Bill Ratner

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! ... full review

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... full review

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, ... full review

20th Century Fox could attract people back to the cinemas if Fuck Tinder were their big summer release!!... full review

Think Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, with a smidgen of Michael Moore and Viola Spolin thrown in.... full review

The sexiest, most intelligent show in the Fringe!... full review

Energetic, frenetic, super callifragilistic expialidoshus!... full review

An absolutely fascinating telling of a modern nightmare. Sounds like sci-fi, but this is real. ... full review

A bardish hoot that both Rupaul and Sean Connery would love.... full review

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. ... full review