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Review: "UNSEX'd" Asks If Shakespeare's Boy Players Are More than Just Pretty Faces
The playful use of bardcore covers of contemporary songs in scene transitions encapsulates both the era-bending sense of humor in Jay Whitehead and Daniel Judes's Renaissance-set UNSEX'd and the continuities in the issues that the play raises between the early modern period and our own. In commercial theater in Shakespearean England, public self-exhibition onstage was frowned upon for women, so female roles were played by boys or young men, and UNSEX'd, with psychological acuity and enough bawdy humor to make the Bard proud, irresistibly draws us into the and rivalry between two such specialists in female characters in Shakespeare's own company. In its run at UNDER St. Marks, UNSEX'd is making its U.S. premiere as part of FRIGID New York's 5th Annual Little Shakespeare Festival.
Review: UNSEX'd At Frigid NYC's Little Shakespeare Festival
From the raucous and rebellious minds of Daniel Judes and Jay Whitehead comes UNSEX’d—a gleefully irreverent, gorgeously crafted, and intellectually nimble play that struts into the limelight not merely as a clever footnote to Shakespearean lore, but as a bold and blazingly contemporary reclamation of the Bard’s legacy. Making its U.S. premiere at FRIGID New York’s delightfully subversive Little Shakespeare Festival, UNSEX’d is at once a heady theatrical treatise and a saucy backstage comedy, an Elizabethan fever dream in drag, doused in glamour and nasty ambition.
UNSEX'D to Make U.S. Premiere at Little Shakespeare Festival This August
JB Theatricals will present the U.S. premiere of UNSEX’D, a bawdy and irreverent new satire set in the world of Shakespearean boy-players, as part of The Little Shakespeare Festival at Under St. Marks Theater. Directed by Josh Bradley, the Equity-approved showcase will run for five performances from August 2–17
Podcast: Stage Whisperer with Andrew Cortes & Hope Bird; Episode 1097, Whisper in the Wings
For the latest Whisper in the Wings from Stage Whisper, we welcomed on several of the artists participating in this year’s 2025 Little Shakespeare Festival being presented by Frigid NYC. Be sure that you don’t miss out on not only this great conversation but this fantastic event!
Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ from Relevant Theatrics Theatre Company
I took in Waiting for Godot, presented by Relevant Theatrics, last night and there was a very small audience — a shame as this is a tight little production of the absurdist comedy. In the lead roles of Vladimir and Estragon, Alan Sincic and Brett Carson make a crack comic team along the lines of Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello. They made me think of Cirque du Soleil clowns — if Cirque clowns spoke in quick, sharp, pitter-patter dialogue. Their easy rapport at one point had me musing on the whole play as nothing more than a metaphor for co-dependent relationships
Review: Beckett's Absurdist Classic Is Brought to the Stage in Orlando
Ah, the absurdity of attempting an educated review of a theater of the absurd classic like "Waiting for Godot." You see, if you have never seen a Samuel Beckett piece, particularly this one, nothing I say will do it justice. And if you have seen it before, nothing I write will match what your own imagination and interpretation has created.
Review: Milwaukee Rep Interns Show Why They Were Tapped for Prestigious Internship
Often, unacknowledged dreams of forging a new language loom large in the evening's best two plays. In Neil LaBute's "Land of the Dead" (directed by Josh Bradley), Graves and Alexander Pawlowski IV - both impressive, throughout the evening - play characters remembering a climactic day illustrating all that's wrong in their frayed relationship, while giving glimpses of the love that remains. Pawlowski plays a working-class boy made good in a brokerage firm, where he is just as crude as the other guys.