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New Film SPIRIT RISER To Premiere at Museum of the Moving Image This Saturday


The highly anticipated horror film, 'Spirit Riser,' is set to make its world premiere at the prestigious Museum of the Moving Image on March 30th, at 6 pm.

Shockfest Film Festival to Run at Leonard Nimoy Theater This Month


SHOCKFEST Film Festival: SHOCK The System brings innovative films, cash prizes, group discussions on surviving in the entertainment industry, and live entertainment to Leonard Nimoy Theater on December 9th. Special guests include Lloyd Kaufman and Richard Elfman.

Review: THE TOXIC AVENGER at Town Players Of New Canaan


What did our critic think of THE TOXIC AVENGER at Town Players Of New Canaan? The show is a comic satire with an irreverent, kooky edge, similar in style to “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Urinetown” and “Zombie Prom”. The opening number describes the play’s setting as “a place between heaven and hell”: New Jersey. In the fictional town of Tromaville, a mild-mannered nerd, Melvin Ferd the third is an aspiring earth scientist

Players Guild of Leonia to Present THE TOXIC AVENGER in April


Players Guild of Leonia, founded in 1919, will present the Lloyd Kaufman's cult film classic, THE TOXIC AVENGER, at the Civil War Drill Hall Theatre (130 Grand Avenue, Leonia). The show will be presented over three weekends, starting this Friday, April 14th, and closing on Sunday April 30th. Performances are 8:00pm Fridays and Saturdays, and 3:00pm on Sundays.

Get Ready for Halloween by Streaming BroadwayHD's Spookiest Shows!


Prepare to enter a world full of witches, ghosts, phantoms, and zombies. No, it isn’t a haunted house — it’s BroadwayHD! Halloween is coming up and we’ve compiled a list of our spookiest shows for you to enjoy in the month of October. Visit www.broadwayhd.com to learn more!

COOLIDGE AFTER MIDNIGHT Film Series Honors Composer Fabio Frizzi With Coolidge After Midnite Award


The Coolidge Corner Theatre's Coolidge After Midnite film series will honor legendary composer Fabio Frizzi before a special screening of Zombie on Saturday, September 17, 2022 with the fourth Coolidge After Midnite Award.

BWW Previews: THE TOXIC AVENGER al TEATRO GARBATELLA


THE TOXIC AVENGER al TEATRO GARBATELLA TORNA IN SCENA L'IRRIVERENTE E DIVERTENTE MUSICAL OFF-BROADWAY PER QUATTRO REPLICHE DALL'8 AL 10 APRILE

THE TOXIC AVENGER Plays at Questors Theatre


It's a toxic love story with an environmental twist. The Toxic Avenger will leave audiences laughing in the aisles as it rocks the house. Featuring a wailin' rock score, this musical comedy has something for everyone!

BWW Interview: FILMMAKER SETH LANDAU GETS SECOND SHOT ON TWO FEATURES


Seth Landau believes that people who are meant to find his films, will find them. MVD Entertainment Group is giving them a second chance.

VIDEO: Go Inside Rehearsals for THE TOXIC AVENGER at Questors Theatre


The Toxic Avenger is a charming love story and laugh-out-loud monster musical that has it all -- an unlikely hero, his beautiful girlfriend, a corrupt New Jersey mayor and two guys who play... well, everyone else ... bullies, mobsters, old ladies, and stiletto-wearing back-up singers.

THE TOXIC AVENGER Returns to Questors Theatre


New Jersey's favourite Superhero returns to London in this monster of a comedy based on the classic cult film!

BWW Review: THE TOXIC AVENGER al TEATRO LO SPAZIO


THE TOXIC AVENGER al TEATRO LO SPAZIO ESILARANTE, IRRIVERENTE, IMPERTINENTE, IN PRIMA NAZIONALE ITALIANA IL MUSICAL OFF-BROADWAY CHE FA PENSARE. IN SCENA FINO AL 16 GENNAIO … PER ORA.

BWW Previews: THE TOXIC AVENGER al TEATRO LO SPAZIO


BWW Previews: THE TOXIC AVENGER al TEATRO LO SPAZIO ARRIVA A ROMA IL MUSICAL OFF-BROADWAY TRATTO DALL'OMONIMO FILM CULT: IN SCENA DAL 13 AL 16 GENNAIO 2022

129 Musicals & Shows You Can Stream From Home in 2021


BroadwayWorld put together a list of all the live action musicals you can stream on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, BroadwayHD, and Disney Plus. Are you looking for something to get your mind off… all of this? So are we. Because everyone needs some escape,

The Whole Universe Will Sing Together In Harmony For The Very First Time


Music fans across the world has been waiting with bated breath for this melodic international hit song by BJ Sam featuring music stars from all the continents of the world. This is the first time the whole universe will sing together in harmony.

COMIC BOOK JUNKIES To Premiere Online


IM Filmworks will premiere a new film, written and co-directed by Lenny Schwartz and edited and co-directed by Nathan Suher, filmed during and focusing on event during the pandemic.

130+ Musicals That You Can Stream Now!


Visit our list of the best musicals & shows you can watch from home! We've got you covered with all the must-sees on streaming sites including Tony-award winners, favorite stars and top performances.

BWW Review: Street Theatre Company is on a Roll This Season: Go See TOXIC AVENGER For Proof


Street Theatre Company has been on a bit of a roll in 2019 a?' there's been a spate of terrific shows, the move into an impressive new space on Elm Hill Pike that will allow the company to grow, and they've continued the legacy created by company founders by continuing to push the envelope in ways creative and exhilarating a?' and theater-goers need no better proof of this than with their Halloween Season offering of The Toxic Avenger, which proves that entertaining musicals don't need huge casts or technical wizardry to be utterly delightful.  

BWW Review: THE TOXIC AVENGER is a Slapstick, Double Entendre Farcical Delight at Blank Canvas


Blank Canvas has a niche audience. They love slasher, off-the-wall, ridiculous plotted plays, especially musicals.

Casting Announced For Blank Canvas Theatre's THE TOXIC AVENGER


Based on Lloyd Kaufman's cult film and winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, The Toxic Avenger is a charming love story and laugh-out-loud musical that has it all: an unlikely hero, his beautiful girlfriend, a corrupt New Jersey mayor and two guys who play... well, everyone else ... Melvin Ferd, the Third, wants to clean up Tromaville, the most polluted town in New Jersey (just off Exit 13B on the Turnpike). Foiled by the mayor's bullies, Melvin is dumped into a vat of radioactive toxic waste, only to reemerge as The Toxic Avenger, New Jersey's first superhero. Affectionately known as Toxie, our new hero is a seven-foot mutant freak with superhuman strength and a heart as big as Newark. He's out to save New Jersey, end global warming, and woo the blind librarian in town.

Lloyd Kaufman FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has Lloyd Kaufman written?

Lloyd Kaufman has written 1 shows including The Toxic Avenger (Source Material).

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