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Abducted
Action!
Asian for Dummies
Ball and Daisy Chain
Can You See Me?
Certain Things...
Chinese Clown Cabaret
Cincinatti
Come Fly With Me Nude
Comedy on the Square
divagation
Faker
Flame and the Stone
Flower Murderer
Framework
Future Folkloric
Hollywoodland
Home/Darkness
Hooray for Speech...
It's Stupid to Steal...
Late Night With God
Long-Form Improv &...
m.i. blue's TWILITE...
Magic @ the Fringe
Moliere Than Thou
nEO-sURREALISTS Present
Other American Stories
Oui Be Negroes
PAIN
Quarter Into It
Rabbit Causes Dog
Rap Canterbury Tales
Reframing the Hourglass
Short and Sweet...
some life
Subhuman-True Tales...
This Love Train...
Thrilling Adventures...
Tonight: The Harsh …
Under the Counter...
Viva Karaoke!...
Viva Vivi
Wrestling an Alligator
Young War
Zeppelin Beach Improv

Play: Faker
Reviewer: Diana Galligan
Reviewer Email: diana@peppermillmedia.com
Charming, lovely and from the heart. I'm still amazed at Karen's willingness to strike from the heart and walk in risky personal territory. She has a fabulous voice and a great stage presence. Her show is wonderfully executed and very funny. Well worth seeing!

Play: Faker
Reviewer: Shaun Landry
Reviewer Email: shaunlandry@yahoo.com
Rating: 5 Stars
If there was a ten scale, I would give it. This show is show well excuted, so well peformed by Karen...so musically done, such a dynamic use of computer visual... so poignant and funny without being pissy or didactic....dynamically directed by Norm Holly...with wonderful mixes of casual improvisational spots...I cried by the time Karen did her final number. It made me yearn for more shows like this. It made me yearn for being home and in Chicago seeing this sort of theatre so lacking in San Francisco. It made me wish Karen did not have a steady. This is, in my honest and humble opinion...the best one person show I have seen to date at The San Francisco Fringe Festival 2004. If there was a god in heaven...Karen would be here for Best of Fringe.

Play: Faker
Reviewer: Kensek
Reviewer Email:
Rating: 4 Stars
Karen Weinberg gives a high-energy performance about an ugly duckling transforming herself (often through plastic surgery) to become a star. She pretty flawlessly connects with the audience at the beginning of the performance while simultaneously joking about needing to connect. One gets a sense that it’s someone you know performing in front of you. Weinberg plays multiple characters in the performance. Faker is a treat.

Play: Faker
Reviewer: Kelly
Reviewer Email: staygoldpony1@yahoo.com
Rating: 4 Stars
Faker was great! I was still humming the songs on the way home from the theatre. Karen Weinberg can do it all: sing, act, make you laugh, make you remember all those awful "ugly duckling" days you thought you had successfully repressed. Weinberg does such a wonderful job portraying such a vivid, real (and mostly-autobiographical, I believe) character, that everyone can identify with her. You'll be laughing out loud, tapping your toe, and nodding your head with complete empathy and familiarity of the character. Go see it, and you'll agree!

Play: Faker
Reviewer: another Jewish lesbian
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Rating: 5 Stars
Thought that the performance was great! The play totally hit on some issues that I and my Queer and Jewish friends have also had to deal with in our lives, like nose jobs, being that "not-white" Jew, and just in general being an American Queer Jew. I really identified with many of her struggles. She was a wonderful singer and actor and the piano player/actor was ab fab as well!

Play: Faker
Reviewer: Mia
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Karen Weinberg is a true dynamo, and Faker is hilarious, sharp, courageous, and very entertaining - I really enjoyed it, even if I spent half the time just in awe at her incredible energy. So many witty songs - and witty delivery (I especially liked the "binge-eating song"!), very deftly defined characters, and I also liked the interplay with Jonathan Wagner, the co-composer and accompanist. Great work!

Play: Faker
Reviewer: Chris D'Amico
Reviewer Email: TheWurx@aol.com
Rating: 4 Stars
You will LOVE this show!!! It's funny, clever and brutally honest. Karen Weinberg bares every aspect of her life for your amusement... Remember the most painful years of your life? Those awkward years when you were going through the most excruciating changes? The torment of bullies and the rejection of everyone you were in love with? Well, Karen confronts all her demons from those years face-to-face in a one-woman musical filled with great humor and warmth, not to mention hot sex... Karen uses a framing device of an intimate interview with the Hollywood Bombshell Superstar She Always Wanted to Be so she can explain How She Got Here... She drifts from Fantasy Diva to Awkward Teen to Mature Adult, and uses vivid characters, terrifically clever songs and her own innate charm to tell how she got from terrorized pubescent to fully actualized Jewish Lesbian comedienne. I saw Karen perform this show last year when it ran at the Second City complex in Chicago. It's not easy explaining how she does what she does. She segues from character to character without notice, but you never have any doubt what persona she's adopting at any given moment. She is total command of her talent and her story at all times.But to me, even more impressive is her willingness to take on the most painful memories of her adolescence. I didn't go through half the shit she went through, and you couldn't pay me enough money to relive any of it. I still cringe when I think of myself at that age... yeesh! But Karen takes on all of it, how bullies terrorized her, how she dealt with her Jewishness in a decidedly unJewish suburb, how she dealt with her huge schnozz until she got a nose job (actually, I think she was adorable before, but the current nose is truly a work of art), and how she came to terms with the budding Lesbianism surging through her teenage loins (damn, this is making me hot...). Anyway, this review is all over the place, but seriously, check her out... you won't regret it!!