387 stories from Usher Nonsense
"" a pair of solo shows, yoked together by their comparable themes -- Vicki Dello Joio's poetic, stylized study of her fraught relationship with her dying father and Merry Ross's comedic, co…
SOUL DOCTOR, the Journey of Shlomo Carlebach, the Rockstar Rabbi, is a taste of MEMPHIS meets HAIR meets FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, and toss in a little GODSPELL on the side. The music, a highlig…
Chris Rock the comedian said: "...crackhead go with crackhead", illustrating comfort with one's own. "They Call Me Q!" is a one woman show, written and performed by Q…
"Brenda" by Cory Finley and directed by Ashley Rodbro is the "little sleeper that could", stretching but never over-reaching its Fringe incarnation. This show is a gem se…
Accidental Hamlet follows two characters: John (played by Danny Askenasi) and Frederick (played by Bob Homeyer) as they attempt, in one of the most silly ways I have ever seen, to paint a tw…
This show is related to the play of the same name in the way that Shingles is related to Measles. You don't get the latter without the former. We start off with a nicely turned out speech …
This is a play about history, science, philosophy, obscurity, celebrity, but mostly about change, the kind of revolutionary change that defined the modern world for better and worse, and how…
Rubble is pure delight, a writer's sleight of hand in which the rapid-fire delivery of one-liners and repartee actually builds into a play " a funny, entertaining and witty one at that. D…
On a bright summer Sunday at noon, we enter the dark lobby of The Players Theatre for a much-anticipated offering in the Seventeenth Annual New York International Fringe Festival. Inside, tw…
2 & 2, self titled "a serio-comedy" leads me to believe that I would have had a chance to laugh, and coming out of the theatre at the end of the show, I felt cheated. The story opens wit…
Gather around, its story time! EPICish by Eve A. Butler is a gem! A one woman show, Butler takes on the roles of Bea, Masha and Odessa. The rough around the edges Bea is the furthest from a …
I have two simple requirements when I go to the theater. One that I can hear it, and two that I can see it. You might think this is easy to come by but you'd be wrong. Word…
Bradley Cole is a modern story swimming in a pool of secrets, lies, facades and social media"all mixed into a good time at the theater. In this production, the awkward, self-proclaimed unint…
"You complete me," is a sentence JM Barrie and Captain Scott never utter in the short play, The Mythmakers, and I am sure also never uttered in their real lives. But it is certainly how they…
Anjan Biswas is a young stand-up comic. He is cute, charming and very at ease with the audience. He looks directly into your eyes, even drinks from one woman's wine glass and never seems emb…
This is a brave attempt to do the near impossible " and it succeeds in what audiences appreciate most " humor. But Vonnegut's humor is of the darkest variety, and getting across that darkn…
In what must be New York's tiniest theatre, there is a jewel of a show being born. Ghetto Babylon is an example of what theatre is at the core: story telling that engages the listener. You…
It's Miles' wedding day but Miles (Scott Decker) hates his fiancée and there is a dead hooker on his couch"interest takes flame right when the lights go up and the audience sees feet dangli…
Horse Play The Musical is a great idea that needs more work, resulting in a story that moves with the pleasant but leisurely clip-ity-clop of the horse-drawn carriages around which this stor…
Touch is a story which surrounds Kyle Kalke (Jonathan Berenson) an astronomer who loses the love of his life in a tragedy and turns to sex with a prostitute to feel how he felt again when hi…
I went with Sarah Tuft and Jervelle Frederick to see the 9 previews brought out for the press to taste. We each took 3 to write about so as not to be greedy or go mad with so many flavors an…
Fringe Preview- Save the Date, The Rufus Equation and Breaking Kayfabe.Can you feel it? The Fringe Festival is upon us and if the lineup is anything like the preview scenes of the nine shows…
Since its inception 17 years ago, the New York International Fringe Festival " or FringeNYC " has always done more with less. And so it was with FringeNYC's press conference, which doubled a…
This is a review of a unique experience that's there for your taking. It costs nothing, yet it is of great value as a Shakespearean character might say if he found it, as I did, in a parkin…
It is difficult to know where to begin with this review. This entire selection of plays is so poorly written, badly acted, and directed without care that I am nearly speechless. I take tha…
