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Now in the Q-Box: FRINGE!
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A people's tyrant. A virtuous assassin. A conspiracy to dethrone a God. In a modern Rome of blood-stained hands and savage mobs, Brutus is a patriot without an exit strategy. Is he an honorable man? This production of Julius Ceasar seeks out the heart of Shakespeare's famous play.
Julius Ceasar's Diana Buirski steps into this special Fringe-inspired Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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Legalizing "humane torture" in America under ticking bomb circumstances, The Dershowitz Protocol explores how far we will go to regain our global dignity and at what cost. Real characters, real questions, real consequences...the time is now.
The Dershowitz Protocol's producer Anthony Frisina steps into this special Fringe-inspired Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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A versatile ensemble takes the music of life and turns it inside out! From quick-change comic souffle set in a museum to the rhythms of a man's life performed to a conductor's baton. An original and imaginative theatrical experience.
Ed Wierzbicki, Artistic Director of the New Zenith Theatre, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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It's 1850 on a plantation in Alabama and slaves Ruth and Jacob are in love. The plantation owner is permitting them to marry, but there's a catch. A rape. A secret. A birth. A mystery. A murder. A sweeping tale of obsession, possession, and the freedom to love.
Ascension's playwright, Cynthia G. Robinson, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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People are starving. Child labor is legal. Religion is Law. Welcome to "Paradise"! A new form of slavery has arisen from the gentrification of America, carried to its logical extreme. Can the children of Paradise escape their fate? Maybe...
Exodus's playwright, Daren Taylor, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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No sixteen-year-old wants to be seen with his parents, lesbian or otherwise. Sprung from the laboratory into the shopping mall, feral freak boy Joe is badgered by his dad, picked on by classmates... oh, and mom has a new girlfriend!?!
Raised By Lesbians' actor, Matthew Glogowksi, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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Smoking. Drinking. Cutting. How do you cope? A patchwork of true stories delve into what it really means to be a self-injurer. Tying it together? One young woman, sitting in an empty Indian restaurant with her dad, revealing her secret.
From The Inside, Out's Maggie Keenan-Bolger steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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This one-act adaptation of Hamlet re-imagines Shakespeare's 400-year-old tragedy, and lands it in the 21st century. Lines and characters are rearranged to tell the story of Claudius, who oversees the prison where Hamlet is being held for murder, and cruelly interrogated. Security cameras watch his every move as Hamlet plots revenge against his father's assassins.
Bound in a Nutshell's actress Monique Vukovic steps into this special Fringe-inspired Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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Hopes, fears and courage. Join Stars in a Dark Sky characters Hans and Sophie Scholl inside WWII Germany as they turn from forced service in Hitler Youth to organizing student resistance against Nazi atrocities--challenging the silent majority. Is their choice worth the price? A true story.
R.E. Vickers, pseudonym for the family of four that collaborated in writing Stars in a Dark Sky, steps into this special Fringe-inspired Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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In Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, a child living in the city kills seven flies with a single swat and makes a belt emblazoned with "SEVEN IN ONE BLOW" to commemorate the event. As he is traveling about, most people think his belt refers to seven people and assign the Kid all kinds of difficult tasks based on this faulty presumption. Along the way a few interesting things are learned: an Ogre finds that you don't always have to show how strong you are... sometimes it's okay just to be quiet about it; a girl realizes that when you tease people you are hurting someone who may be just like you; and a scary monster understands that because she is loved, she may not be so scary after all. In the end, the Kid ultimately discovers that a parents' love and care has no bounds.
Seven in One Blow director Randy Sharp steps into the Q-Box to answer out always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions.
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Mixing the labyrinthine wordplay of Jorge Louis Borges with the ideas of Edward Said and the slapstick comedy of Monty Python, up-and-coming playwright Jason Grote's 1001 hyperlinks Scheherazade's tales to contemporary Manhattan. Time blurs and reality is fractured and reconstructed in a world inhabited by characters whose identity shifts unpredictably and deliriously. With rollicking storytelling, a touch of magic realism, and even a little trip-hop music, 1001 simultaneously defaces and energizes A Thousand and One Arabian Nights to guide us through a tour of the dizzyingly precarious world of the 21st century.
1001 playwright Jason Grote steps into the Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions. Click for more!
