NY Review: 'Bang! The Curse of John Wilkes Booth
A dandy one-man Fringe show written and performed by Scott Baker, "Bang! The Curse of John Wilkes Booth" explores the myth that Booth was never captured.
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“City of Shadows” is a unique and compelling song cycle from the Fringe that makes use of haunting forensic photographs to paint an impression of life’s fragility and preciousness.
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“Behind the Badge,” written and performed by Marrick Smith and Lachlan McKinney, is a vigorous two-man Fringe work about a cop and his son that’s based on true events.
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NY Review: 'Saharava: A Ritualized Dance-Opera'
Spellbinding Fringe entry "Saharava" combines inventive choreography and Eastern-flavored music to trace the birth, life, and rebirth of a young Everywoman.
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Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame
“Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame,” Onalea Gilbertson’s Fringe Festival song cycle about her feisty grandmother, lacks craft but is an affecting love letter.
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Matthew Ethan Davis’ Fringe show “Ticket 2 Eternity,” a dreamscape about the joys of servitude, is a lively peek into a would-be waiter’s subconscious but lacks coherency.
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In Jason Atkinson’s dull Fringe comedy “A Short Trip,” complex religious questions underlie superficial concerns in a story about whether a spouse should take a Roman vacation.
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"Bewitched" heads to the borscht belt in this hokey Fringe tuner from D'Jamin Bartlett and Mark Bornfield about a witch and a nebbishy songwriter.
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NY Review: 'The Art of Painting'
Written and performed by Mark Chrisler, "The Art of Painting," a Fringe Festival show, is a masterful piece of heady writing about painter Jan Vermeer.
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“Dogs,” at the Fringe, is a movement-oriented work about a gay Israeli theater director trying to make an all-male musical out of “Romeo and Juliet” with Arab and Jewish actors.
