Michael Shaw Fisher

Ok... So I've been reading some of these reviews of the fringe award party and I am pretty sad. I usually wouldnt dignify this stuff with a response but I can't help myself. So they didn't have fans! I think the freakish heat took everyone by surprise and once all those people got in the seats it got hotter. We didn't need fans in the same space last year so how could they know? Also, are you going to begrudge them for not giving a special shout out to you for doing an opera?! I'm s... full review

John Grady is my hero. Words don't do justice to the show so I'm just gonna stop there...... full review

This is my first Bill Ratner show and I am officially furious with myself for not having seen his last show Voices in my Head. The man is just so good at what he does. He is such an awesome, good hearted badass. I think Bobby would be proud of this show. What a tribute!!!!... full review

A show after my own heart. I loved every damn moment Roger Wodehouse was throwing his glam around. Don't argue with me or I'll bite your face off... Wait... If the show taught me anything it is that people are entitled to their own opinions... Some people are cats and others dogs... Some are both. Ah yes... I take back my hostility with my apologies. Bow-wow-meow;) PS. You may need to SEE the show to get that last reference.... full review

For personal reasons I found the story difficult to watch at times but there is NO questioning the level of quality put into this production. The performers devote themselves 100% to the story and this is not easy material to navigate. The invalid older man is "dying" (or so he says) and it seems everything he touches is marked to whither alongside him. He's a vacume of a former star who does not know how to handle the humiliation of old age nor how to claim his nature again. The last image th... full review

Rarely does one develop such affection for a performer as I did for Deanne Flaysher in the course of one hour. Her depiction of Butt Kapinski was the perfect blend of mysterious, absurd, and inventive childishness. The show is billed as a" film noir fantasi"a which it is but it all takes place within Butt Kapinski's child-like fantasy like a 7 year old on the playground creating an inaginary world in which every single audience member provides one piece of the puzzle. The show began with a s... full review

That was certainly the most original and weird experience I've had at the fringe thus far. Divine camp - that's what it is. It's not even the outrageous moments where the show pays off (the babysitter breast-feed rape or the bloody finale), it's in the ever-outrageous presentation of every single line and beat that makes this show a bit of a monster… The stage design just like the performances. Are equivalent to technicolor vomit that does not let up for the full hour in 25 minutes. Of course ... full review

A backwoods beat poetry noir performed among the clink of cocktails and the blanket of throbbing red lights and leering shadows. A sort of ritual with no purpose but dig and dig and dig, and as the search opens to rhyme and the rhyme falls into rhythm, the strange man in the fedora and a bottle in his hand leads us to wonder and marvel at both the maddening syncopation of his craft and the false duality of heaven and hell. It's common knowelege that Aaron Lyons already was a devil, a growling, ... full review

This show is about believing in yourself no matter what other people say. Even though this piece needs lots of work (one problem being her statistics which a lot of people are not going to agree with) she succeeded in pulling me in and respecting her bravery. Having a show of my own at the fringe and being addicted to reading reviews, I am sometimes tempted to become distracted with popular opinion - but this isn't, or in my opinion shouldn't be the primary reason why we make the art we make. ... full review

A Jerry Springer wet dream. So glad I was in attendance. Such a devoted cast and great direction. Keep going guys!!!!... full review