New York International Fringe Festival—Gay offerings
The annual Fringe fest always has a healthy number of queer shows. Here's this year's LGBT options.
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Photograph: Phillip Fazio
The Cast of Gay Camp
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Photograph: Anne Petersen
The cast of 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche
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Photograph: Brian Camarao
Standby—The Musical
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Photograph: Lynn Farley
Tara Grammy in Mahmoud
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Photographe: Rick Simone
Jonathan Gibson and Joe Briggs in Pieces
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Photograph: Christine Drew Benjamin
Lauren Weinberg and Sally Burtenshaw in Cause of Failure
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The cast of Dogs
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Photograph: Gary Weingarten
Elizabeth Claire Taylor in Finding Elizabeth Taylor
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Photograph: Ari Scott
Rebecca White and Laura Siner in Hadrian's Wall
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Photograph: Liz Payne
Carolyn Myers and Terry Baum in A Coupla Crackpot Crones
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Photograph: Theo Therday
Michelle Robin Anderson in Hope is the Saddest
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Photograph: Bogdan Grodski
D'yan Forest in I Married a Nun
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Photograph: Liz Liquori
Sally Sockwell in In Heat: Is She Hot Under Her Collar or Under Her Skirt?
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Photograph: Libby Tatum
Monica Jones and Alex Haynes in Or What She Will
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Photograph: Our Lady
James Fluhr in Our Lady
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Photograph: Emma Mahood
Emma Dean and Jake Diefenbach in An End to Dreaming
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Photograph: Justin Barbin
Joe McManus and Ben Barker in Pink Milk
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Photograph: Matthew Brian Denman
Vincent James Arcuri in Becoming Butch
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Photograph: Chadwick Elliott
Munoz and Aaron Munoz in Two Households, Two Assholes
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Photograph: Robert A.Terrano
Patrick Martin and Dan Johnson in Alice and The Bunny Hole
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The cast of Antigone Unearthed
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Photograph: Susan Lambert
Sean Galuszka and Chris Sams in Poison Apple
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Photograph: Jennifer E. Koltun
Ryan Kipp in Redlight
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Photograph: Rob Strong
Courtney Davis and Amanda Jones in The Reluctant Lesbian
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Photograph: Dixie Sheridan
Jeff Seabaugh in We Crazy, Right?
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Photograph: Thom Kaine
Mo Rocca, Rachel Dratch and Sean Dugan in Tail! Spin!
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Photograph: Elizabeth Griffin
Thao P. Nguyen in Fortunate Daughter
Seeing a show in the New York International Fringe Festival is always a roll of the dice. Will you catch the next Triassic Parq or Silence: The Musical? Or will it be more like the next "damn, I wish I had those 90 minutes back" moment of your life? For those limiting this year's Fringe gamble to gay-friendly shows, all of your very queer choices are contained below.
Gay Fringe Encores shows
Mahmoud
- Rated as: 4/5
- Huron Club 15 Vandam St, between Sixth Ave and Varick St
- Sat Sep 29 - Sun Sep 30
Pieces
- Rated as: 4/5
- SoHo Playhouse 15 Vandam St, between Sixth Ave and Varick St
- Until Mon Sep 17
Standby—The Musical
- Rated as: 4/5
- Players Theatre 115 MacDougal St, at Minetta Ln
- Until Sat Sep 29
- Players Theatre 115 MacDougal St, at Minetta Ln
- Sat Sep 22 - Fri Sep 21
- Huron Club 15 Vandam St, between Sixth Ave and Varick St
- Until Sat Dec 29
Reviews of 2012 gay Fringe Festival shows
Alice & The Bunny Hole
- Rated as: 3/5
- Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa 74A E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave
- Until Fri Aug 24
Cause of Failure
- Rated as: 3/5
- Kraine Theater 85 E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave, 10003
- Until Fri Aug 24
Dogs: A Biting Comedy
- Rated as: 2/5
- New Ohio Theatre 154 Christopher St, between Greenwich and Washington Sts
- Until Fri Aug 24
An End to Dreaming
- Rated as: 2/5
- Robert Moss Theater (at 440 Studios) 440 Lafayette St, between Astor Pl and E 4th St
- Until Sat Aug 25
Hadrian's Wall
- Rated as: 3/5
- Connelly Theater 220 E 4th St, between Aves A and B
- Until Sun Aug 19
Hope is the saddest
- Rated as: 3/5
- La MaMa E.T.C. 66 E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave
- Until Fri Aug 24
I Married A Nun
- Rated as: 3/5
- Gene Frankel Theatre 24 Bond St, between Bowery and Lafayette St
- Until Tue Aug 21
June and Nancy
- Rated as: 4/5
- Kraine Theater 85 E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave, 10003
- Until Sun Aug 26
Our Lady
- Rated as: 4/5
- Living Theatre 19–21 Clinton St, between E Houston and Stanton Sts
- Until Sat Aug 25
Poison Apple
- Rated as: 2/5
- Connelly Theater 220 E 4th St, between Aves A and B
- Until Sun Aug 19
Tail! Spin!
- Rated as: 4/5
- Kraine Theater 85 E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave, 10003
- Until Thu Aug 16
2 Households, 2 Assholes: Shakespeare's R & J
- Rated as: 3/5
- SoHo Playhouse 15 Vandam St, between Sixth Ave and Varick St
- Until Sun Aug 19
- Kraine Theater 85 E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave, 10003
- Until Tue Aug 21
We Crazy, Right?
- Rated as: 3/5
- Jimmy’s No. 43 43 E 7th St, between Second and Third Aves
- Until Sat Aug 25
Would
- Rated as: 4/5
- New Ohio Theatre 154 Christopher St, between Greenwich and Washington Sts
- Until Sat Aug 25
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