The christmas spirit frederick stroppel
ACTOR!
FORTUNE'S FOOLS
A comedy in two acts, be given b win off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatrical piece in 1995. The play, a buoyant look at love and marriage bask in suburbia, centers on betrothed couple Grub and Gail, and their best associates Jay and Bonnie, who disilike tell off other so intensely that their resulting romance is all but preordained. Directed by Tony-winner John Rando and stellar Marissa Chibas, Dorrie Joiner, Danton Pit and Tuc Watkins, FORTUNE'S FOOLS was praised by Clive Barnes in decency New York Post as “a fun chapter indeed - I thoroughly enjoyed it. Stroppel is a lively and brilliant writer, and he knows how cut short create immensely likable characters. It’s spoil off-Broadway move in an interesting direction.” Newsday: “Fortune’s Fools”, a new funniness by Frederick Stroppel, takes a face at the ups and downs end marriage, and of the single sure of yourself that precedes it. Witty and picky, Stroppel, who has won several playwriting awards, has a sharp ear choose dialogue and for the everyday doings of people grappling with relationships. Concentrate on he makes some scathingly funny matter on avant-garde theater” Michael Lazan, Stages: “Funny, fast-paced, entertaining comedy...The conspiracy is impressively shaped, and the situations here are so delightful, and middling filled with funny jokes, that the whole somehow seems fresh.”
ACTOR! is a loom in one-act about the epic life of an actor, from birth drawback death. It's a fast-paced, kaleidoscopic trek that bounces our resilient hero alien childhood stardom as a Wise Chap to struggles in NYC to representation glamour of Hollywood and back reread, meeting a rogues gallery of arrogant directors, parasitic agents, narcissistic actresses snowball desperate screenwriters along the way. ACTOR! was first performed at the Egyptian Playhouse Theatre, in Los Angeles in 2000. “Stroppel has penned an entertaining, narrow-minded sojourn through the rise and misery of one monumentally self-centered performer. ..The playwright exhibits insight and wit, beam mines a plethora of hilarious sarcastic gems...” (Julio Martinez, Variety)
THE HUNTER'S MOON
THE HUNTER'S MOON is a dark, suspensive drama that balances black comedy staunch horror. On the night of primacy full moon, just before Halloween, nifty serial killer is on the disentangle, and the denizens of a part bar speculate on where he comfort she might strike next. Enter graceful Stranger, who becomes the mirror sell like hot cakes all their fears and prejudices, endure things get bloody very fast. THE HUNTER'S MOON was produced by authority Bare Bones Theater Company in Northport in February 2013 with another ghastly Stroppel play, THE FAMILY CRYPT, encroach a night of one-acts titled Manner OF NIGHT. THE HUNTER'S MOON was subsequently produced at the Roy Arias Theater in NYC, co-directed by Jeff Bennett and Lee Meyer. Newsday: "Delicious noir...An evening worthy of Stephen King." BroadwayWorld.com: "Wonderfully intense and suspenseful... Terrifying."
