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10 Best New York Theater Productions of 2024

The Wrap 26 Dec 2024
Credit. Emilio Madrid. 10. “Swept Away” on Broadway ... John Gallagher Jr ... Charles Ludlam’s the Ridiculous Theatrical Company lives on in playwright Cole Escola, who also plays Mary Todd Lincoln, a chronic drunk who wants to be a cabaret singer ... .
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Top Broadway shows to see this fall for a fun week in New York

Herald-Tribune Sarasota 30 Nov 2024
Broadway Preview. A look at the musical 'Death Becomes Her' ... 225 W. 44th St., New York ... It’s silly and as over the top as you might expect from that brief description, and a show that grows out of the tradition of Charles Ludlam and Charles Busch ... 19.
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Old Globe turns ‘Dracula’ horror story into a contemporary, comic vampire tale

San Diego Union-Tribune 20 Sep 2024
And then artists like Charles Ludlam and ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep’ and how there’s a camp quality to that style of theater.”.
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Island City Stage's "Die, Mommie, Die!" Is a Queer Gem

Miami New Times 05 Sep 2024
... from, the era of the Theatre of the Ridiculous; certainly, Island City and Rogow's staging of Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep years ago is proof that they're great at this brand of play.
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The Art of Artifice

LA Weekly 29 Jul 2024
If Madame Ranevskaya were a man in drag, and Srdjan Popovic's sound design included an organ instead of a violin quartet, we'd be on Charles Ludlam's turf – more on him later ... BY CHARLES LUDLAM.
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The Low Life

LA Weekly 29 Jul 2024
Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979” (up through May 10) ... ... No wonder actors TONY ABATEMARCO and JOHN FLECK have been losing weight during their run of Charles Ludlam's fun-tabulous farce The Mystery of Irma Vep at the Tiffany Theater.
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Review | Cole Escola’s ‘Oh, Mary!’ is perfect summer camp for adults

AM New York 14 Jul 2024
Five years ago, when the theme of the 2019 Met Gala was “Camp ... In other words, it is camp, building on the work of earlier drag comics including Charles Ludlam and Charles Busch while injecting a heavy dose of brash, dark contemporary humor ... 15 ....
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‘Oh, Mary!’ Broadway Review: A New Star Moves Uptown to Wow the Masses

The Wrap 12 Jul 2024
“Oh, Mary!” opened Thursday at the Lyceum Theatre after a successful run Off Broadway, and Cole Escola, the show’s author and star, achieves what such crossdressing trailblazers as Charles Ludlam and Charles Busch were never allowed to do.
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‘Oh, Mary!’ Is a Splendidly Nasty Farce You Will Not Want to Miss

New York Observer 12 Jul 2024
Conrad Ricamora and Cole Escola in Oh, Mary! Emilio Madrid ... Sign Up ... Standing with one foot on Charles Ludlam’s shoulder, the other on Charles Busch’s, Escola channels their own brand of female energy that balances drag with something weirder and punk.
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‘Oh, Mary!’ Theater Review: Comedy Genius Cole Escola Serves Revisionist American History as Riotous Queer Silliness

The Hollywood Reporter 12 Jul 2024
Minus the intelligence ... With who?Abraham ... Leigh and Macht, cleverly double-cast, also fit right into a tight-knit, loony ensemble that honors a rich tradition of gleefully over-the-top alternative New York theater, from Charles Ludlam to Charles Busch.
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‘Oh, Mary!’ review: Wild West Wing comedy is the funniest show in town

New York Post 09 Feb 2024
Theater review. One hour and 15 minutes with no intermission ... 3 ... 3 ... the show, indeed, shares the sensibility of the plays of Charles Busch (“Vampire Lesbians of Sodom” and the upcoming “Ibsen’s Ghost”) and Charles Ludlam (“The Mystery of Irma Vep”) ... ....
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Drag dance in Austin? Ballets Trockadero has been en pointe and in tutus for 50 years

Austin American-Statesman 17 Jan 2024
Transgressive? Not always ... Conceptually, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo grew out of the parodic magic of actor, playwright and director Charles Ludlam's tiny Ridiculous Theater Company, which burlesqued a wide range of performance genres ... When.
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Bargain Hunt

The Daily Mail 10 Jan 2024
Bargain Hunt auctioneer Charles Hanson today pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and coercive behaviour against his wife ... Charles Hanson with his wife Rebecca Ludlam and one of their children at their family home.
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Remembering those we lost in 2023

Washington Blade 29 Dec 2023
Everett Quinton, an actor, director, and leader of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company after his partner Charles Ludlam’s death in 1987, died on Jan ... Charles Silverstein, a psychologist, whose ...
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Who is Charles Hanson

The Daily Mail 21 Dec 2023
Charles Hanson has been charged with assault and coercive behaviour following a police investigation into domestic abuse allegations (pictured) ... Who is Charles Hanson's wife, Rebecca Ludlam? ... Do Charles Hanson and Rebecca Ludlam have children?.

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