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Much Ado About Nothing , written by William Shakespeare and directed by Megan Lummus, will be presented as part of the 2024 Little Shakespeare Festival with FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009) with performances on Fri August 9 at 9pm, Sat August 10 at 7pm & Sun August 11 at 2pm. Tickets ($25 in person, $20 streaming) are available for advance purchase at www.frigid.nyc. The performance will run approximately 90 minutes. The Little Shakespeare Festival is FRIGID New York’s annual celebration of independent theatre and performance that takes inspiration from the immortal bard, William Shakespeare. Each year, companies are offered a different theme or idea to help guide their work. This year the festival’s theme is Camaraderie and Community. Much Ado About Nothing is a classic Shakespeare tale of love, trust, and deceit. Claudio  is madly in love with Hero but is tricked into believing she is unchaste, and that is nearly their undoing. Meanwhil

Justy Kosek and Cherrye J. Davis. Photo by Hannah Sgambellone. Alexander Perez’s new two hander, The Bad in Each Other , is slated to have its New York City Premiere at The Tank in midtown Manhattan this summer. The limited engagement runs for 7 performances between July 24 and August 3. The play previously received a workshop production at Playwrights Horizons during the 2023 Downtown Urban Arts Festival, where it was named runner-up for Best Play. The Bad in Each Other is directed by Paula Ali ( The Jason Williams Experience /Alvin Ailey).  In the play, what begins as a hot fling between Karma, the ultimate artist badass we all wish we could be, and Felix, the soft, privileged soyboy most of us are, evolves into a years-long passionate tug-of-war that consumes both parties as they struggle to reconcile their ideologies, lust, and exhaustion. What is creative success but a means to betray your ideals? What is activism if not a means to apologize for privilege? Can’t we just stay home

Coney Island Nursery Rhyme Written and directed by Lubomir Rzepka Presented at the NuBox Theatre 754 9th Ave, 4th floor, Manhattan, NYC July 12-20th, 2024   Judge Boothby, Mike Timoney, Jessica Noboa, & Phyllis Lindy. Photo by Valerie Terranova A close relation belonging to one of these reviewers had to be placed in an incubator as a premature infant in the 1950s. How many of us realize that we could draw a straight line between that relative being alive today and a Coney Island sideshow? Inspired in part by reading Dawn Raffel's book The Strange Case of Dr. Couney , playwright and director Lubomir Rzepka created Coney Island Nursery Rhyme , which spotlights a fascinating, lesser-known story from medical history. The directorial debut from Rzepka–who also fronts the band Bleak March –and his first written work to be produced on the stage, the compelling Coney Island Nursery Rhyme takes audiences to a time when preemies were written off by many, including in the medical establ

Climate Fables: The Trash Garden Written and directed by Padraig Bond Presented by Torch Ensemble at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's 308 W 46th St., Manhattan, NYC July 13-14, 2024 L to R: Kristen Hoffman, Padraig Bond, Luis Feliciano, Penelope Deen As heat records continue to fall and extreme weather proliferates (if only anyone could have predicted this!), the timeliness of Padraig Bond's Climate Fables project seems, one might say, scorchingly obvious. One of these Fables , The Trash Garden , imagines the post-climate-apocalypse world as a kind of anti-Eden populated by what may well be the last two people on Earth, presenting funny, touching snapshots of the pair as they negotiate and contemplate their existence and one another. The Trash Garden was most recently presented as part of Playhouse 46's Turn The Lights On! Festival , which presents, in collaboration with FRIGID New York and the New York City Fringe Festival, 11 shows from this year's Fringe Festival to r

Laurizarry will present once again If I Did, You Deserved It , written by Jess Lauricello and directed by Casey Kelly, as an encore performance from the 2024 Queerly Festival with FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009) on Saturday, June 27 at 10:30pm.  A party seemingly thrown by no one that you definitely wouldn’t have been invited to full of people that you hate, followed by eternal damnation! Come judge other people for fun. Don’t worry, you totally have every right to. If I Did, You Deserved It , produced by new Gen Z theatre company Laurizarry and directed by Casey Kelly, is a new play from award-losing playwright Jess Lauricello that’s probably a comedy. It was FRIGID New York’s Show of the Month of June 2024 and was described as “snappy and vibrant” and “quick-witted” by Theatre Beyond Broadway . Tickets (up to $25 on a sliding scale) are available for advance purchase at  www.frigid.nyc . The performance will run approximately 60 minutes. The ca

Too Much of a Good Thing Written, directed, and performed by Rachel Redleaf Presented by RAR Entertainment at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's 308 W 46th St., Manhattan, NYC July 8-18, 2024 Rachel Redleaf. Photo courtesy of Rachel Redleaf. If the number of slang terms for something is proportional to the space it takes up in the cultural imaginary, then, as the opening of actor, singer, and comedian Rachel Redleaf's coruscating solo show Too Much of a Good Thing suggests, women's breasts boast quite a footprint. That this video introduction is delivered by a puppet named Rachel Too quickly establishes the expert tonal balance that the show strikes, taking an overwhelmingly comedic approach to Redleaf's sometimes traumatic experiences as a woman carrying the weight, literal and otherwise, of very large breasts. Too Much of a Good Thing is currently part of Playhouse 46's Turn The Lights On! Festival, which presents, in collaboration with FRIGID New York and the New Y