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THE ROCKAE: Pent-up King Pentheus takes on Dionysus and his frenzied female fans when the god of wine and theater returns to Thebes. Get ready for moshing Maenads and thrashing catharsis in this rock musical adaptation of Euripides' classic, The Bacchae. Drama Desk-nominated writer Peter Mills fuses the intensity of hard rock with the violence of ancient Greek tragedy.
THE ROCKAE director and producer Cara Reichel steps into the Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions. Click for more!
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In Days and Nights, playwright Marc Stuart Weitz re-imagines the iconic story of Anne Frank via Chekhov's The Seagull, using that play's dialogue to explore what it means to be trapped and confined, what is that that traps us and, most importantly, how can we be free?
Days and Nights adaptor and director, Marc Stuart Weitz, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions. Click for more!
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Incompetent storytellers, angry peasant mobs, Germans, metrosexual emperors and a frisky nun, The Life and Times of Martin Luther (Reformed) tells the story of a monk with hemorrhoids who sparked the movement that changed the world, in just over an hour.
Life and Times...playwright and director, Jarrod Jabre, steps into this special Fringe-inspired Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions. Click for more!
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Everyone dies, because they're bad people. It's Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare's bloodiest play, reworked into a Mel Brooks-style musical, accidentally losing iambic pentameter and empathy. Thematic revenge with overtones of pie illustrates that happy endings are for children's books and massage parlors.
Tragedy's writer and director, Mike Johnson, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions. Click for more!
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What if the Sopranos moved to Wisteria Lane? The Brooklyn-born Bianchino family, beat up, broke down and renamed "The Dukes" by the Federal Witness Protection Program, struggle to remain anonymous in their new home, but surviving the Mob is one thing; surviving Suburbia, however, that's something completely different.
The Program's playwright, Michele Aldin, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions. Click for more!
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Obsessed with video games, a young boy named Helmet learns that the game shop where he spends most of his days, is closing down. Sal, the owner, despises guys like Helmet and blames them for his, and the shop's, downfall. Sal takes his now ample time pining for his wife's return, dodging his father, and trying to convince Helmet to change his ways. Based on the exhilarating format of a video game, this highly innovative and deeply moving play charts Sal and Helmet's fight for survival.
Playwright Douglas Maxwell, the man behind Helmet, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions. Click for more!
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A youthful twist on a classic Russian comedy. The Studio Six Ensemble performs with a nod to their roots at the Moscow Art Theater. As Glumov claws his way up in society through trickery and slander he unwittingly writes his own demise...
Too Clever by Half actress, Jill Dion, steps into this special Fringe-centric Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions. Click for more!
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Waterwell's The King/Operetta, hailed by nytheater.com as "The next milestone of American musical theatre," tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the last year of his life, as King barnstormed the country, squaring off against the most powerful forces in politics and commerce.
Waterwell producer, actor and the show's director, Tom Ridgely, steps into the Q-Box to answer our always informative, albeit mostly ridiculous, questions. Click for more!
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Doppelganger translated from the German means "the bilocation of one's self," a potentially heady concept that playwright Simon Heath mines to the fullest in his new play of the same name. The play opens with one man, Frank, divided, quite literally -- in the same instant Frank is plummeting to death from a fall from his office building, he's also in the midst of a affair with a co-worker. Time and space play tricks on both player and audience in this haunting new work where existence and identity are explored in the search for understanding.
Doppleganger's producer, Ross Peabody, stepped into the Q-Box for us to answer a few questions about all that and more! Click for more!
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Alzheimers, Adolescence and...Aliens? It's a combination you don't usually expect to see on stage, but both Nicu's Spoon and playwright Constance Congdon tackle the questions without the easy answers. Click for more! |
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Sure, Broadway's got glam, with its big-budget values and full-page ads in The Times. And yeah, Lincoln Center's cornered the market on offering thousands of great performances. But before the big name stars saw their names in lights, they started small. After all, Jonathan Larson (Rent) once had shows downtown in the Village, and Savion Glover (Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk and "Happy Feet") spent hours in Manhattan dance studios before getting his big break. Artists of all stripes come to NYC in hopes of becoming the Next Big Thing -- and you can catch them on the way up.
High 5's got hundreds of shows from great artists who are itching to be discovered -- and that's why we invite them into the Q-Box, a place where an artist or performer fields a few questions that give you an insider's look at soon-to-be stars. Check out the Q-Box for extra info on a High 5 show -- then head out and catch the Next Big Thing!
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