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Fringe Bloggers
All hail the Fringe! These five bloggers will be posting special insider (and outsider) reports before, during, and after the Minnesota Fringe Festival. For e-mail notification of all the latest posts, subscribe to the TC Daily Planet newsletter.
Kate Hoff
Last weekend! Fringe on...
by Kate Hoff • August 9, 2008 • Friday! We started off with Roofies in the Mochaccino presented by Empty S Productions at Interact. Michael Shaeffer is an extremely talented performer and a pop culture maven. Check out this collection of poems and stories – perfect Fringe. Two shows left! You’ve got no excuses. 10:00 Saturday, 5:30 Sunday.
Matthew A. Everett
Fringe day 9—Down and dirty
by Matthew A. Everett • August 10, 2008 • Best Thing I Saw Friday
(still one performance left of this one, today, Sunday, August 10th, 5:30pm)
Roofies in the Moccachino – Empty S Productions – Interact Center
5 Stars – Very Highly Recommended
Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
Sun Tzu's The Art of War
by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low • August 7, 2008 • I actually have some history with this text — there was a little black book in my father’s study when I was growing up that had a translation of this, that I was obsessed with for about a month, even trying to use it as the basis for a short story (which was, no doubt, a significant step up from the Dragonlance novels that were the basis of everything else I wrote at that time).
Wendy Gennaula
Robin Hood the Musical
by Wendy Gennaula • August 8, 2008 • Robin Hood the Musical! succeeds at “the Musical” but fails at “Robin Hood”. Strong performances and skilled singing save the show from a formulaic story.
John Munger
Southern Theater catastrophe
by John Munger • August 1, 2008 • As some of you may know, the Southern Theater is not only a Fringe Site but also one of a handful of focal points for the nationally recognized Twin Cities dance community. You may also know that July 15, two and a half weeks ago, brought news in the Star Tribune that the founding Artistic Director of The Southern, Jeff Bartlett, had been summarily dismissed by the Board of Directors.
