tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62911489064308946032009-07-08T23:36:57.475-04:00The 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.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291148906430894603.post-63336092529059428152009-07-08T22:32:00.004-04:002009-07-08T22:57:37.680-04:00

The Fab Marquee reviews by Dianna Martin.Glory Bowen and Frank Calo's Planet Connections Theatre Festival was a whirlwind of theatrical entertainment that, as mentioned in a previous review, I applaud for going above and beyond attempts at not only presenting solid Off-Off Broadway Theatre, but also combining creativity with philanthropy and raising awareness. It was my delight, then, to find

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If you are producing a show this June, July or August the following promo codes can be used to get deep discounts from United Stages playbill: Code 0149 for $100 off regular playbills. Code 0300 for a 25% off discount on festival inserts (For MITF and FringeNYC and whatnot).  You need to claim the discount when you register your show.  Call 718.360.2958 for more information or visit

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The Fab Marquee Out-Broadway by Cody Daigle.When you're living in a part of the country that's isolated from a theatre center (which, to be fair, is most of the country), The Tony Awards telecast serves as one of the few tangible connections to the world of Real Theatre – the kind that doesn't involve your dermatologist taking a desperate stab at plumbing the depths of Willy Loman.It's a lifeline

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The Fab Marquee review Dianna Martin.It can be a very ambitious project to produce, write, and star in a play, especially when said play has a lot to say...or at least a lot that it is trying to say. Unfortunately, This Isn't Paradise, by Richard Hymes Esposito, directed by Robert Haufrecht, lives up to it's name and then some. It is a play with problems from the beginning, and painfully what

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The Fab Marquee review by Dianna Martin.Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell, starring John Kelly, is one of the best concerts/performance art shows I have been to in years. Produced by TWEED TheaterWorks in association with Robbi Kerns, I was captivated throughout the entire show. John Kellyphoto credit: Austin YoungI tried explaining the show to a friend, who tossed it off as "Oh,

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee.Bill is a bad, bad man.Thankfully, at the onset of The Roses on the Rocks (written by Ellen Boscov and Directed by Richard Caliban) he's already dead (Bill's ghost played by Scott Sowers). Unfortunately, that state of being doesn't keep him from reuniting with Blossom (Laura Montes) almost before his grave has settled; in fact he goes to visit his teen

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The Fab Marquee review by Dianna Martin. The Planet Connections Festivity has brought together a long list of shows all in the name of the greater good; each show highlighting a particular cause or organization that helps those in need or our environment. Hats off to this endeavor to combine the world of Off-Off Broadway Theatre and the creative minds behind it with just causes to benefit the

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The Fab Marquee News Desk.New York performing troupe The Neo-Futurists have a special Gay Pride-Edition of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind. In 30 Gay Plays in 60 Straight Minutes, each short play is written by a performer, honed by the ensemble, and randomly collaged with twenty-nine other plays through high energy audience participation.Only two performances: Friday, June 26 and Saturday,

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The Fab Marquee review by David Stallings.Planet Connections Festivity still continues downtown. And now is the best time to see theater, with part of your proceeds guaranteed to be donated to charity. Out of the hundreds of Off-Off Broadway productions in the past few years—only a handful of directors come to mind who have as much vision, voice, and vitality as Jeremy Bloom. His direction of

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The Fab Marquee News Desk.WatersEdge Productions, a new independent theatre company, presents its debut production in Toronto: the Canadian premiere of BARE, the rock musical that has garnered a worldwide fan base since its award-winning Los Angeles staging, and its subsequent sold-out five-week Off-Broadway run. With music by Damon Intrabartolo and lyrics by Jon Hartmere, BARE opens July 17

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UPDATE: The Fab Marquee will be tweeting live from the Launch Party!The Fab Marquee News Desk.The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) presents their Tenth Anniversary Season Launch Party on Sunday, June 28th, 2009 at 7PM (doors open at 6PM) at the Bleecker Street Theatre, 45 Bleecker Street, NYC. Tickets are $20 and are available now at www.midtownfestival.org or by phone at 866-811-

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The Fab Marque News Desk.Tickets are on sale for the 2009 edition of BC/EFA's hotly anticipated summer event: Broadway Bares 19. Created in 1992 by Tony Award® winning director / choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray and Peep Show in Las Vegas), the event features the hottest male and female dancers on Broadway and has become one of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS' signature

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The Fab Marquee News Desk.The VI Santo Domingo International Theatre Festival kicks off tomorrow June 17th through the 24th, 2009. Participating are theatre companies from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Canada, Ecuador, Spain, Guatemala, Venezuela and Dominican Republic, adding to a total of 61 theatrical productions.Canada: HeavenAside from the shows, the festival’s line-up includes

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The Fab Marquee News Desk.Since its beginnings in 1986 (formerly known as Manhattan Class Company), MCC Theater has scaled to be one of New York City's top Off-Broadway companies. You might have heard their name being uttered more than usual due to their production of the excellent (and prematurely closed) reasons to be pretty, nominated for three Tony Awards. They have recently announced their

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The Fab Marquee review by David Stallings.There is a new festival gracing New York City, The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, from June 11th through the 28th at 440 Studios. The festival has two main objectives: to nurture new works by talented directors, playwrights, and theatre professionals, and to nurture our environment and community. Every one of the shows featured in this festival is

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The Fab Marquee News Desk.The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, is celebrating their fifth year with a groundbreaking announcement: the creation of a new Innovative Theatre Award to honor outstanding Stage Management. The IT Awards will be the premiere ceremony to showcase the people who are the “glue that holds the whole show

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We seem to have encountered a small glitch that has caused the loss of most of the photos on the site. We are working on re-posting all the photos in our reviews.Thank you so much for your patience, aside from photos, the reviews are intact.

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The Neighborbee review by Karen Tortora-Lee.Bigger than I starts off as a crazy jumble of words, actions and choreographed moves … a blast to the senses, almost like a (oh, I get it now!) Human Internet, speeding toward you at 100 miles an hour. The entire cast is on stage babbling, singing, almost Monty Python like, but not. However, soon enough they quiet down and one scene runs seamlessly

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The Fab Marquee review by Peyton Wise.Dr. C (Or How I Learned to Act in Eight Steps) is a revelation for theatre professionals. Structured as an examination in eight pieces, it explores theatre theory through the words of Aristotle, Adolphe Appia, Constantin Stanislavski, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Anne Bogart. If none of these names is familiar, this is

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The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee.Living in New York you can't help but run across a few green-card marriages in your life; the first time I ever met a couple who were trying to pull one over on the government they were happily living together as roommates and dating whom ever they chose with each other's blessing. It was a fine arrangement for both of them; he got to stay in the

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The Fab Marquee review by Dianna Martin.Lillith. The Garden of Eden combined with an amazing soundtrack that played in my head for hours afterwards. One of the most delightful drag queens I've seen in years. Sexuality. Fall from grace. Beauty in gorgeous dance choreography. A mesmerizing set and lighting design. A desire imparted upon me to brush up on my theological history to the point that I

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