Latest Articles About Ridiculousness on MTV![]() by Jade Kops - September 08, 2017 Peter Quilter's play GLORIOUS, about the famously terrible amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins (Diana McLean), is a highly entertaining look at what happens when self-confidence collides with delusional belief in one's own abilities.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - December 04, 2017 In the spirit of Will & Grace, Roseanne, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and other television shows that are coming back after concluding all those years ago, Buntport Theater Company is reviving its first live sit-com! Back when Buntport was first starting up, they created a sit-com that played every other w... ![]() by Jade Kops - April 23, 2018 Combining the force of some fabulous comic actors, SAMI IN PARADISE presents an absurd piece that utilises humour to address the humanitarian issues that are occurring around the world.... ![]() by Stephi Wild - July 30, 2018 The 44th Mainstage Season at the Hangar Theatre continues with A Doll's House, Part 2, from August 2 to 11. Directed by Michael Barakiva and written by Lucas Hnath, almost 140 years after the original's first performance. In 1879 Henrik Ibsen produced the story of Nora Helmer, a wife and mother at a... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - September 26, 2018 The award-winning guerrilla-theater comedy 'I'm Gonna Kill the President!' A Federal Offense will return to Los Angeles this fall, apropos of absolutely nothing happening in America.... ![]() by Julie Musbach - June 20, 2018 Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to announce casting for THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE, the final play by the legendary master of camp, Charles Ludlam.... ![]() by Jade Kops - September 20, 2017 DINNER invites the audience to peer in on the world of the arrogant and affluent as they posture and pose through a night of feigned civility with backhanded barbs.... ![]() by Stephi Wild - April 13, 2018 Pipeline Theatre Company (Ari Schrier, Artistic Director; Natalie Gershtein, Producing Director) is proud to announce the world premiere of jazz concert-party-play hybrid PLAYING HOT, created by Kevin Armento (Balls) and Jaki Bradley (Good Men Wanted). PLAYING HOT is written by Armento, will be dire...
Photo Flash: DONALD TRUMP Pays a Visit to Planet Connections
by A.A. Cristi - June 16, 2017 This series of comedy sketches serves as a chronology which follows the self-induced disastrous relationship with the public and the ridiculousness that has plagued the current POTUS. ... ![]() by Ellin Sears - May 13, 2018 During comedy festivals it's quite common to see comedians meeting with fans and audience members after the show. But Janelle Koenig is the first one I've seen at the Perth Comedy Festival who came out BEFORE the show to have a chat.... ![]() by Macon Prickett - February 21, 2018 While this week we're celebrating our country's rich history of distinguished gentlemen who've held the title of POTUS, The Big Ditties have no time for that shit. Instead they're throwing a bitch slap at Not-My-President Trump with their latest fiasco 'More Than SAD!' (A Donald Trump Dittie). A per... ![]() by Sam Abney - May 21, 2018 As acknowledged by Director Kiernan McGowan's program note, Pericles is a hot mess of a show. It was only half-written by Shakespeare, completed later by George Wilkins (who isn't remembered for good reason). The incoherence of the plot reveals the fractured nature of the play's creation. It's under... ![]() by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2018 This fall, Hell in a Handbag Productions is thrilled to explore THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE, the final play by the legendary master of camp, Charles Ludlam. Who better to direct this criminal tale of lust and murder than Hell in a Handbag's longtime partner in crime, Shade Murray of A Red Orchid Theatre. ...
BWW Review: Black comedy, “An Impending Rupture of The Belly,” insights at none-too-fragile
by Roy Berko - June 27, 2017 Matt Pelfrey is noted for inventing oddball concepts and writing sardonic dialogue. His 'An Impending Rupture of the Belly,' now on stage at none-too-fragile, is Pelfrey at his 'creative' black comedy best.... ![]() by Julie Musbach - June 25, 2018 Florida Studio Theatre (FST) is proud to announce its first show of the 2018-2019 Winter Mainstage Season: the Tony Award-winning musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Called one of the "Most inspired new musicals in years" by The New York Times, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder fol... ![]() by Jill Schafer - February 22, 2018 My 280-character (or less) review of Theater Mu and Mixed Blood Theatre's first ever collaboration: 'Friends, run don't walk to see #twomilehollow (co-production from @theatermu and @mixed_blood). I can't decide whom I love most in this cast of comic geniuses! But behind all the wackiness and humor ... ![]() by Julie Musbach - January 09, 2018 A supervillain brings his show to London to get help from badly behaved children.... ![]() by A.A. Cristi - September 10, 2018 Following a hugely successful run at both The Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA, and at The Hollywood Fringe Festival (winning the Encore Producers' Award), MdB Productions is pleased to present Mulatto Math: Summing Up the Race Equation in America at United Solo Fest 2018. Featuring playwright ... ![]() by Shari Barrett - March 25, 2018 Real Art Daily Productions (RADProd) is a new company that produces both film and theatre productions. With concentrated study and education in both classical music and theatre, Georginna Feyst, CEO and Executive Producer, whose reverence for fine art, cinema, theatre and other forms of storytelling... ![]() by Barbara Johnson - October 17, 2018 Returning to MetroStage for its tenth anniversary, ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE boasts an enthusiastic two-person cast and energetic backing band. It's exactly as described, a simple girl-meets-boy tale steeped in 1970s musical flair. But instead of boiling the romance down to timeless emotion, the book's ... ![]() by Jay Irwin - April 15, 2018 On the surface Olivia Dufault's "Year of the Rooster" doesn't seem like a fun night out filled with laughs. A play about a failed trainer for cock fights. And to be honest it packs an ending that will not send you whistling into the street filled with hope for tomorrow. But this is MAP Theatre, a...
MFF Cabaret Returns to SubCulture This Saturday
by A.A. Cristi - May 30, 2017 Join your favorite Mark Fisher Fitness staff members this Saturday, June 3 at SubCulture (45 Bleecker Street) for 'Mark Fisher Fitness Unplugged,' an evening of song, dance, and sexy shenanigans benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Doors open at 8 PM and the show starts at 8:30 PM. Tickets ...
MFF Cabaret Returns to SubCulture This Saturday
by A.A. Cristi - May 30, 2017 Join your favorite Mark Fisher Fitness staff members this Saturday, June 3 at SubCulture (45 Bleecker Street) for 'Mark Fisher Fitness Unplugged,' an evening of song, dance, and sexy shenanigans benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Doors open at 8 PM and the show starts at 8:30 PM. Tickets ... ![]() by Stephi Wild - February 28, 2018 New York based creator of comedy, music, and film Lauren Maul (NY Times, Amazon Reviews: The Musical!) is announcing the release of her album Apologies from Men. The album will be available for purchase on March 9th, 2018, and she will be debuting the songs live at a concert at The People's Improv ... ![]() by Roy Berko - August 27, 2017 Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Edward Albee are Theatre of the Absurd playwrights. Unlike modern-movement writers like Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William Inge, who wrote realistic plays which included solutions to problems or resolved situations, the Absurdists based th... |