FringeNYC - "New York's Best Staycation"
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Worried because school is about to start and you haven't gotten through your summer reading list? Put on your backpack and stroll down Literary Lane - where you'll meet Voltaire, Shakespeare, Melville, Ginsberg, Grimm, Poe, Buchner, and a literary imposter. |
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1-900-SELFPLEX Elixir Productions Theatre Company Writer: Alex DeFazio Director: Jody P. Person Dial into the imagination where the self is as slippery as the myriad stories constructing it. In 1-900-SELFPLEX, a 40-year-old writer/"sexpert" finds herself – and subsequent worldwide celebrity – by assuming the identity of a transgendered, teenage boy. 1h 10m Local Jersey City, NJ Drama Comedy www.elixirproductions.org |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream The BAMA Theatre Company in association with The Figments Productions Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Peter Macklin, Assistant Director: Erik Andrews Not the fluffy fairytale you thought- 8 actors magically morphing from a caustic duke to a mischievous sprite, all out of 1 suitcase. This Alabama Company takes a breath at the top and doesn't exhale until the curtain comes down, y'all! 2h 15m National Montgomery, AL Comedy FringeHIGH www.bamatheatrecompany.org |
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Candide Americana Rabbit Hole Ensemble Writer: Stanton Wood Director: Edward Elefterion Our immigrant hero Candide's epic journey leads him through 9/11, Katrina, white supremacists, Arab-seeking lynch mobs, abortion clinic bombings, self-immolating activists, the no-fly terrorist list, hijackers, and ponsy schemes. Is this REALLY the best of all possible worlds? 1h 30m Local Brooklyn, NY Comedy Drama www.rabbitholeensemble.com |
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Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! Fredrick Byers Productions Writer: Danny Ashkenasi and Herman Melville Director: Nick Martorelli The Siren call of a mysterious cock lures an excitable, debt-ridden landowner on a quirky journey of discovery. Adapted from Melville's funny, baffling story by the winner of the FringeNYC '06 Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics. 1h 15m Local Brooklyn, NY Musical Comedy www.ashkenasi.net/cock |
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Don't Step on the Cracks Five Flights Theater Company Writer: Created by the Ensemble Director: Eryck Tait Troubles arise as the journey of ten twenty-somethings is interrupted by the monster lurking in the darkness: maturity. Infused with the whimsy of children’s stories they grapple with their newfound realities. Is growing up all it’s cracked up to be? 1h 45m Local New York, NY Comedy Drama www.fiveflightstheatercompany.org |
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Kaddish (or The Key in the Window) Created & Performed by Donnie Mather Writer: Allen Ginsberg Director: Kim Weild A guilt ridden son. A mother's battle with mental illness. Hospitals. A lobotomy. Ginsberg's poem KADDISH springs to life in this multi-media performance that is equal parts memory play, confession, and eulogy. 1h 30m Local Manhattan, NY Drama Solo Show www.donniemather.blogspot.com |
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M: An adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for three actors Lady M Productions Writer: William Shakespeare, adapted by Robert Monaco Director: Robert Monaco "something wicked this way comes" as The Three Witches morph into every Character using black magic and prophetic visions to spin the tale of Macbeth in this abridged adaptation of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy. 1h 40m Local Carteret, NJ Drama FringeHIGH rjmscenicdesign.googlepages.com/mtheplay |
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Mutti's After Supper Stories Theater of the Grasshopper Writer: Iris Rose, Adapted from the Brothers Grimm, Music and Lyrics by Hugh Hales-Tooke Director: Iris Rose Welcome to Mutti's house, where Noelle McGrath DePaula and her remarkable children, Juliet, Colin and Lily, perform five funny, scary and very German Grimm's fairy tales. This handcrafted and heartfelt production features original songs-some witty, some melancholy and beautiful. 1h 30m Local Manhattan, NY FringeJR Musical theaterofthegrasshopper.org |
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Professor Ralph's Loss of Breath Playlab NYC Writer: Professor Ralph Director: Kevin P. Hale Based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Mr. Lackobreath is the luckiest man alive, but soon after his wedding his life becomes a high-spirited comic nightmare. Punch and Judy meets the Book of Job in Professor Ralph's neglected masterpiece. 1h 30m Local Astoria, NY Clown/Mask Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque www.playlabnyc.org |
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Romeo and Toilet Kaimaku Pennant race Writer: Yu Murai Director: Yu Murai As a new type of performance uniting with Japanese animated cartoon culture and Japanese physical characteristics of short foot, the actors express Romeo and Juliet with using body in theatre. 1h 0m International Tokyo, Japan Performance Art www.kaimakup.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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The Most Mediocre Story Never Told! Writer: Jay Sefton Director: Debra De Liso Winner of the LA WEEKLY 'Best Solo Performance' 2008 award, this "MAGIC CARPET RIDE" comedy and deconstruction of solo shows, transports it's main character from the NCAA basketball championship to hanging on a cross in a diaper and ultimately the present moment. 1h 0m National Los Angeles, CA Solo Show Comedy www.mediocrestory.com |
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Time's Scream and Hurry Sewer Socialist Productions Writer: Paul Hoan Zeidler Director: Paul Hoan Zeidler Disparate people from L.A., Milwaukee and N.Y.C. confront penetrating violence, grapple with searing anger, and make choices that shock--even themselves. How do you recover? "... a command of language and a strength in storytelling that pulls us in." --BackStage 2h 0m National Los Angeles, CA Drama Comedy www.timesscream.com |
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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 |