Duncan Pflaster is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced all over. He also has been known to direct, write music, play the ukulele, and (if his arm is twisted) act. He won second place in the 2009 Stage and Cinema's New York City Theater Review Contest. www.duncanpflaster.com
 BWW Reviews: Fringe - BANSHEE OF BAINBRIDGE, Pixie Driver
August 19, 2010
Jim Tierney's new play 'Banshee of Bainbridge' is a disturbing play about racial tensions in the 1980s Bronx, as seen through the eyes of a confused and naive Irish-American man abandoned in a world changing too quickly for him.
 BWW Rewviews: Fringe: Viva Los Bastarditos! - The Power of Rock
August 16, 2010
Jake Oliver's new musical comedy 'Viva Los Bastarditos!' is an hilarious romp that references everything from Zorro to Scooby-Doo, with a tongue-in-cheek witty style.
 BWW Reviews: BASS FOR PICASSO - Something Fishy
May 2, 2010
Theater Breaking Through Barriers produces Kate Moira Ryan's nearly-funny comedy 'Bass For Picasso', featuring the company's traditional blend of differently-abled actors.
 BWW Reviews: TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEBOWSKI - Ye Dude Abideth
March 24, 2010
DMTheatrics' American Shakespeare Factory presents the theatrical premiere of 'Two Gentlemen of Lebowski', Adam Bertocci's viral internet parody of 'The Big Lebowski', as writ in the style of William Shakespeare.
 BWW Reviews: +30NYC: Dystopia, Ltd.
March 7, 2010
The Red Fern Theatre Company presents seven new plays imagining the New York of 30 years from now with angst and wit.
 BWW Reviews: DADDY: Don't Let Your Son Go Down on Me
February 5, 2010
Dan Via's great new play 'Daddy' delves into the issues surrounding May/December Gay relationships with wit and style.
 BWW Reviews: DARK RAPTURE, Fete Noir
January 29, 2010
The Attic Theater Company presents a lackluster production of Eric Overmyer's modern noir 'Dark Rapture'.
 BWW Reviews: TEASER COW: Burger Kingdom Come
January 17, 2010
Clay McLeod Chapman's new play 'teaser cow' mixes the myth of the Minotaur with 'Fast Food Nation' to create a viscerally thrilling piece of work.
 BWW REVIEWS: SCROOGE AND MARLEY - More of Gravy than the Grave
December 21, 2009
Barefoot Theatre Company presents 'A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley', an adaptation of the Dickens novel by Israel Horovitz, in a cartoonish and lackluster production.
 Bail Out The Musical: Sell Out, Louise!
December 14, 2009
Wreckio Ensemble's new play 'Bail Out: The Musical' is a clever piece about theatre artists and compromising one's ideals.
 The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever!: Oh Mary.
December 1, 2009
Alternative Theatre Company presents Joe Marshall's 'The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever!', a tepid comedy about a struggling West Hollywood LGBT Theatre putting on a Christmas show.
 REVIEW: The Late Christopher Bean: Is He Dead?
December 1, 2009
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) delivers yet another neglected gem from theatre's past: 'The Late Christopher Bean', a delightful farce from 1932.
 Such Things Only Happen in Books: Angels & Humans
November 14, 2009
The Keen Company delivers a finely nuanced production of five Thornton Wilder short plays, which show the playwright's concern with matters spiritual and secular.
 PENANG: Privates War
November 9, 2009
James L. Larocca's 'Penang', presented by BOO-Arts, is an over-long examination of the friendship of two men during the Vietnam war.
Such Things Only Happen in Books: Angels & Humans
October 23, 2009
The Keen Company delivers a finely nuanced production of five Thornton Wilder short plays, which show the playwright's concern with matters spiritual and secular.
 NYMF: F#@king Up Everything
October 8, 2009
A charming love story with a conspicuously crass title, David Eric Davis and Sam Forman's 'F#@cking Up Everything' is a delightful indie-rock musical.
 NYMF: Max Understood: The State of the Autistic
October 4, 2009
Nancy Carlin and Michael Rasbury's musical "Max Understood" is quite unlike most musical theatre fare: an imagined trip into the mind of an autistic child, through new-age music and sampled sounds.
