Benjamin Nicholson

Batter Up! felt more like a conversation with a friend than a theatrical production, and I mean this in the best possible way. Brett's love for baseball makes listening to a chronological listing of all the teams that lost in the World Series both endearing and something to root for; seeing Brett dig back through his years of baseball knowledge to triumphantly retrieve and share is both a remarkable feat of investment but also engrossing to observe. Even if you don't love baseball, this show give... full review

Tobincon; Tonbinconfidence man; Tobinconfession; Tobinconspiracy; Tobinconstitution; Tobincongratulations on a terrifc show.... full review

Bob sharing his life in an earnest and direct manner was both fascinating and endearing; he's led such an interesting life and made so many unique relationships with artists of all kinds. For someone who is so invested in the Fringe community, it was wonderful to get a better sense of who he is and where he comes from.... full review

In revealing the earnestness beneath the apparent absurdity of two highly disparaged pop culture communities (fan fiction and goth 'culture'), 'Sunbathe in Darkness' is able to both lampoon and elevate its subject matter, using the desire to laugh as a way to disarm the audience while delivering a powerful and contrasting moment of trauma.... full review

A Black Mirror-esque moral quandary that makes you wonder about the consequences of all the buttons you push on a daily basis.... full review

By the end, I was seriously considering getting on the armored bus waiting outside. Matthew and his team were so frighteningly persuasive that, if they don't actually intend to sell Life Plan, they should quit their current jobs and work together to sell SOMETHING; they would generate a lot of revenue (and, given the subtle philosophical arguments being made in the show, might know how to use it to avoid our totalitarian fate).... full review

An extremely thoughtful and well-designed adaptation of Tennyson's "Maud", director Parker Huseby and performer Reed Michael Campbell pull off a compelling rendering of psychology and, possibly, psychopathy. ... full review

Joy and her cast use every second of this well-designed play to its fullest, bringing levity to an issue that is fraught with pain, irony, and, of course, familial love.... full review

An ambitious and thoughtful address to contemporary issues concerning gender and patriarchal supremacy, Libby touches on the tremendous frustration women experience in an interesting vignette format.... full review

Doug is somehow able to perform time travel in real-time; I don't really know how to describe it other than to say that his performance is brilliant, that each character he portrays somehow occupies their own distinct time and space within the same body, and that Doug is a very sweet caveman that had the audience's sympathies throughout the entirety of his tumultuous courtship with Grogina.... full review