The plot is pure comic-book chaos. Melvin Ferd the Third (Joey Banks), a well-meaning nerd, is tossed into a vat of toxic waste and emerges as New Jersey’s most unlikely hero. He falls for Sarah (Madi ...

2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Book of a Musical Joe DiPietro 2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Demond Green 2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a ...

NEW CASTLE ― Tromaville, the most polluted town in New Jersey, is coming to the city. The New Castle Playhouse has announced plans to perform "The Toxic Avenger The Musical," based on the cult classic ...

Ovation Theatre takes us to Tromaville this weekend with rollicking musical "The Toxic Avenger." The Ovation team found the show while looking for something in the vein of "Evil Dead: The Musical," ...

SAN DIEGO -- "The Toxic Avenger" got stuck in the sludge. Director Macon Blair's reboot of the classic 1980s cult superhero franchise from Troma Entertainment was shot four years ago and had its ...

First, some numbers. The first “Toxic Avenger” film, a Troma classic directed by the inimitable Lloyd Kaufman, arrived in theaters in 1984, eventually spawning three sequels, a stage musical, a Marvel ...

The '80s meet the 2020s in a vat of nasty chemical sludge.

When “Footloose” and “The Toxic Avenger” arrived in theaters within weeks of each other in early 1984, about the only thing they had in common was that they were both, well, movies. “The Toxic Avenger ...