terror level has been elevated to fuchsia. Your mind will blow this show. 0h 55m Local Brooklyn, NY Solo Show FringeHIGH www.myspace.com/itsonlyaplay |
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Dream Lovers M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc. Writer: Albi Gorn Director: Albi Gorn, Robin Joseph, Michael Muldoon and Carol Eagen Fast-paced, fiery and fun. Are they having dream sex in their fantasy or fantasy sex in their dreams? 5 zany couples, 5 funny dates, 5 startling climaxes. "For those seduced by dialogue and character development." NY Times 2h 0m Local Yorktown Heights, NY Comedy Drama www.MMPACI.com |
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e-Station Théâtre du Rêve Expérimental Director: WANG Chong e-Station experiments on the extreme physical slowness that the late Japanese director Ohta Shogo initiated. It examines the complex relations between human body and electronic products. The Chinese avant-garde performance premiered in 2008 Beijing Fringe. 0h 55m International Beijing, China Performance Art Multi-Media sites.google.com/site/theatrere/estation |
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EGG FARM VITALITY Productions in Association with SLANT Theatre Project Writer: Bill Heck and Nick Mills Director: Wes Grantom Two actors: many people. Think Sweeney Todd meets Brecht meets YOU, set in a dark, funny, and bloody future. Come secure the success of humanity for only a small, one-time fee: YOUR LIFE. 1h 15m National Los Angeles, CA Comedy Drama vitality.publishpath.com |
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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Writer: Leah Hendrick Director: Morgan Gould Fanny, a 10,000 pound woman, is obsessed with food. But when her sense of taste vanishes, she is forced to confront her self-sabotage as the culprit ghosts of her past wriggle out from the underworld between her fat folds. 1h 25m Local , Comedy Drama www.elephantinthefringe.com |
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Ether Steeds Writer: Jason Williamson Director: Niegel Smith In this ritualistic performance set in coastal North Carolina - cheap beer, anonymous gentlemen and the ashes of the dearly departed spur Mamma and her venus-fly-trap obsessed daughter, Skeeta, toward the inevitable. 2h 30m Local Brooklyn, NY Drama Comedy sites.google.com/site/ethersteedsnyc |
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Finger Paint Plastic Flamingo Theatre Company Writer: Erin Austin & Ross Evans Director: Ross Evans It's just an apartment wall covered in paint. Symbols, memories, meanings. Ryan's leaving it behind. But when your art is alive, it fights back, makes you relive what you wish never happened, seducing you to see what could've been truth. 1h 40m Local Brooklyn, NY Comedy Drama plasticflamingo.org |
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Forest Maiden Writer: Nina Morrison Director: Nina Morrison A Maiden leaves her elf-dyke girlfriend in the forest. She is captured by a Knight and a Reality Show Host! They fight, fuck and text-message their way back to the Kingdom. A fable for the queer fantasy geek... in everybody. 1h 10m Local Brooklyn, NY Comedy Drama www.ninamorrison.com |
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Hatching Amanda Will and Sara Writer: Will Porter Director: Amanda Thompson Unable to pay her medical bills, Scarlett Duvall is taken to an unmarked building to work off her debt. Within minutes, Scarlett finds herself enveloped in a world of nurses, tazers, and man-eating lepers. Here, she must hatch an egg. 1h 15m Local Manhattan, NY Comedy Drama www.hatching2009.com |
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LOVE MONEY: A RECESSION ROCK MUSICAL The ZOO Writer: Created by Thompson Davis, Lucas Kavner and Willie Orbison Director: Aaron Gensler Choreographer: Rishabh Kashyap An audience favorite at Ars Nova's A.N.T. Fest last fall, LOVE MONEY is the story of one temp's fateful day at the troubled Bank of North America, where bailouts make billionaires and Belgian Poodles hold terrible, terrible secrets. 1h 40m Local BROOKLYN, NY Musical Comedy www.myspace.com/lovemoneymusical |
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Natural History Sweeter Theater Productions Writer: Ian August Director: Maura Farver Lucy is split between her overbearing mother, self-righteous boyfriend, and an anthropomorphized anthropological oddity. When Lucy is faced with a life changing choice, Natural History asks the question: are we doomed to repeat the decisions of the past? 2h 0m Local Manhattan, NY Drama Comedy www.sweetertheater.com |
