“Peninsula” at the New York International Fringe Festival at the Robert Moss Theater (Closed August 22, 2013)

August 19, 2013 | LGBTQ+, NY International Fringe | Tags: ,

It is ironic that by refusing to go to New York City, his last opportunity to escape into freedom, protagonist Tiago (Josue Gutierrez Guerra) is murdered then pushed off a thirty-nine foot sail boat wrapped in sailcloth. He begins his descent into death’s memory vault and launches into his role as unreliable narrator extraordinaire. Tiago’s remarkable and mind-splitting postmortem narrative…

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“Gertrude Stein SAINTS!” at the New York International Fringe Festival at the Ellen Stewart Theatre – La MaMa (Closed Wednesday August 14, 2013)

August 14, 2013 | dance nation, NY International Fringe | Tags:

[The Prelude: Joseph and I believe that the thing we call theatre – from idea to performance to review and beyond – is a collaborative process. No one entity in that process is more important than another. Writers, directors, casts, creative teams, critics, audiences are all accountable to preserve the core of the dramatic process and are accountable to one…

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“Luke Nicholas” at the New York International Fringe Festival at Teatro Circulo (Closed Saturday August 17, 2013)

August 14, 2013 | dance nation, LGBTQ+, NY International Fringe, the prom | Tags: ,

“Luke Nicholas” is the quintessential example of what should be found at the ongoing NY International Fringe Festival. It is good theater, refreshing, new, innovative and well written, always keeping the audience engaged with surprising twists and turns. It examines the parameters of an open gay relationship testing boundaries only to realize what is required to survive the sometimes ugly,…

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“Bully” at the New York International Fringe Festival at the Steve and Marie Sgouros Theatre (Closed August 21, 2013)

August 13, 2013 | NY International Fringe | Tags:

After a full fifteen-minute intense visceral, sweaty, and well-rounded pre-curtain warm-up, Lee J. Kaplan launches into his equally intense visceral, sweaty, and well-rounded boxing match with all things bullying. Mr. Kaplan makes it clear that if one is to beat the bully at his/her own game, one needs to be in excellent shape or know someone in better shape to…

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“Adam & Steve and the Empty Sea” at the New York International Fringe Festival at CSV Kabayitos (Closed Thursday August 15, 2013)

August 12, 2013 | LGBTQ+, NY International Fringe | Tags: ,

Friends from childhood, Adam (Topher Rasmussen) and Steve (Logan Tarantino) each need validation from the other as they move forward from graduation and decide where to spend their college years together. Adam needs to know his friend affirms his strong commitment to Mormon values and, after coming out to Adam, Steve needs to know his friend truly understands his sexual…

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“cal and grey” at the New York International Fringe Festival at CSV Kabayitos (Closed Saturday August 24, 2013)

August 12, 2013 | asi wind, LGBTQ+, NY International Fringe, sense and | Tags: ,

Cal and Grey (“with an ‘e’”) are two teenage boys considered to be expendable. They were warehoused in their post-infancy by the revolutionary regime whose takeover eliminated “all men and women” and placed all children in orphanages until they were twenty-one. With many other institutionalized children, Cal and Grey survive by adhering to a diet of strict obedience to a…

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“Harbor” at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters (Closed September 8, 2013)

August 6, 2013 | currently at. 59e59, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway | Tags: , ,

“Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that…

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“Love, Genius and A Walk” at the Midtown International Theatre Festival at the June Havoc Theatre (Closed Sunday August 4, 2013)

August 5, 2013 | frankie, june havoc theatre, Midtown International Theatre | Tags:

“I often think: they have only just gone out,/and now they will be coming back home./The day is fine, don’t be dismayed,/They have just gone for a long walk.” Gustav Mahler, “Songs on the Death of Children” Long walks are important not only for those on foot but also for those left behind waiting for the return of (most often)…

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“Crossing Swords” at the New York Musical Theatre Festival at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre (Closed July 28, 2013)

August 2, 2013 | crossing swords musical, igor goldin, Midtown International Theatre | Tags:

“Crossing Swords” is an important new musical with multilayered and interweaving plot structures driven by a matrix of well-developed, dynamic characters who share a repository of complicated plots that the audience can readily identify with and understand. Joe Slabe has created an endearing book musical with transcendent lyrics and music and powerful and redemptive themes spun by an unexpected love…

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