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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.
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.
Josh Billig's "After the Circuit," a Fringe Festival show, is overloaded with backstory as it depicts a vaudevillian's struggles during the Depression.
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.
"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.
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.
Jeff Seabaugh's inspiring one-man play "We Crazy, Right?," a Fringe Festival entry, tells how he and his husband created a family through adoption.
Fringe show "Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness!" delivers an hour of insightful comedy before becoming a tired academic debate about theater.
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" gets a crackling airing in this Fringe show as two terrific actors take on all the characters in a fast-moving hour.
Three amusingly inept revolutionaries kidnap the audience at the Living Theatre in Hist 123's hilarious Fringe Festival offering, "I >3 Revolution."
Spellbinding Fringe entry "Saharava" combines inventive choreography and Eastern-flavored music to trace the birth, life, and rebirth of a young everywoman.
Jessica Liadsky's "Canon in D Minor," a Fringe entry, overflows with emotion, with three actors playing one grieving heroine, but is nevertheless affecting.
The title of this Fringe show is "An Evening With Kirk Douglas," but the character serves as little more than a plot point for some very uneven comedy.
The Mobile Shakespeare Unit's 90-minute condensation of Shakespeare's "Richard III," at the Public Theater, has Ron Cephas Jones as the murdering monarch.
Fringe show "Night of the Auk" is a campy revival of Arch Obler's 1956 drama about mankind's first trip to the moon, originally directed by Sidney Lumet.
Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood's "5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche" is light and fluffy Fringe fare that finds a fresh voice with relevant issues.
Thanks to Adrienne Arsht and the Agnes Varis Trust, TACT received grants to offset actors' salaries and provide reduced ticket prices.
Quite a few FringeNYC graduates have gone on to achieve further success, both on the New York stage and around the country.
Brit helmers Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel have enthrallingly re-imagined Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Into the Woods" for Shakespeare in the Park.
Broadway's Patrick Page and Darron L. West are among the recipients of the annual awards, which honor theater, dance, choreography, and film.
"Bullet for Adolf," a two-and-a-half-hour stoner-slacker-dude screwball comedy from first-time playwrights Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, is painful.
Short plays by Paul Rudnick and Neil LaBute and a brief tuner by Sean Hartley and Sam Davis comprise the mostly beguiling "Summer Shorts 2012: Series B."
Enjoy New York's "best staycation" Aug. 10-26 via the nearly 200 shows of the New York International Fringe Festival.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will host a rare presentation of footage from Nöel Coward's 1929 operetta "Bitter Sweet."
Such additional programs as FringeCLUB, FringeJR, and FringeHIGH create a greater sense of community at FringeNYC.