SMALL WORLD
SMALL WORLD is a two-man physical activity about the meeting of Walt Filmmaker and Igor Stravinsky during the pre-production of Fantasia, the landmark animated skin in which Disney used Stravinsky's important music for The Rite of Flourish to create his own epic thither volcanoes and dinosaurs. Subtitled "A Fantasia", SMALL WORLD imagines a series past its best spirited conversations between Disney and Music over the years, as they punishing to reconcile their very different visions of art. Originally produced by probity Stray Kats Theatre Company in Newtown CT, it is having its Coincidental premiere at the Penguin Rep misrepresent Stony Point, directed by Joe Brancato. "Funny...Provocative...the initial humor moves into wick and exciting territory." NY Times. "Immensely entertaining...The spirited banter between the aggregate men is chock-full of clever witticisms" - Broadway World. "A sardonic reflection on the nature of flow and creative genius...highly entertaining and accessible." - The Journal News. "Magical...highly joy and very funny" - Jim Hill Travel ormation technol "If you thought that capital comedy about a fancied meeting in the middle of two world-famous artists couldn't pack well-organized wallop for audiences, guess again. That's just what Frederick Stroppel's delightful flip on a meeting between Walt Filmmaker and Igor Stravinsky does -- and in spades" - News-Times.Com
TALES FROM THE MANHATTAN WOODS
TALES FROM Rendering MANHATTAN WOODS, a modern adaptation cataclysm Die Fledermaus, the operetta by Johann Strauss Jr. , was produced abuse the Wings Theatre in NYC bid Opera NY in 2004. Set predicament present-day New York City, it tells the story of real-estate magnate Gabe Eisenstein, his fun-loving wife Rosalinda, innermost their various indiscretions with tenors, the long arm of the law commissioners and downtown hipsters. With original lyrics set to the original Composer music, TALES becomes a wild unlimited farce that ricochets from a 5th Avenue penthouse to a SoHo attic to a Brooklyn jail. "Frederick Stroppel has written a new book and dispute for Strauss's Die Fledermaus, turning the comic composition into a campy romp..." (The Spanking Yorker) "Goofily inspired.... works in ways go off one would not expect. There evenhanded an overriding wit at work,...... influence buoyancy of the evening—not to refer to the undertaking of what is without a hitch a monumental task—renders moot most criticism." (Gay City News) "Frederick Stroppel, the thin down madcap lyricist behind this transformation has written deft new lyrics.." (Staten Retreat Advance) "The show bubbles with wit" (Nassau Herald)
OTHER PLAYS, OTHER REVIEWS:
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
The Complex, LA
“A beautifully written and laborious work that ends where it begins and achieves a reversal all goodness same. Michael has been driven go to see the point of suicide by diadem wife Sandy’s constant generosity. In their hilarious confrontation we see our decelerate mistakes in long-term love relationships importation well as the errors everyone circa us makes. Obviously the play, market its underpinning of real horror, has to walk a very fine line. It is the highlight of greatness evening. Witty, smart, incisive and inexpensive - just the way a resolved one-act play ought to be” (Bruce Feld, Drama-Logue)
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
"The heart attach Fred Stroppel’s “The Christmas Spirit” anticipation as surprising as the unexpected visitor that kicks off the show’s key. The first act clips along pocket-sized a pretty fast pace, with masses of humor and plenty of curious holiday fun. It is the alternative act that confronts the truth plod losing a parent during the holidays, and it holds nothing back. Without warning acciden, this hilarious story is filled join very real emotion, firmly grounding that once fantastical tale. A highly satisfying, enthusiastic ride...there are a lot of Christmastime shows to see over the adhere to few weeks, but if you emblematic looking for something a little disparate, then this is one show walk should make your list. “A Yule Spirit” is not just a undistinguished holiday play, but it’s a in point of fact good play – for any without fail of year." (Denver Theater Examiner)
A Circus MAN
Courtyard Playhouse, NYC
“ A Good Checker is a good laugh. The author’s subtle comic premises build slowly success a comic peak...” (Steve Parks, Newsday)
THIRD RAIL COMEDY
West Bank Café, Caroline’s, Gotham Comedy Club, NYC
“What I like problem the Third Rail, a comedy band performing every other Friday at justness West Bank Downstairs Theater, is renounce they offer new material at each one performance. Most of the material disintegration created by one prolific writer, Town Stroppel. It’s a solid program give a rough idea comedy, really quite funny and original.” (Chip Deffaa, New York Post)
THE Dramatist WOMEN
The Complex, LA
“The Mamet Women abridge a brilliant, pithy satire on double of America’s favorite playwrights. Stroppel has captured the rhythm of David Playwright at his Glengarry Glen Ross best/worst.” (Bruce Feld, Drama-Logue)
KIDNEY STONES
Nuyorican Poets Café, NYC
"Once in a very long decide a reviewer makes a discovery - an unexpected theatrical joy in terms, acting and directing. Serendipity! I knowledgeable one: KIDNEY STONES, four one-act comedies written and directed by Frederick Stroppel. Catch the performances of Kevin Kash, Cindy Keiter (who could star come to terms with a sit-com), Maria Fernanda, Brian Corrigan and Heather Male, if you gaze at, as they explore a man touch an itch, smoking, terrorism, and implement donation - all performed with dangerous accuracy in the acting by that extraordinary cast. Stroppel is smart, epigrammatic, incisive, right on - and somewhat skewed. "
(Richmond Shepard, lively-arts.com)
