First-time Fringer Jonathan Padget is taking a literal plunge with his play The Blue Lagoon: A Musical. Turning films into musicals is all the rage these days, but Jonathan deserves much credit for going where even Hollywood wouldn’t dare venture. And in true Fringe spirit, the production was built largely from dollar-store items.
The next performances [...]
Who doesn’t enjoy a good nail through the nose? Stephon Walker certainly does. But when we met the artist better known as Swami Yomahmi in the middle of Silver Sprung, we barely recognized him. No nail, and no turban.
But we weren’t disappointed, because Walker’s inner geek is never far from the surface, and when [...]
So, Trey has had it up to here with Shakespeare. Perhaps watching this video will change his mind.
Hilary Kacser invited us to a rehearsal of her Fringe offering Love & War: With the Bard’s Broads and Dames, and of course we said yes. Hilary was freshly back from London, where she was invited to present [...]
Laura Zam seems to specialize in one-person shows with two-word titles about three subjects. Last year’s Fringe offering, Stupid Frailty, dealt with Internet dating, death, and genocide. This year, Laura returns with another one-woman show, Collaterally Damaged, about art, sex, and genocide. The shows are comedies. Kinda.
Shirley Serotsky is the play’s director, and she’s [...]
Everywhere you turn, it’s Julianne, Julianne, Julianne! Which is all well and good and certainly deserved. But let us interrupt the Brienzafest for a brief–too brief, perhaps–moment with the other CapFringe founder, Damian Sinclair.
We caught up with Damian at the Fringe Box Office grand opening last week. The location, also known as the Unified Launch [...]
A sell-out hit from last year’s Fringe, The Eddie Lounge Show returns this year with an all-new revue. We caught up with Mr. Lounge outside the Fringe Box Office during the official opening as he was distributing promo posters and postcards. Rule one: never stop promoting. Take it away, Eddie…
Don’t talk to Fringe playwright Kristen Cantwell about her new work at dinnertime, because you will be overtaken, as I was, with fierce hunger pangs. Because Kristen’s play is the musical cabaret, Butter: A Love Story.
Kristen scored at last year’s Fest with Confessions of an Invisible Woman (Here’s Trey‘s video interview.), and if my stomach [...]
We met the frisky funsters of Happenstance Theater, Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, at last week’s Happy Hour. The pair, along with Scott Sedar, are returning to the Fringe Fest with Low Tide Hotel.
The group’s show from last year’s Fest, Prufbox, was called “elegant, eloquent, and visually engaging in its simplicity and precision” on this [...]
Well—folks are commenting on our videos over at YouTube even before we post them here! May we remind everyone (anyone?) that comments at this location are entirely welcome. (Thanks, Sam!)
So, here then is the latest vid, from last week’s Happy Hour at the Warehouse Theater. We were very excited to meet Dr. Lynette Long, who [...]
We met Joan Bellsey at the Temperence Hall Happy Hour last week and she gave us the lowdown on her first Fringe Fest foray, The ExFiles. Joan’s play deals with the fallout when two moms break up and fight over child custody. Joan’s very active and chipper son Liam makes an appearance in this video.
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