387 stories from Usher Nonsense
Do me a favor and cancel you plans for today. Instead, hoof it over to the Delacorte NOW and get inline for tickets to this show. It closes tonight. I was there last night, and on the way…
Let me begin by acknowledging a bias. I am a realitarian. Theater of the Absurd is not a road I easily traverse. So, this play which takes place in a fantasy called hell often le…
The Sacred Elephant has found its way to the Big Apple from South Africa and trumpets an experience of varied emotions while paying homage to the majestic creature known as the elephant. A s…
Okay, I admit it. Right up until the start of the play I was checking my cell phone for the score of the game. Yankees-Red Sox in a year when New York needs every win it can get to stay in…
As we rapidly approach the year 2014 there really isn't any household dynamic that has gone unheard of. So what do you get when you mix a dry humored painfully honest woman, an equally dry h…
As a fan of Irish writers Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson and Colum McCann, I've always fancied myself a Celtophile. But thanks to Origin's 1st Irish's artistic director George C. Heslin, I…
Reach by Ryan Sprague, struck me as a piece designed to magnify the power of grief and failure and the devastating effects they can have on a person's life, however, I could not relate to th…
This is a theatre plus dance and music piece that chronicles the life of the composer Tchaikovsky - in long hand. "Tchaikovsky" is a heartfelt effort from a team of artists taking on the lif…
I went to see "Mercedes Benz Awkwardly" because I thought the title was clever. Still, I worried the title might have set too high a bar for the show. No worries! "Mercedes Benz …
 "SOUNDWAVES: The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan" covers a lot of historical territory. Born into a spiritual and musical family, Noor Inayat Khan was known as the "spy who could not lie".…
It's been a week whiffy with estrogen at the New York International Fringe Festival. "First Hand Woman," "The A-is-for-Abortion Play," "Mercedes Benz Awkwardly," and, at Venue 3, well of…
Are you a secret tabloid reader? Catch glimpses of the latest gossip on the supermarket line? Buy "national enquirer" when noone is looking? Have no fear, it's safe to come…
This is a well-seasoned two-character performance piece about too many things. The piece centers around Suzi, played by Susan McCully, her physical issues, her embarrassment of riches in …
The NY International Fringe Festival is nothing if not ambitious - 185 shows in 17 days - playing to a demanding New York audience in August? Are you crazy?  That said, watching thea…
"I (Honestly) Love You" is a comedy about love and the terrors of both honesty and lying in a relationship, written by Damon Lockwood (who is also one of the actors). The four performers are…
"Quake A Love Story" takes place in a storage closet. A formerly married couple has to face what most of us would rather avoid even under the best of circumstances, going through their stuff…
Sanitation or Off the Grid is daring, fresh, informative and entertaining. Three NYC sanitation workers have saved up their sick days to go on vacation, after dealing with hurricane Sandy th…
"Nova Scotia.", he tries to scream, while being choked. "There is no safe word.", the sadist replies, gloating. When a worker's partners in the sadistic dance called work are huge conglomera…
When you walk into the theatre, you're handed a pencil and paper along with your program and told that "We will begin with 5 minute poses." The artist's model, Beth, played by Harmony Stempe…
Playwright Sarah Michelle Brown borrows Elisabeth Kubler-Rossʼs model of the five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - to make a play. Each "stage" st…
Occupy Olympus is theatrical greatness"educational and whimsical. The play is a revamped contemporary piece of the comedy Plutus by Greek playwright Aristophanes. Plutus, god of wealth (Geo…
First AND Blind is the deal here. Date that is. The show opens with a terrific quartet of talent Sara Chase, Kristoffer Cusick, Kate Loprest and Bryce Ryness all doing their best to deliv…
Few Fringe shows can carry a cast of eight, costumes of epic proportions, puppets, and large choreography; but in the hour and half of "Aisle 6" all is found, making this show quite the visu…
WHY YOU BEASTING? By David Don Miller has more twists and turns than most amusement park rides, and is just as thrilling. Shane Ziegler, leading this astounding cast as Mr. Rudy Donovan, na…
When studying global warming and the melting of the glaciers in Alaska, scientists forgot one factor and her name is Valerie Hager"she is on fire! The writer and star of the autobiographical…
