I reported on this year’s New York International Fringe Festival (which runs through Sunday) in today’s Wall Street Journal drama column. The most talked-about show I saw was Bridezilla Strikes Back!:
For those who don’t keep up with reality TV, “Bridezillas” is the series that follows a group of increasingly demented brides-to-be as they plan their Must…Be…Perfect Weddings. Cynthia Silver, now a faculty member at New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, was approached to take part in the first season and jumped at the chance for network TV exposure, taking for granted that it was a straight documentary and not realizing that the producers would edit the cinema-verit