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Photosynthesis Never Assume Productions Writer: Tim J. MacMillan Director: Terry Gsell Does your cat hate your boyfriend? Maybe he’s trying to tell you something. Welcome to a zany and clever look into a romance where your cat, plant and everything has a voice that questions why you fight, and why you love. 2h 0m Local Astoria, NY Comedy Drama neverassumeproductions.com |
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Poppy! An Enchanted Evening with Poppy Bulova Snake In The Boot Writer: Lillie Jayne Director: Lillie Jayne "Intriguing...otherworldly...sensual...improbable...stunning...disturbed...intoxicated." These words and more have been used to describe the legendary, beloved Poppy Bulova. Decide for yourself what makes the star so indescribable as she returns to the stage with her triumphant and oblique new cabaret. 1h 15m Local Brooklyn, NY Musical Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque |
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Population: 8 The Process Group and Purple Man Theater Company Writer: Nicholas Gray Director: Marc Stuart Weitz Everyone cleared out of Loki, North Dakota years ago. Here is the curious and singular account of the eight who remain. When eight become nine, then eight again, the Loki Eight must reckon between isolation and the modern world. 1h 50m Local Brooklyn, New York Comedy Drama www.theprocessgroup.org |
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Powerhouse Sinking Ship Productions Writer: Josh Luxenberg, Joshua Morris & the Ensemble Director: Jon Levin Enter the mind of brilliant composer Raymond Scott, whose life's work is hijacked by cartoonists. With swing dancing, puppetry and futuristic music machines. A new work from the creators of FringeNYC hit "There Will Come Soft Rains," Time Out five-star pick. 1h 30m Local Brooklyn, NY Drama Puppetry www.sinkingshipproductions.com |
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Quarterlife Cycle The Sandbox Theatre Company Supported by the Transatlantic Arts Consortium Writer: Amy Claussen After growing up a six-foot-tall redhead in the Indonesian jungle, Amy has hit her quarterlife crisis. With a lot of awkward and a few tears, she globetrots the four corners of her world: earth/home, water/beauty, fire/love, wind/loss. 1h 30m National Los Angeles, California Solo Show FringeHIGH www.amyclaussen.com/Productions/Pages/The_Quarter_Life_Cycle.html |
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Remission Inverse Theater Company Writer: Kirk Wood Bromley Director: Kirk Wood Bromley Choreographer: Leah Schrager Schizophrenic for 45 years, Dan Berkey suddenly saw a vision in the sky and went into remission. Experience the SZ journey thru Dan's true-story performance, written by two-time FringeNYC Excellence Award Winner, presented by "The Best Downtown Theater Company" (NYPress). 1h 30m Local Brooklyn, NY Solo Show Drama www.inversetheater.org/nowshowing.html |
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Series 6.2: Paint on Canvas HumanWell Productions Writer: Becca Hackett and Katherine Randle Director: Ilana Becker Armed with words and paint, two artists engage in a playful battle on a life-sized canvas. Tackling their greatest demons and joys, they bring new artwork to life with each unrestrained, paint slinging performance. Do YOU human well? 0h 35m Local Brooklyn, NY Performance Art www.humanwellproductions.com |
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The Aperture Cleveland Public Theatre Writer: Sean Christopher Lewis Director: Craig J. George Inaugural winner of the Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwright Award. In the woods outside of Baltimore, Alex McGregor is staging fake photos of war torn Uganda. Notoriety follows until her subject - a boy soldier refugee - reverts, committing a horrible crime. 0h 55m National Cleveland, OH Drama FringeHIGH www.aperturetheplay.com |
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The Death of Evie Avery Fine Feathered Friends Writer: Sara Jeanne Asselin, a riff on "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin Director: Melissa Firlit Is Evie alive or dead? Asleep or awake? Can she drift from loving mother to sexless, primitive monster? Will she reject her children, husband, friends and lovers? Who knows. Anyone up for a swim? 1h 40m Local Brooklyn, NY Drama Comedy www.finefeatheredfriendstheater.org |
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Woyzeck the gangbusters theatre company Writer: Georg Buchner adapted by Bob McDonald Director: Bob McDonald Director Bob McDonald's adaptation and the austere straightforwardness of his visionary production bring it sharply into a netherworld of cultural timelessness, sometimes conjuring an impression of Buchner's original time frame, sometimes feeling as contemporary as anything created today. -Backstage 1h 25m National Los Angeles, CA Drama FringeHIGH www.gangbusterstheatre.com |
