tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62911489064308946032009-11-21T22:45:29.511-05:00The Fab Marquee is your new theater source, with listings, features & reviews. We have wonderful collaborators sharing their theater knowledge in the hopes to better guide our readers to the fabulous world of performing arts in New York City. But most of all, we are audience members just like you, who are here to share our diverse viewpoints. We hope to reach stages outside of the American Arena and bring you a mosaic of cultural tendencies and inspirations.Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189541097180201628noreply@blogger.comBlogger231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291148906430894603.post-63669238332697481952009-10-17T11:31:00.004-04:002009-10-17T11:35:11.769-04:00

The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee. It's been a while since I've seen a musical that starts with an overture; they always remind me of My Fair Lady or Oklahoma... the way one song melds into another and gives you a preview of what you're about to hear.  It's a little like starting a speech off with a joke: you get the audience in a good mood and pull them into your world slowly. 

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Magnet Theater presents the first annual New York Musical Improv Festival from November 6-7, 2009 at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC.  A detailed schedule and description of each night's line-up will be available at www.nymif.com.  Tickets are $10-$15 and will be available at www.brownpapertickets.com. "Musical Improv in all of its forms has become a

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While some shows have closed, others are still playing through the month of October. Below is  a compiled direct link to the shows we reviewed in this year's 1st Irish Theatre Festival. To learn more about these shows and the complete festival visit www.firstirish.org. The Pride of Parnell Street Tales from Rainwater Pond A Short Wake Cell the good thief The Selfish Giant Luck

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The Fab Marquee review by Diánna Martin. As the lights come up in Antoine O Flatharta's drama Blood Guilty, we are introduced to Pat (Vincent Dowling) and Dan (Christopher Joseph Jones), whose home life is the stuff reminiscent of the Collier Brothers and Grey Gardens. Time seems to have stopped in the cluttered house. Dan, who appears feeble-minded, but we later find is simply blind,

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee. Whatever Man, (book, music and lyrics written by Benjamin Strouse) is the story of hapless Charlie (Colin Hanlon) in love with got-it-all-together Anna (Kristin Maloney) who attends group counselling at her request so that they can take their relationship further.  Anna's a go-getter, Charlie's a couch potato but somehow they're in love.  At group

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Artistic Director, Carlos Armesto, launches a new theatre company, Theatre C, at The Barrow Street Theatre on November 2, 2009.  Theatre C’s purpose is to create vibrant theatre through the fusing of different forms of expression.  The company will meld puppetry and burlesque, video and dance, acrobatics and installations, hip hop, rock and salsa, and much more. "Theatre is evolving into a

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TCG’s fifth annual Free Night of Theater will have its NYC launch with a day-long celebration in Union Square on October 15 from 12:00PM until 6:00PM. Topping last year’s event in scope, scale and vision, this Union Square Free Night of Theater Celebration will have booths, art installations, and performances – both scheduled and spontaneous – as well as guest speakers including theatre artists

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee. If you're lucky, when you get to 59E59 Theaters to see Luck you'll get to sit at one of the VIP tables up front - they've got the best view, the best table clothes and the best interaction with the star, or "hostess". But that's only if you're lucky. Then again, as Megan Riordan (playwright/performer of Luck) will tell you, "Luck is what happens when

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee. Growing up can be rough; it's hard to leave behind all the wonderful, fanciful, joyous things than make up childhood and navigate the more somber realm of adulthood. But if you keep that little child inside you alive, and let them out every now and then to play, you're sure to reap the benefits of giving in to your more whimsical side. This is

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New York, NY: On Monday September 21, 2009, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off Broadway, and host Julie Halston, announced the 2009 recipients at the Fifth Annual IT Awards Ceremony at New World Stages. Those unable to attend joined the OOB theatre community's biggest night of the year online, and also followed theatre critic

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The Fab Marquee review by David Stallings. It is always a pleasure to see great scripts brought to life on the stage, especially when it is something so simple and yet so theatrical as a one-man show.  Of course the script, Conner McPherson’s, the good thief, now playing at The Player’s Loft as part of the First Irish Festival’s current line-up, is not new to NYC—but is a refreshing escape from

