"Secret Honor, The Last Testament of Richard M. Nixon" is a torrential tirade spewed by a scotch-soaked Richard M. Nixon, as he prepares to resign the presidency to avoid impeachment from his cover-up of the Watergate break-in.
"Comic-Con The Musical" celebrates that Mecca of Nerd-dom, The San Diego Comic-Con International aka Comic-Con. Four magical days every summer filled with celebrity panels, Sci-Fi seminars, previews of wannabe blockbusters, video game tryouts, cos-play and small herds of pot-bellied Spidermans.
Director/writer/set designer Donovan Glover won the 1991 UCLA Best-New-Play-of-the-Year Award for this work and at times "Just Like Life" certainly feels like the work of a neophyte – absurdist themes are the “training wheels” of choice for all greenhorn bards.
In "The Girl who Jumped off the Hollywood Sign" written and performed by Joanne Hartstone, under the direction of Vince Fusco, the audience joins a Peg Entwistle wannabe as she teeters precariously perched on the top of the Hollywood sign looking down at her impermanence
I wanted "Zombie Clown Trump" (Surprise! It's a musical), so badly, to be great. But if wishes were horses….
"Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino's" by writer/director Richard Lucas approaches being the ultimate Hollywood Fringe Festival offering.
The personalities with whom playwright, Steven Vlasak populates “Nights at the Algonquin Round Table” are some the most acerbic wits, who carved up their targets with tongues sharpened daily on alcohol-soaked whetstones.
"My Janis," at The New Collective during Fringe 2017, is not actually a play. It is a moment selected from the life of rock legend Janis Joplin and reimagined for an audience.
"The Second Coming of Klaus Kinski" writer, performer Andrew Perez presents Kinski and all his demons with such unnerving commitment that the stench of sulfur burns the eyes of the audience. It is not so much a portrayal by an actor as the actor’s possession
"Chimera Bella," with cinematography by James Delhauer, is described as “an acrobatic journey”; I saw little proof of either.
