Hy on the Fringe: Your Personal Guide to the
2015 New York International Fringe Festival
This Ratings & Rankings Page Was Most Recently Updated: October 18th 2015
FringeNYC 2015 Show Ratings & Rankings
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This section lists the FringeNYC 2015 shows I've seen from beginning to end. (Shows that I walk out of mid-stream—typically to avoid tearing my head off—aren't mentioned.)
The shows are listed in rough order of personal preference, with each production assigned one to four stars using the following rating system:
**** = Transcendently Great
*** = Solid & Worth Seeing
** = Unless Your Relatives Are in the Cast, Think Twice
* = "I Wanted to Kill Myself"
If a title is underlined, you can click it to jump to my review.
If a title isn't underlined, I haven't yet written up the show. I won't review every production seen, but will strive to review as many as possible in the time available. (And you can get a feel for how I determine ratings & rankings by reading my reviews of other shows.)
I'll be updating the list every single day, so please make a habit of checking this page frequently.
Please also note that I very seldom rate a show four stars. Last year was the first in which I've ever given six shows in the festival a **** rating. (Naysayers notwithstanding, FringeNYC continues to get better every year...)
All that said, what follows are the 69 FringeNYC 2015 shows I've seen to date from beginning to end:
Your Love, Our Musical (8/14) ****
Your Love, Our Musical (9/28) ****
Being Seen ****
Maybe Tomorrow ****
Divine/Intervention ****
Princess Cut: A Young Girl's Reality Inside a Tennessee Sex Ring ****
Verano Place ****
The Portable Dorothy Parker ****
Your Love, Our Musical (8/22) ****
The Report ***½
Popesical: A Papal Musical Comedy ***½
The Curious Case of Phineas Gage ***½
Jellybean ***½
Type What Now ***½
The Submarine Show ***½
Diaghilesque! ***½
Gahou International: Sunrise ***½
The Magic Jukebox ***½
Lucky Chick ***½
The Broccoli Murder, the DiCaprio Dance, and Other Stories From My 20 Years as an NYC Cop ***½
She-Rantulas From Outer Space...in 3D! ***½
Tiananmen Annie ***
CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) ***
Ripple of Hope: One Teacher's Journey to Make an Impact ***
Yesterday Was Beautiful ***
Possum Creek ***
Plath. A New Musical ***
Feelings: Because Why Pretend the Show is About Anything Else? ***
Far From Canterbury ***
Loose Canon ***
Waiting for AAA ***
Stockholm Savings ***
The Screenwriter Dies Of His Own Free Will **½
Summer Blue **½
This Side of the Impossible **½
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again **½
Joker **½
The Commedia Rapunzel **½
Solina **½
Hell Is For Real **½
Elaine Stritch: Still Here **½
Van Gogh Fuck Yourself **½
EverScape **½
America's Next Top **½
Dex!: A Killer Musical **½
Love is Like Mud **½
Fail Better: Beckett Moves UNO **½
Dungeon **½
The Wreck of the Spanish Armada **½
Night with Guests **
#OUCH! An Accidental Comedy **
An Inconvenient Poop **
Serial: The Parody **
Small Membership **
Hick: A Love Story **
The Stella **
The Weird Tree **
The Comedienne Project *½
I Want To Kill Lena Dunham *½
The Buffalo *½
A Spot on the Wall *½
Under *
Kill Sister, Kill! A Musical *
The American Play *
For my reviews of these FringeNYC 2015 shows, please click any underlined title above, or click here.
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