Edited by Audacia Ray

Naked City's Guide to Sexiness at Fringe NYC

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Fringe NYC kicks off this Friday and runs through August 24th. While there are plenty of great things to see and experience at the festival, only some of them are sexy.

Here are the Naked City picks for sexiness:

III [three]
joes & co.
Writer: Joe Salvatore
Director: Joe Salvatore, Assistant Director: Ryan Weible
A real life, all-male m�nage-a-trois (1927-1943) between the photographer George Platt Lynes and one of the great artistic couples of the 20th century: writer Glenway Wescott and MOMA curator Monroe Wheeler. Never an even split, always emotionally charged. 1h 40m
VENUE #8: The Cherry Lane Theatre
Wed 13 @ 4:15
Thu 14 @ 9
Fri 15 @ 6:45
Wed 20 @ 4:15
Sat 23 @ 7

52 Man Pickup
Working Man's Clothes Productions
Writer: Desiree Burch
Director: Isaac Byrne
Sex and chance find their blessed union in this daring, fast-paced, memoir-manifesto, "52 Man Pickup", a salacious evening of story telling, stand-up, and sex toys - a high-spirited romp through the city that never sleeps with the same person twice.
1h 20m
VENUE #6: The Jazz Gallery
Thu 14 @ 7:45
Mon 18 @ 9:15
Wed 20 @ 5:30
Thu 21 @ 10
Sat 23 @ 3


Anais Nin Goes to Hell
Maieutic Theatre Works
Writer: David Stallings
Director: Cristina Alicea
Imagine an island in hell with Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, and Queen Victoria...waiting for their men. What happens when women's lib icon Anais Nin arrives to turn their afterlife upside down? 2007 First Prize Winner Boston Theatre Works Unbound Festival. 2h 20m
VENUE #17: The Connelly Theater
Fri 8 @ 9:45
Sun 10 @ 9:30
Sun 17 @ 7:15
Thu 21 @ 5:15
Sun 24 @ 2:45

The Boss in the Satin Kimono [pic at top]
Fabulous Productions
Writer: Blake Hackler
Director: Susanna Gellert
Nuns! Whores! Lesbians! Social Workers! Song! Dance! Tapestries! Join Lady Maybelline and company as they fight to save their "ecumenical clinic for men in need" from the evil moral majority! Looking for family fun? You won't find it here!. 1h 30m
VENUE #15: Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street - The Bleecker Street Theatre
Sat 9 @ 2:30
Sun 10 @ 9:30
Fri 15 @ 7:30
Sat 16 @ 2:45
Tue 19 @ 3

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The Chronicles of Steve: the bossy bottom
path productions
Writer: David LeBarron
Director: Gordon Vandenberg
Gay from L.A.: With his new one-man comedy show, David LeBarron weaves a sex-quest that fully inflates the biggest sexual organ: the heart. The LA Weekly said: "Hilarious, slide-splitting, very funny, riotous, GO!. 1h 15m
VENUE #10: The New School for Drama Theater
Fri 15 @ 9:30
Sat 16 @ NOON
Sat 16 @ 7
Sun 17 @ 9:15
Mon 18 @ 5

The Home for Wayward Girls and Fallen Women
Hotsy Totsy
Writer: Cyndi Freemen and Joseph Naftali
Twirling tassels, flying underpants and a swell time! An irreverent burlesque soap opera with a different show each performance, featuring an all-star rotating cast of the hottest dancers and vaudillians in the NY burlesque scene. Thrills and death defying g-strings! 1h 10m
VENUE #4: The Deluxe at Spiegelworld
Sat 9 @ 6
Tue 12 @ 7:15
Sat 16 @ 10
Thu 21 @ 9:45
Sun 24 @ 3:30

Nudists in Love: A New Musical
The Skyclad Company
Writer: Music & Lyrics by Nirmal Chandraratna, Book by Shannon Thomason
Director: Sara Thigpen
The perfect couple, the perfect town and one little secret. Gardenia, USA is thrown into chaos over one man's need to express himself, um, nakedly. Forget your hang ups and let it all hang out. 1h 40m
VENUE #15: Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street - The Bleecker Street Theatre
Fri 8 @ 9:30
Thu 14 @ 7
Fri 15 @ 5
Thu 21 @ 10
Sat 23 @ NOON

Other Bodies
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Writer: August Schulenburg
Director: Heather Cohn
The creators of last year's FringeNYC Village Voice Audience Favorite Riding the Bull return with this seductive battle of the sexes between a notorious player and mysterious woman that deepens into a haunting parable of how our bodies betray us.
2h 25m
VENUE #18: CSV Cultural and Edu. Cntr. Flamboyan
Sun 10 @ NOON
Sat 16 @ 8:45
Sun 17 @ 4:15
Wed 20 @ 6:45
Fri 22 @ 3:45

