FringeNYC: Gotham Radio Theater’s The Awful Truth – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Before television, radio shows were the most popular form of evening entertainment. In Gotham Radio Theater’s The Awful Truth at the FringeNYC, the theater’s audience is the studio audience at one such radio show. The stage looks like a classic sound stage, with old fashioned microphones and noisemaking devices.
The show itself is about marital disputes and distrust. Each of the five actors onstage make different voices and one even acts as a dog. The audience provides a lively laugh track to the dramatic dialogue and funny situations. The show is charming, there’s little not to like about it.
LOCATION
Connelly Theater
220 East 4th Street
RUNNING TIME
1 hour 15 minutes, no intermission
TICKETS
$15 in advance, $18 at the door (click here for tickets)
DATES
Sunday 8/18, 2:15pm
Tuesday 8/20, 7:00pm
Thursday 8/22, 2:30pm
REVIEWS
NY Theatre
Gotham Radio Theatre, under the direction of Sydnie Grosberg Ronga, have done their best to streamline predictable plot elements. I found the onstage antics as the actors quickly switch roles very diverting.
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Directed and Adapted for radio by Sydnie Gale
Featuring Irene Dahlia, Lillian Darling, Claxton Beauregard Jackson VI, Charles Napier