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Marrying Meg a new Scottish musical at The New York Musical Theatre Festival will premiere Tuesday, September 29th to a fresh new audience, but it looks like no creator. It so happens their author Mark Robertson (Book, Music & Lyrics) can't afford to fly out here to see his own show. He is self-producing, and all the money he has been able to raise has been dedicated to the production. He is the

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee. "I hear you sit right on the stage with the actors," one woman said to those of us gathered in the Gene Frankel lobby, waiting to take our seats for Paula Meehan's Cell. "You just sit right there in the prison cell like you're part of the show." A man, leaned over and said to me "Prison? I thought this show was going to be about phones". "Really?" I

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee. In The Daylight (by Tony Glazer, directed by John Gould Rubin) is an ironic title, or a conclusive one, or perhaps even a hopeful one.  Because the last thing you get with this play is one shred of hopeful daylight; this is as noir a plot as any written by Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler, right down to the rapid-fire dialogue and the "it was a

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The Fab Marquee review by Diánna Martin. Family dysfunction comes in all shapes and sizes, from all cultures. However, something can be definitely be said for the type of relationships that are cultivated in an Irish-American household that includes drinking and physical abuse. Siblings can either stick together to keep secrets or escape to other sides of the country - or the world - as they

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The Fab Marquee review by Peyton Wise.When Americans think of Ireland, amidst the clutter of misty green fields, vaguely Celtic druids and freedom fighters, one image seems eternal: an older man telling a wistful story in a lilting voice.  Tales From Rainwater Pond at 1st Irish is a radiant embodiment of that image.  1st Irish, a festival of Irish theatre currently playing twelve venues

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee.It isn't always the big tragedies that can destroy a marriage, sometimes it's the small heartbreaks that can fracture a man's spirit and set off a domino effect that leaves a marriage in shambles. Welcome to Parnell Street, Dublin, where jobs are of the odd variety, entertainment comes in the form of pints of ale, love starts young and tragedy even

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With some shows having their last performances today, we wanted to compile our FringeNYC coverage in one post with a direct link to each review. We only covered a handful of the festival, for reviews of all 201 shows, visit our friends at nytheatre.com. Happy last day of Fringing!CIRCUITSDON'T STEP ON THE CRACKSPOPULATION: 8FAB PICK: THE K OF D: AN URBAN LEGENDSADIE, SADIEFAB PICK: PIE FACE! THE

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The Fab Marquee review by Antonio Minino.Have you ever walked passed the beautiful Alvin Ailey building on 55th Street and seen the dancers through the clear windows pirouetting in front of your very eyes? If you've ever wanted to sit in a dance class of that caliber, and see how the teachers guide their students, you need to change your brunch plans and head down to the Robert Moss Theatre for

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee.Don't Step on the Cracks starring, written and created by the Five Flights Theater Company (Jake Bartush, Laurel Casillo, Colby Cecca, Adam Delia, Nick Hepsoe, Carlyn Kautz, Will Lacker, Sara Lukasiewicz, and Claire McGinley) and directed by Eryck Tait was not written for me, or anyone over the age of 25 for the simple fact that expecting a group of

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee.There are a lot of things that will drive people to despair in this world; loss of love... loss of hope... loss of innocence. Having someone to confide in during these bleak times, or even better - having a community (a church group, a support group, even a softball team) can provide a balm to your wounds as you navigate through your sorrow. But what if

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee.The K of D, an urban legend (written by Laura Schellhardt) starts off the way it should, with the lines "I got one! I got one!"  Because really, haven't we all "got one"?  An urban legend of some sort that we swear is true?  Even I have one, but of course it comes by way of my mother, who heard it from her friend, who said it happened to her husband,

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee.Two people can meet anywhere: in line waiting for the (something-or-other) tickets to go on sale, on-line in a (fans-of-some-obscure-star) chat room, at work, on vacation, in an AA meeting (but don't tell), hitchhiking to Canada, in a bar, outside a bar, on the way to a bar, stumbling home from a bar. Sadie (Lilly Tobin) and Jon (EJ Marotta) just

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee."At least it was a fruit pie" said Anita Bryant right after she was smacked in the face with a pie on national TV during a 1977 press conference being broadcast live from Des Moines, Iowa. Why was she pied in the face? Why did she quip about fruit? And more importantly: Who the hell is Anita Bryant?©Dixie Lee PhotographyWell, sadly, I'm old enough to

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