Evan O'Television in Double Negatives by Mark Peikert

Every cliché of a Fringe Festival offering is on full display in this unfunny, boring one-person show.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Nance O'Neil by Mark Peikert

Never mind the title; David Foley's intriguing new drama is all about the lingering mystery of Lizzie Borden.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Now Circa Then by Mark Peikert

There is an embarrassment of riches to be found at Ars Nova with the premiere of playwright Carly Mensch's gorgeous one-act "Now Circa Then."

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Ritter, Dene, Voss by Mark Peikert

Two battling sisters anxiously await the return of their prodigal brother, with whom they share a fraught relationship. No, it's not a revival of Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic."

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Tiny Geniuses by Mark Peikert

Every nails-on-a-chalkboard cliché inherent in adult actors playing children is in evidence in "Tiny Geniuses," a new comedy about first grade.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Ankhst by Mark Peikert

Walk like an Egyptian straight past this comically bad revival of Clarinda Karpov's 1989 play.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

“Sylvia Plath” and Easy-Off by Mark Peikert

Elisabeth Gray and a talking oven bring the poet back to lifeTruman Capote once described a sheet of paper he spied in a young woman's typewriter. It read, “Sylvia Plath, I hate you/ A…

SOURCE: TDF at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Mark Peikert

Playwrights Horizons reminds us that theater can still make us think

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Temp Work by Mark Peikert

Neil LaBute’s new play has a man finding God (and fame) during an office massacre

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Stuck in the Middle With Them by Mark Peikert

Loneliness is my sweet spot; I can’t get enough of things that limn the depths of desperate solitude. The list of really great treatments of lonely people is a surprisingly long one (I…

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Lighting Up Off-Off-Broadway by Mark Peikert

Chiara Montalto reminds us that theater doesn’t need flash to succeed

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Are You Nobody Too? by Mark Peikert

The inmates run their own asylum in the dreary ‘Elling’

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Protected by Mark Peikert

Have we forgotten what the "Fringe" in Fringe Festival means? Apparently playwright-director Timothy Scott Harris has, because there's nothing fresh, original, or offbeat in his sagging new …

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A Few Doors Down From Uranus by Mark Peikert

A Fringe Fest transfer sheds its charm in its move uptown

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'Bunked!' by Mark Peikert

Alaina Kunin and Bradford Proctor have written a funny, hip musical about hormone-addled counselors at Camp Timberlake that has attracted an abnormally talented cast, here displayed to perfe…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'Brian Dykstra's Ho!' by Mark Peikert

This new one-man holiday show has its moments but fails to ignite good cheer in the audience's' heart.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Land Whale Murders by Mark Peikert

Jonathan A. Goldberg's comedic murder mystery is a refreshingly successful off-the-wall comedy that never overwhelms its flimsy premise.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Over and Over by Mark Peikert

Writer-director Tim Aumiller's bare-bones staging of his new play is only partly successful.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Returning to the (Milk) Well by Mark Peikert

MilkMilkLemonade gets an Off-Off Broadway remount
Time Stands Still might be getting all the attention for returning to Broadway just months after it premiered last season, but Donald Margulies' play isn't the o...

SOURCE: TDF at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The (Screen)Play’s the Thing by Mark Peikert

Pragmatism is no match for vanity in ScreenPlay, a very funny new play about what, exactly, success means.

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Poor People Problems by Mark Peikert

Surprisingly, for someone who has apparently never written before, Blood From a Stone is an engaging, occasionally amusing and frequently wrenching new drama.

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Breaking Point by Mark Peikert

Lincoln Center is currently holding some of Broadway’s brightest talent in a musical prison

SOURCE: www.nypress.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Making Theatre in “Qatar” by Mark Peikert

How two Jewish New Yorkers went to the Middle East and came back with two musicalsFor most people, e-mails from foreign countries written in broken English are an instant signal to hit delet…

SOURCE: TDF at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A Rockette Prepares for Christmas by Mark Peikert

How Rockettes train (and unwind) during the Radio City Christmas Spectacular — The Rockettes may be synonymous with the holiday season, but the high-kicking dancers stay busy throughou…

SOURCE: TDF at 9:00am on December 3, 2014☆⚑

Be Careful With That Axe! by Mark Peikert

Forget bowling pins—the members of Cirque Alfonse prefer to juggle heavy-duty cutting tools — “Some things that we were trying to use, like big bear traps or stuff like tha…

SOURCE: TDF at 12:11pm on October 9, 2014☆⚑