NY Fringe Festival

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.

NY Review: 'Love Death Brains: A Pete Rydberg Musical Meme'

An experiment to see if humans and zombies can coexist is at the center of "Love Death Brains," a promising but flawed tuner in the Fringe Festival.

NY Review: 'Quest for the West: Adventures on the Oregon Trail!'

Based on the Oregon Trail computer game, "Quest for the West" is a Fringe musical that plays for nostalgic laughs, with promising hints of a deeper story.

NY Review: 'Right on Target'

There's a lot of plot but little hilarity in Gary Morgenstein's "Right on Target," a Fringe political comedy about a mixed-race couple in Washington, D.C.

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.

NY Review: 'After the Circuit'

Josh Billig's "After the Circuit," a Fringe Festival show, is overloaded with backstory as it depicts a vaudevillian's struggles during the Depression.

NY Review: 'Have I Got a Girl for You'

Gay actor-author Josh Mesnik's autobiographical Fringe comedy "Have I Got a Girl for You" details his adventures working for a Florida prostitution ring.

NY Review: 'Danny Visconti Is Hill-bent: My Night With Hillary Clinton'

"Danny Visconti Is Hill-bent: My Night With Hillary Clinton," a musical standup act in the Fringe Festival, is too self-consciously outrageous to succeed.

NY Review: 'Tail! Spin!'

Mario Correa's Fringe concoction "Tail! Spin!" arranges the comments of Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Mark Sanford, and Anthony Weiner for big if cynical laughs.