Fresh Fruit Festival

Off-Broadway Review: “12th Nighted” and “Fire on Babyon” at Fresh Fruit Festival 2016 at the Wild Project

July 18, 2016 | blaine mizer new york, carousel, little gem play review, Off-Broadway, the play - little gem, yen at mcc theater > | Tags: ,

Hands down, Patrick Thomas McCarthy has written a slam-dunk retelling of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” aptly entitled “12th Nighted” which enjoyed its final performance at Fresh Fruit Festival 2016 on Sunday July 17, 2016 at the Wild Project. There are familiar characters: Cesario and Viola (Alexandra Bonesho); Olivia (Anne Pasquale); Maria (Alyssa Abraham); Melvolio (Keith Herron); and Toby (David Palmer Brown)….

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“Dwight” at the Fresh Fruit Festival at the Wild Project (Closed July 21, 2013)

July 22, 2013 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway > | Tags: , ,

“Dwight” is an ill-conceived new play about a group of unlikable LGBT friends (well, no one really knows Cash’s precise sexual status) who hang out in Cash’s BIN, recycle, create art from their recycled treasures, and grumble a lot, especially when Dwight is around – which is most of the time. They unfortunately mistake ex-gangbanger Lex as their enemy even…

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“The Love Song of Sidney J. Stein at the Fresh Fruit Festival at the Wild Project (Closed July 14, 2013)

July 18, 2013 | Off-Broadway > | Tags: ,

“And indeed there will be time To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.” — From “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot Brian C. Petti’s “The Love Song of Sidney J. Stein” is an impressive retelling/re-imagining…

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“After the Chairs” at the Fresh Fruit Festival at the Wild Project (Closed July 14, 2013)

July 11, 2013 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, trapped > | Tags: , ,

All goes extremely well in David Koteles’ “After the Chairs” – his inventive reimagining/retelling of Ianesco’s “The Chairs” – until the otherwise well constructed play’s end. Marc (Allen Warnock) and his partner Richard (Don Cummings) are unique re-tellings of Ianesco’s Old Man and Old Woman. Here the couple is trapped in an absurdist cycle of caregiver-patient conversation that serves as…

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“sExtOrtiOn” at the Fresh Fruit Festival at the Wild Project (Closed July 14, 2013)

July 9, 2013 | Off-Broadway > | Tags: ,

The eleventh annual Fresh Fruit Festival launched its All Out Theatre offerings with Patrick Thomas McCarthy’s “sExtOrtiOn” a complex, multi-layered drama which tackles morally ambiguous themes with a stunning cast portraying equally morally ambiguous characters. In some ways this is an odd “place” for the Festival to begin: the gay characters in this interesting ninety-minute play are neither likable nor…

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