Worlds Fair Inn NYC Reviews and Tickets

63%

(3 Reviews)

Positive

33%

Mixed

67%

Negative

Members say

Disappointing, Quirky, Experiental, Edgy, Highly stylized

About the Show

A dark comedy inspired by the failures and genius of 3 well-known historical and fictional figures.

For a limited time only at the Axis Theatre, Randy Sharp's vaudevillian comedy Worlds Fair Inn is back! The dark and sometimes deranged play takes its inspiration from three unlikely men: J. Robert Oppenheimer (the father of the atomic bomb), H. H. Holmes (an American serial killer), and Victor Frankenstein (yes, that one). Called a "uniquely charming" absurdist play by This Week in New York, the one-of-a-kind story adeptly moves between low and high comedy regardless of its serious subjects.

Member Reviews (3)

Quirky, Well preformed, Amusing, Experiental, Highly stylized

See it if you are curious as to what might happen if Vladimir, Estragon & Pozzo decided to recreate the Bride of Frankenstein. Good acting & direction

Don't see it if you like plays that are on stage for a longer time than you spend on the subway coming & going. About 1/3 of the tiny audience slept.

Disappointing

See it if You have a friend in the cast. You have some knowledge of true crime.

Don't see it if You want challenging, essential theatre. Why a play with so many white men in 2021? Audience members were falling asleep.

Quirky, Edgy, Excruciating, Disappointing, Confusing

See it if You love experimental theater

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Critic Reviews (3)

"While the play itself is a little bewildered and may not hold up 100% under scrutiny, it makes up for any messiness by wielding these concepts in vastly interesting ways. After my initial confusion, I found that like the tip of an iceberg, the play yielded more upon deeper reflection."
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For a previous production

"It’s a fever dream of a play, which sustains a dreamlike state through its stylish staging and design elements (lighting, sound/music, costumes, and sets are all thoughtfully considered and expertly realized). The excellent cast, which includes singular downtown actor Edgar Oliver, delivers the play’s recurring and inter-weaving motifs with hypnotic precision."
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For a previous production

"Writer-director Sharp adeptly maneuvers between high and low comedy as she takes on nuclear annihilation, a different kind of rather effective serial killing...and melds Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory, Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos, and Holmes’s murder hotel into a supremely funny and memorable show."
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