The Pantyhose Grid
Cynthia Frank
Writer: Cynthia Frank
Director: Paul J. Michael
A Lesbian English Professor teams up with an oversexed Religion Professor in order to examine a lost diary by Jane Austen. What they discover promises to reveal the hidden key to the mysteries of sexuality, gender, and the very structure of the Universe. 1h 0m
VENUE #17: The Connelly Theater
Sat 9 @ 5:15
Tue 12 @ 3
Fri 15 @ 10
Sun 17 @ 2:45
Wed 20 @ 8


Paper Dolls
Lively Productions & M�tropole Ink
Writer: Patrick Huguenin
Director: Gaye Talyor Upchurch
NYC GOSSIP COLUMNIST CAUGHT IN SEX SCANDAL! Claire Cunningham loves to dish the dirt...until she gets dirty. With her movie star brother, conniving assistant, and a mysterious stranger, she's about to rock the pages of the New York tabloids.
1h 50m
VENUE #12: The Players Theatre
Wed 13 @ 7
Sat 16 @ 12:45
Thu 21 @ 7
Fri 22 @ 4:45
Sat 23 @ 9:45

Rosalee Was Here
Winterset Productions
Writer: Maura Campbell
Director: Toby Ring Thelin
An 11-year-old girl, convicted of sexual crimes, is torn from her family. Subject to the juvenile justice system, she struggles for personal freedom against an already overburdened school administration. Will the help of a stranger be enough? A true story. 1h 30m
VENUE #18: CSV Cultural and Edu. Cntr. Flamboyan
Sat 9 @ 5:30
Thu 14 @ 5:15
Fri 15 @ 9:15
Thu 21 @ 7:15
Sun 24 @ 3:30

Self-Portrait as Schiele
TheaterMEME
Writer: Mark Lindberg
Director: Gerritt Turner
Warning: this show contains nudity, sexual situations, foul language, and may cause dizziness, rash, or other uncomfortable side effects. M�dchen, a young American artist, wrestles with a mysterious illness and increasingly intrusive house-calls from deceased Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele. 1h 30m
VENUE #17: The Connelly Theater
Sat 9 @ 9:45
Sat 16 @ 2:45
Tue 19 @ 4:45
Thu 21 @ 8
Sat 23 @ 2:45

Sex, Cellulite and Large Farm Equipment: One Girls Guide To Living and Dying
River Huston Productions
Writer: River Huston
Director: Cheryl King
River Huston draws on her experiences as a marijuana farmer, armed robber, dominatrix, living with two terminal illnesses, moving to the country and financial ruin. If you�ve had a bad day or a bad decade, River will make you laugh! 1h 20m
VENUE #6: The Jazz Gallery
Sat 9 @ 3:15
Wed 13 @ 10
Sat 16 @ 9:45
Mon 18 @ 3:15
Thu 21 @ 7:45

The Vajayjay Monologues
Pot of Jam Productions
Writer: Lindsay Burns
Director: Vicki Stroich
Ten years after Eve Ensler created The Vagina Monologues Oprah began calling her vagina a vajayjay and Britney Spears began showing hers in public. What went wrong? An 80-minute one-woman tour-de-force, The Vajayjay Monologues invites laughter and inspires debate. 1h 20m
VENUE #7: The SoHo Playhouse
Sat 9 @ 2
Wed 13 @ 3
Fri 15 @ 11:45
Sat 16 @ 10
Mon 18 @ 5

Woodhull: A Play About the Woman Who Ran for President
Elephant Ensemble Theater
Writer: Liza Lentini
Director: Mary Geerlof
Woodhull tells the story of Victoria Woodhull, an outrageous and revolutionary former prostitute who--with a platform that included abolition of the death penalty, legalized prostitution, and free love--was the first woman to run for President in 1872. 2h 0m
VENUE #1: The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
Sat 9 @ 9:45
Sun 10 @ 3:15
Tue 12 @ 6:45
Wed 13 @ 4
Fri 15 @ 5:30

XY(T)
PoMo Freakshow Productions
Writer: Kestryl Cael Lowrey
Do you have the balls to become a man? Delve into questions, contradictions, and characters exploring: TESTOSTERONE. Transgender butch Kestryl Cael strips layers of gender-self-sex-sanity pursuing his own masculinity. Are you ready to take it all off? 0h 50m
VENUE #13: The Players Loft
Sat 9 @ 5:30
Sun 10 @ 7
Wed 13 @ 5:15
Fri 15 @ 7
Sat 16 @ 2:15
Mon 18 @ 7
Fri 22 @ 3:30

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