NY Review: 'Independents'
"Independents," with a book by Marina Keegan, at the New York Fringe Festival, is a beautifully crafted musical about the doubts and fears of 20-somethings. More »

NY Review: 'The Great Pie Robbery…or, We Really Knead the Dough'
"The Great Pie Robbery," Ben Tostado's send-up of 19th-century melodrama in the Fringe, feels belligerent rather than affectionate toward the genre. More »

NY Review: 'Gay Camp'
The Fringe's "Gay Camp" is an entertaining if erratic romp that's distinguished by the comic agility of its three-person cast juggling multiple roles. More »

NY Review: 'The Women of Spoon River: Their Voices From the Hill'
Actor-adapter Lee Meriwether's "The Women of Spoon River," a Fringe entry, focuses on the distaff population of Edgar Lee Masters' epitaphs to vivid effect. More »

NY Review: 'Pulp Shakespeare'
A nimbly funny Fringe mash-up from Her Majesty's Secret Players, "Pulp Shakespeare" imagines how the Bard might have written the film "Pulp Fiction." More »

NY Review: 'The Art of Painting'
Written and performed by Mark Chrisler, "The Art of Painting," a Fringe Festival show, is a masterful piece of heady writing about painter Jan Vermeer. More »

NY Review: 'Love Death Brains: A Pete Rydberg Musical Meme'
An experiment to see if humans and zombies can coexist is at the center of "Love Death Brains," a promising but flawed tuner in the Fringe Festival. More »

NY Review: 'Quest for the West: Adventures on the Oregon Trail!'
Based on the Oregon Trail computer game, "Quest for the West" is a Fringe musical that plays for nostalgic laughs, with promising hints of a deeper story. More »

NY Review: 'MisSpelled'
"Bewitched" heads to the borscht belt in this hokey Fringe tuner from D'Jamin Bartlett and Mark Bornfield about a witch and a nebbishy songwriter. More »

NY Review: 'Right on Target'
There's a lot of plot but little hilarity in Gary Morgenstein's "Right on Target," a Fringe political comedy about a mixed-race couple in Washington, D.C. More »

NY Review: 'Bang!: The Curse of John Wilkes Booth
A dandy one-man Fringe show written and performed by Scott Baker, "Bang!: The Curse of John Wilkes Booth" explores the myth that Booth was never captured. More »

NY Review: 'After the Circuit'
Josh Billig's "After the Circuit," a Fringe Festival show, is overloaded with backstory as it depicts a vaudevillian's struggles during the Depression. More »

NY Review: 'Have I Got a Girl for You'
Gay actor-author Josh Mesnik's autobiographical Fringe comedy "Have I Got a Girl for You" details his adventures working for a Florida prostitution ring. More »

NY Review: 'Danny Visconti Is Hill-bent: My Night With Hillary Clinton'
"Danny Visconti Is Hill-bent: My Night With Hillary Clinton," a musical standup act in the Fringe Festival, is too self-consciously outrageous to succeed. More »

NY Review: 'Tail! Spin!'
Mario Correa's Fringe concoction "Tail! Spin!" arranges the comments of Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Mark Sanford, and Anthony Weiner for big if cynical laughs. More »

NY Review: 'We Crazy, Right?'
Jeff Seabaugh's inspiring one-man play "We Crazy, Right?," a Fringe Festival entry, tells how he and his husband created a family through adoption. More »

NY Review: 'Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness!'
Fringe show "Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness!" delivers an hour of insightful comedy before becoming a tired academic debate about theater. More »

NY Review: '2 Households, 2 Assholes: Shakespeare's R+J'
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" gets a crackling airing in this Fringe show as two terrific actors take on all the characters in a fast-moving hour. More »

NY Review: 'I <3 Revolution'
Three amusingly inept revolutionaries kidnap the audience at the Living Theatre in Hist 123's hilarious Fringe Festival offering, "I <3 Revolution." More »

NY Review: 'Saharava: A Ritualized Dance-Opera'
Spellbinding Fringe entry "Saharava" combines inventive choreography and Eastern-flavored music to trace the birth, life, and rebirth of a young Everywoman. More »

NY Review: 'Canon in D Minor'
Jessica Liadsky's "Canon in D Minor," a Fringe entry, overflows with emotion, with three actors playing one grieving heroine, but is nevertheless affecting. More »

NY Review: 'An Evening With Kirk Douglas'
The title of this Fringe show is "An Evening With Kirk Douglas," but the character serves as little more than a plot point for some very uneven comedy. More »

NY Review: 'Night of the Auk'
Fringe show "Night of the Auk" is a campy revival of Arch Obler's 1956 drama about mankind's first trip to the moon, originally directed by Sidney Lumet. More »

NY Review: '5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche'
Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood's "5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche" is light and fluffy Fringe fare that finds a fresh voice with relevant issues. More »

NY Review: 'Tin Bucket Drum'
"Tin Bucket Drum," the Imbewu Trust's South African fable of a girl born with rhythm who challenges a police state, is told lyrically by Mpume Mthombeni. More »