The New York International Fringe Festival 2010

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[Editor's Note: This is the eighth in a series of roundups on the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.]


There's an undeniable electricity that flows through playwright James Asmus' dialogue from the first scene of Hearts Full of Blood, at HERE Arts Center, where we're introduced to a happily married couple, Jacob (Gary Tiedemann) and Alison (Sarah Gitenstein) and their two single friends, Kirk (Evan Linder) and Suellen (Mary Hollis Inboden).

The four drink wine and share stories -- including the one about how Kirk left Alison at a party years back, where she ended up meeting Jacob. Kirk's a typical white-collar womanizer who can't go more than a couple sentences without mentionin[...]

[Editor's Note: This is the seventh in a series of roundups on the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.]


If you're in the mood for a sprightly comedy about sexual harassment and serial murder -- and who isn't? -- check out the TOSOS revival of The Secretaries, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The 1994 cult classic by the writer/performer collective The Five Lesbian Brothers is a wild and dangerous concoction of lesbian pulp fiction, campy non sequiturs, and misogynist stereotypes exploded from within. The current production, directed by Mark Finley, is also one of the sexier shows of the summer.

Elizabeth Whitney provides an energetic spin on the proverbial new kid on the block as h[...]

[Editor's Note: This is the sixth in a series of roundups on the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.]

Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical, at La MaMa E.T.C.'s Ellen Stewart Theatre, doesn't just parody the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park, based on Michael Crichton's novel about a dinosaur theme park gone wild; it actually succeeds in telling the story from the dinosaurs' point-of-view.

In writers Emma Barash, Bryce Norbitz, Steve Wargo, and Marshall Pailet's clever reimagining, the dinos (who, you may remember, are all engineered to be female to prevent "unauthorized" reproduction) live in a peaceful, faith-based community that worships the lab workers who created them. However,[...]

[Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of roundups on the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.]


There's no denying that Stan Richardson's Veritas, at HERE Arts Center, has impact. The premise alone makes an audience sit up and take notice. The dramatist bases his charged but flawed work on the very real (though only brought-to-light in 2002) story of a hunt for homosexuals carried out in 1920 at Harvard, where the university motto is "Veritas" -- "truth."

After undergraduate Cyril Wilcox takes his own life, his brother Lester (Doug Kreeger) discovers two letters from classmates with clear references to the homosexual activities in which Cyril's circle of friends engaged.[...]