{"id":948,"date":"2010-08-27T18:53:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T23:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2010-08-27T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T23:54:50","slug":"on-the-fringes-of-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"On the Fringes of Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fringenyc.org\/\">FringeNYC 2010<\/a> is drawing to a close.  I caught a handful of shows, mostly ones that happened to be playing at days and times when I happened to be free.  Here are links to my reviews:<\/p>\n<p>One of the best I saw was <i><a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/culture\/article\/theater-review-nyc-the-hyperbolist-at\/\">The Hyperbolist<\/a><\/i>, a one-man puppet-non-puppet show by Joe Mazza.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the gospel of the Rev. Bill &#038; Betty <a href=\"http:\/\/showshowdown.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/fringe-interfaith-understanding-with.html\">failed to ignite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I was happy the <a href=\"http:\/\/showshowdown.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/fringe-amsterdam-abortion-survivor.html\">Amsterdam Abortion Survivor<\/a> survived to tell the tale.<\/p>\n<p>A welcome performance of Schiller&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/showshowdown.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/fringe-maid-of-orleans.html\">Maid of Orleans<\/a><\/em>, a play I&#8217;d never seen, boasted a couple of fine performances but overall it disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>However, Jeff Kreisler&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/showshowdown.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/fringe-get-rich-cheating.html\">Get Rich Cheating<\/a><\/em>, while hitting mostly easy targets, added up to entertaining and effective satire.<\/p>\n<p>And in <i>Jen and Liz in Love<\/i>, Jesse Weaver cooked up an honestly touching story of <a href=\"http:\/\/showshowdown.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/fringe-jen-and-liz-in-love.html\">love and regret<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A batch of Fringe Festival shows ran the gamut from very good to just plain disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-city","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}