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Even those who've known actress/comedienne Mary Dimino personally or professionally for two decades (or even longer), can't help but feel as though they are at long last staring directly into the recesses of her marvelous mind, with her presentation of her one-woman show Scared Skinny, part of the New York Fringe Festival at Tom Noonan's Paradise Theatre on East 4th Street.

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By the mid-1990s, when she decided she was here in to stay in the Big Apple, Texas native Faye Lane had already begun grabbing any and all audience possible as an actress, singer, poetess, storyteller and all-around really nice person, with a brilliant mix of sophistication and a down-home quality that proved her as sincerely sweet as a strawberry pie.

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Seemingly, most of us are familiar with John Knowles’ classic novel, since it is required reading in most middle schools in this country. It concerns the friendship of two young men during Summer and Winter terms at the Devon School, a fictional New Hampshire academy (Knowles’ thinly veiled alma mater, Phillips Exeter) in 1942. The two are as different as can be; one studious and serious, the other athletic and carefree. They are tightly drawn to each other, perhaps in many respects due to their vastly contrasting qualities. This bond grows to become thrilling, confusing and eventually tragic as events play out.

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We all get those invites from our pals to witness their various musical and/or theatrical endeavors, and despite the best of intentions, quite often we’re left wracking our brains figuring out the kindest thing to say afterwards, if indeed there is anything to say at all! So it’s always a thrill and a welcome treat when such obligations turn out to be not only palatable, but enjoyable beyond your wildest expectations.

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This year's annual Fresh Fruit Festival, which delivers a cornucopia of theatrical offerings at the Cherry Lane Theatre, was regrettably plagued at the outset with bad news, namely the untimely death of festival founder Harry Weider. A "little person" (aka dwarf) who also happened to be a lifelong champion of causes for both the LGBT and Jewish communities, besides a thespian known far and wide for his tremendous command of the stage and screen, as well as unending charisma. Weider met his premature end in mid-spring at he age of fifty-nine, when he was struck by a moving taxi on a street in the East Village.

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Questions regarding Abraham Lincoln’s sexual preferences have been the topic of numerous writings, most notably C.A. Tripp, a sex researcher and protégé of Alfred Kinsey, whose book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln was posthumously published in 2005. The speculation stems from Carl Sandburg’s biography of Lincoln in 1926, and an early relationship of Lincoln and his friend Joshua Fry Speed as having "a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets."

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When you’re a 16 year old exceptionally verbal, bright theatre kid, the world is your oyster. . .or so it seemed for Andy Lipman (Noah Robbins). His idol is a sought after Broadway Tony Award-winning director, writer (on the order of Harold Prince perhaps) named Martin Kerner (John Glover). Spurred on by his mom Joanne (Amy Aquino), and dad Peter (Mark Nelson),

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This is the 11th Season of the Midtown International Theatre Festival, which chooses and encourages theatre of all racial and sexual stripes; plays and musicals of all genres focused on an ethnic or cultural niche. The festival is the brainchild of John Chatterton, publisher and editor of OOBR (the off-off-broadway review). While the word "eclectic" has bad connotations in the academic world, it describes the artistic thrust.