Bill Ratner
Breed or Bust
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June 03, 2022
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We just saw Joyful Raven’s exquisite Friday night June 3rd performance in front of a full house—a brilliant show that won my admiration and gratitude for a truly exquisite, funny, beautifully crafted, heart-rending, complex story. And Joyful’s storytelling chops are so sharp, so relaxed, so on point. Congrats on a wonderful Fringe show!
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A Night Out by Harold Pinter
bill ratner
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June 28, 2019
certified reviewer
A very likable ensemble effort to lift this 60 year old Pinter play into the 21st century was successful. This dark, absurdist comedy of manners and indictment of middle-class British stiff upper lips still breathes and shocks and makes us laugh thanks to the well-coordinated, tightly directed, and talented troupe of actors whose accents I wondered about in the beginning, but after they warmed to the play and the night's audience the acting and East End accents cracked along into the dark night o...
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Understanding the Quantum
bill ratner
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June 26, 2017
certified reviewer
Matt Chait: actor, director, teacher, theater manager…quantum physics theorist?…HELL YEAH! I’ve only seen Matt without his manager/owner-of-The-Complex hat once when he solo-acted in an evening of I.L. Peretz stories, and that was absolutely lovely. But Understanding the Quantum is so far out of most people’s wheelhouses that I didn’t even need wheels to thoroughly enjoy it. Chait is obviously in love with this fascinating and mysterious subject, perhaps because as he says, it’s “weird” science, ...
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Fuck Tinder
bill ratner
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June 11, 2017
certified reviewer
20th Century Fox could attract people back to the cinemas if Fuck Tinder were their big summer release!!...
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PATRIOT ACT
bill ratner
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June 26, 2016
certified reviewer
Think Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, with a smidgen of Michael Moore and Viola Spolin thrown in....
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Nine Dresses: Sex, Death, Fashion
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June 26, 2016
certified reviewer
The sexiest, most intelligent show in the Fringe!...
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Shitty Awful Everything
bill ratner
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June 24, 2016
certified reviewer
Energetic, frenetic, super callifragilistic expialidoshus!...
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Squeeze My Cans
bill ratner
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June 19, 2016
certified reviewer
An absolutely fascinating telling of a modern nightmare. Sounds like sci-fi, but this is real. ...
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MacDeth!
bill ratner
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June 18, 2016
certified reviewer
A bardish hoot that both Rupaul and Sean Connery would love....
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The Old Woman
bill ratner
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June 15, 2016
certified reviewer
Master storyteller John Grady goes way beyond what you'd expect from a solo hour. A brilliant meditation on dogs, snakes, aging, and losing your mind. I laughed, didn't even try to hide my tears, and was deeply touched. ...
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