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.
"Nothing Bad – A Werewolf Rock Musical" has spun the 1987 vampire film, "The Lost Boys" by way of the 1971 musical hit "Grease," and for the first ten minutes seems to be making a success of it with composer and lyricist Daniel Sugimoto who
"An Evening With John Wilkes Booth" by Clinton Case and Lloyd J. Schwartz (who also directs), presents a solid and edifying portrait of the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
"Herpes: A Love Story," a show about the scourge of the sexual revolution, provides creator/performer Cherise Pascual with the opportunity of blitzing the audience like a miniature, methed—out Panzer tank…
"Stringmates" by Amanda Noriko Newman takes its core concept from the Asian legend of the “Red String of Fate,” the belief that the gods bind two individuals who are destined to be together with an unbreakable red string that connects them no matter what distance
Well, I suspected I was going to like "Finally, Some Privacy" Aimee Levey’s one woman show, for Fringe 2017, when I heard the singing of Jack Lukeman being used as pre-show music.
Director, Christopher Johnson is too clever by half, which is clearly demonstrated in his current Fringe offering: a raucous, genderbending, madcap rendering of Christopher Marlowe’s, "The Faggot King or The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second."
