7,093 stories by "Sandi Durell"
Winners of the 2015 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards were announced by festival Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy during a brief ceremony at Drom in New York. As sele…
By:Â Myra Chanin According to his wiseass bio, Ricky Ritzel was last seen on Broadway hailing a cab. Actually Ricky is a formidable Cabaret stalwart who spends most...…
by: JK Clarke Alternate or avant-garde manipulations of Shakespeare are nothing new. They have, in fact, contributed mightily to the canon of notable productions since World Wa…
By: Sandi Durell It's still hot, hot, hot but not for long. Very soon the cabarets and...
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Robin Westle has more than proved her mettle in spearheading Helpusadopt.org, a national non-profit 501(c)(3) financial assistance grant program providing qualified couples and…
Review by Michael Bracken "Which is worse? A black kid whose mom gets arrested, so he gets in with the wrong crowd, and is really...
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Review by Sonia Roberts Set at a prestigious university in New York City, Lisa Lewis's Schooled takes us into the world of competitive undergraduate screenwriters…
By: Sandi Durell The 1994 genocide that occurred in Rwanda of the slaughter of thousands of Tutsis by Hutus stings with...
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Theater Pizzazz’ own Marcina Zaccaria, a playwright, will unveil Artemisia, a play that pits Niccolo Machiavelli against Artemisia Gentleschi, in a reading featuring Jeff…
by: Paulanne Simmons On March 3, 1943, the air-raid Civil Defense Siren sounded in London at 8:17 pm, and people...
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Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. As part of the New York International Fringe Festival an extraordinary group of talented people are presenting "Divine Intervention," written b…
By: Brian Scott Lipton At age 84, A.R. Gurney is writing like he's running out of time. That seems as good an explanation as any for "Love...
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Review by: Bre Northrup This year’s 19th annual New York International Fringe Festival showcased a new musical written and performed by undergraduates at Yale Univ…
Life Underwater By Marcina Zaccaria Performance art thrives at Jaron Hollander and Slater Penney's The Submarine Show at the NY International Fringe Festival. At …
Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. "The Engaygement," a new autobiographical music with music, lyrics, and book by David Auxier-L…
by: Sandi Durell When I told a friend I was going to 54 Below to hear songs that Meryl Streep has sung, they gave me...
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By Barbara & Scott Siegel Hot and Cold Running Critics There are essentially two kinds of critics operating in our theater.…
by: Susan Hasho You can take the girl out of Germany, but it's hard for the girl…to get the German past out of herself. After learning what...
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Review by Sonia Roberts New Haven-based Split Knuckle Theatre delivers with an energetic and extremely funny interprepation of the much-discussed (at least…
By Beatrice Williams-Rude The Screenwriter Dies of His Own Free Will, a "metafictional" comedy on the art of the deal, is a polished gem glittering on East Fourth...
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Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. As part of UNFringed Festival at the Secret Theatre of Long Island City, Queens actor/writer Andrew Martin is performing a one man autobiographical...…
A pleasant musical theater work about a romantically insecure women and her poor life choices. By Joel Benjamin With nearly 200 events squeezed into two weeks,...…
By Myra Chanin Rita Rudner was the first entertainer I envied. Not because she was funny. I was funny too. But she was funny and beautiful and innocent...
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By: Sandi Durell Warning! Philip Ridley's "Mercury Fur" is the story of a dystopian society; youth gone amuck when law and order break down and..…
by: Sandi Durell The cast and creatives were available at a press junket for photos in preparation for the upcoming production of “Laugh It Up, Stare It Down…
