Thinking Theater NYC

Hunter and Li Find Toni Collette Written by Liam Blanchard Presented by Something from Abroad and FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks 94 Saint Marks Pl., Manhattan, NYC October 24, 2024 Buying or moving into a new home is always a dicey proposition in the horror genre; ask any couple, from The Amityville Horror 's Lutzes to Malik and Aaron of 2019's Spiral . To this list, we can add the titular Hunter and Li from playwright Liam Blanchard's hilarious, high-energy farce Hunter and Li Find Toni Collette . This past week's performance of Hunter and Li Find Toni Collette was part of FRIGID New York's Days of the Dead festival, which is inspired by Día de Muertos and runs from October 17th to November 2nd, featuring a range of shows themed around death and the afterlife. In the play's early going, Li (Liam Blanchard) just wants to spend a nice evening watching the Toni Collette-starring horror film Hereditary with Hunter (Hunter Anderson) in their newly purchase...

The Script in the Closet Written and directed by Joyce Griffen Presented by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club at The Downstairs 66 E 4th St., Manhattan, NYC March 1-17, 2024 FRONT L-R: Kristin Johansen as Valerie, Ruth Kavanagh as jealous wife Lynn. BEHIND: Tom Staggs as Noah. Photo by Jonathan Slaff. Some way into The Script in the Close t, a new farce from multidisciplinary artist Joyce Griffen, its characters are reduced to literally stumbling around in the dark, a scene that also serves as a neat metaphor for the misunderstandings and suspicions that have brought them to this point in the play. The titular script in Griffen's farce reveals more about the show's characters than just their writing chops as it takes up numerous narrative threads to be tied off by the close of its two hours. The play opens with actors Micha (Tina Harper) and Robert (Patrick Huang) preparing to perform at the birthday of a child of a wealthy Upper East Side family. Their performance provides bo...