Hy on the Fringe: Your Personal Guide to the
2014 New York International Fringe Festival
This Ratings & Rankings Page Was Most Recently Updated: October 6th 2014
FringeNYC 2014 Show Ratings & Rankings
This section lists the FringeNYC 2014 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.
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 four shows in the festival a **** rating. (Naysayers notwithstanding, FringeNYC continues to get better every year...)
All that said, what follows are the 69 FringeNYC 2014 shows I've seen to date from beginning to end:
Absolutely Filthy ****
Gary Busey's One Man Hamlet (As Performed by David Carl) ****
Fatty Fatty No Friends ****
Awkward Romance: The Third Evening ****
The Imbible: A Spirited History of Drinking ***½
Kunstler ***½
The Pawnbroker: Lies, Lovers, and Bertolt Brecht ***½
Fearless ***½
<50% ***½
Coffee and Biscuit ***½
Magical Negro Speaks ***½
Stone Cold Fox: The Best from 75 Years of SCF ***½
Chemistry ***½
Don't Panic: It's Only Finnegan's Wake (8/14 show) ***½
Don't Panic: It's Only Finnegan's Wake (8/15 show) ***½
Twelfth Night ***½
Switch Back ***½
Breaking the Shakespeare Code ***
Tales From Geriassic Park ***
One Woman Gone Wrong ***
The Warrior and the Princess ***
No Static At All ***
Hoaxocaust! ***
Jump Man ***
2014, When We Were Idiots (A Comedy Walking Tour) ***
Smile ***
Anthem ***
Lizzie Borden Took An Axe ***
Circus Circus ***
Murder, Margaret and Me ***
A Thousand Deaths ***
Isis Variations ***
No One Asked Me **½
The Mormon Bird Play **½
I'll Say She Is **½
King of Kong: A Musical Parody **½
Coming: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions **½
Soga Shohaku **½
The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen **½
Little Mother **½
Empty House **½
Jackass Flats **½
Vestments of the Gods **½
Sick City Blues **½
Mother's Day **½
Bubba **½
Urban Momfare **
Warm Enough for Swimming **
Held Momentarily **
Sex, Lies, and Earl Grey **
Moses, the Author **
Things I Left On Long Island **
Waiting for Orson **
The Apple Tree, or Penis no. 7 **
Burbage: The Man Who Made Shakespeare Famous *½
Clive Barker's History of the Devil *½
Confessions of Old Lady #2 *½
April's Fool *½
Your Radio Adventure! *½
The Flood *½
Interview *½
The Internet!: A Complete History (Abridged) *
For my reviews of these FringeNYC 2014 shows, please click any underlined title above, or click here.
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