Strange spoken inflections are both the selling point and undoing of this humorous though uneven piece.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Corporate life goes all dreamlike in this jumbled multimedia performance from Title: Point Productions that's part of Incubator Arts Project.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]An interactive stay at this simulated hotel offers a singular experience of ambiance and reflection.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]This well-designed puppet musical about mentally disabled children means well, but doesn't always pull the right strings.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Mourning becomes electronic in Isaac Oliver's hilarious digital overhaul of a classical tragedy, staged tidily by director David Ruttura.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Karinne Keithley's immersive but daunting archival experiment uses multimedia to explore an asylum's curious history but is far too impenetrable.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]This stylish stage version of Kurosawa's film, which adapted a Shakespearean tragedy, gains much gravitas in the multiple translations.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]How do you solve a problem like a stage adaptation of Fassbinder's 'The Marriage of Maria Braun?' With an elegant, darkly comic production.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]"Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart" centers on Caroline, an Australian girl who receives a wedding invitation via email from a friend who committed suicide three months earlier.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]John Kelly is performing in his inspired dance biography of painter Egon Schiele for the last time.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]The breakup of the former Yugoslavia is weighed against the breakup of a high school rock band in this award-winning play.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Diana Amsterdam's touching dark comedy about death is a gloomy but lively circus of manners that urges audiences not to fear the reaper.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]It's Aristophanes by way of "Avenue Q" in this entertainingly lewd but somewhat clunky puppet adaptation of the ancient Greek play.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]In Lake Simons' solo clown piece "Etiquette Unraveled," the artist conjures a plethora of wistful scenarios using only a few props.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]This American premiere of a dark and dense Finnish play feels botched, too shoddily stage for the script's impact to register fully.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Virginia Woolf is not afraid of anyone as she takes her audience and readership to task in this wearying but fascinating solo show from director Anne Bogart.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]A nimbly funny Fringe mash-up from Her Majesty's Secret Players, "Pulp Shakespeare" imagines how the Bard might have written the film "Pulp Fiction."
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:13AM[SHARE]Three amusingly inept revolutionaries kidnap the audience at the Living Theatre in Hist 123's hilarious Fringe Festival offering, "I >3 Revolution."
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:03AM[SHARE]Steve Bost's imaginative, vigorously intellectual "The Minervae," a free production in Astoria's Athens Square Park, has fun with deposed Greco-Roman gods.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:05AM[SHARE]Director-author-actor Seth Panitch's comedy "Hell: Paradise Found," at 59E59 Theaters, is perhaps too clever but has an undeniable huckster charm.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AM[SHARE]"Terminator Too: Judgment Play," a parody of James Cameron's 1991 blockbuster film, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," is an earnest and dumbly fun evening.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:43AM[SHARE]This third part of Gideon Production's "Honeycomb Trilogy" offers a rich and daring conclusion to the saga, anchored by affecting performances and far-reaching ideas.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:22AM[SHARE]"Escape," Susan Mosakowski's delightful comedy at La MaMa, is about the extremes people will endure before attempting a getaway from their absurd lives.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AM[SHARE]This supple memory play from the Riot Group presents a search for identity, discovery, and sexuality in college with appropriate alienation.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:44AM[SHARE]Flux Theatre Ensemble’s sophisticated production of August Schulenburg’s “DEINDE” relies too much upon heady science-fiction concepts.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:01AM[SHARE]Leah Bachar and Merideth Edwards’ ambitious multimedia play “Degeneration X,” at the Living Theatre, leans too heavily on lengthy video segments.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM[SHARE]In "The Shelter Presents: Art," four short plays attempt to offer arguments for the necessity of art, managing some insights amid the self-involved clichés.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:43AM[SHARE]The second installment of Mac Rogers’ “Honeycomb Trilogy,” from Gideon Productions, directed by Jordana Williams, is almost as thrilling as the first.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:13AM[SHARE]Buran Theatre Company’s “The House of Fitzcarraldo” at the Brick showcases winning performances, brisk musical numbers, and cheeky self-awareness.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:16AM[SHARE]Old Kent Road Theater's "Hamlet"-inspired piece of absurdist theater, by Eric Bland, at the Brick Theater is mostly self-absorbed.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM[SHARE]This stream-of-consciousness opera employs elegant slide projections and dissonant live music to coax a mother's life story out of her adult children.
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