 Killers and Other Family: Remembrance of Things Sociopath
September 27, 2009
In Lucy Thurber's ostentatiously searing play 'Killers and Other Family', a young woman trying to escape her past is confronted by her brother and a man with whom she's had a complicated relationship.
 Sex Ed: Bizarre Love Triangle
September 22, 2009
Suzanne Bachner?s gripping comic drama Sex Ed examines the lives of students and cluelessness of teachers in a private school, as three performers play the teachers and the students.
 LOL: On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog.
September 22, 2009
The revival of Tony Sportiello's dark Internet comedy 'LOL' at his Algonquin Theater has a talented and funny cast.
 The Big Gay Musical: Children of Eden
September 18, 2009
'The Big Gay Musical', a movie by Fred M. Caruso, is an innocuous romp through a musicalized Eden and an idealized New York.
 FATHERS & SONS: 12 Characters in Search of a Father
September 18, 2009
Richard Hoehler's new play 'Fathers & Sons' is a tour-de-force for two actors who play variations on paternal relationships.
 MilkMilkLemonade: To Be Young, Gifted, and Queer
September 14, 2009
Joshua Conkel's brilliant new play 'MilkMilkLemonade' is the hilariously absurd and moving tale of a young boy growing up Gay and artistic in a world that values neither.
 Fringe: Eat, Drink & be Merry: The Skin of Our Teeth
August 25, 2009
Paul Schultz's new musical 'Eat, Drink & be Merry' is a confused revue of skits following Adam and Eve through centuries of food.
 Fringe: Candide Americana: Optimism
August 23, 2009
Rabbit Hole Ensemble presents Stanton Wood?s Candide Americana, a brilliant new adaptation of Voltaire?s classic, which drops the optimistic hero amid the most recent American disasters.
 Fringe: Look After You: Focus on the Positive
August 23, 2009
In Louise Flory's 'Look After You', part of the 2009 FringeNYC, a photographer with a brain aneurysm has conflicts with her family while struggling with the loss of her short-term memory.
 Fringe: His Greatness: The Glass Menage A Trois
August 23, 2009
Daniel MacIvor's new play 'His Greatness' (according to the program, 'Inspired by a potentially true story about playwright Tennessee Williams'), is a funny and touching play about fading glory and addiction to fame and other narcotics.
 Summer Shorts 3: Series B
August 14, 2009
J.J. Kandel and John McCormack present 'Summer Shorts 3: Series B', the latest in their annual festival of new short American plays, with a group of plays wildly diverse in both type and quality.
 Mrs. Warren's Profession: I've Got the Whores Right Here
April 15, 2009
BOO-Arts presents a lively production of George Bernard Shaw's classic 'Mrs. Warren's Profession' at Manhattan Theatre Source.
 Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
April 14, 2009
Shotgun Players present 'Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage', a Banana Bag and Bodice Songplay, a meta-Brechtian Weill-rock experience.
 Belles: Does Anyone Still Use A Service?
April 2, 2009
Heiress Productions presents Mark Dunn's 'Belles: a play in two acts and forty-five phone calls', about 6 sisters from Texas who keep in touch by phone.
 Incident at Vichy: A Coarse Line
March 17, 2009
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) presents the first New York revival of Arthur Miller's 'Incident at Vichy' in 25 years.
 Rooftops: The Plot Chickens
March 13, 2009
Wreckio Ensemble presents 'Rooftops', a fascinating new play by Karly Maurer, set in a dystopic future where debtors are forced into sexual slavery.
 Tartuffe: But for the Grace of Dog
March 9, 2009
Dog Run Rep presents Jeff Cohen's adaptation of Moliere's Classic 'Tartuffe', updating the setting to 1930s Depression-Era New York.
 The Chiselers: You Don't Have To Watch Dynasty
March 9, 2009
Mark Finley's hilarious new play 'The Chiselers' is an homage to campy soap opera heroines. Presented by Emerging Artists Theater as part of its Spring 2009 EATfest.
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