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Minnesota Fringe Festival Bloggers

All hail the Fringe! Below are the most recent posts from each of our seven Fringe bloggers: Matthew A. Everett, Kate Hoff, Wendy Gennaula, Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, John Munger, Rachel Reiva, and Jay Gabler. These bloggers will be writing previews, reviews, and general commentary before, during, and after the Minnesota Fringe. To stay up to date on our Fringe coverage—and our arts coverage generally—follow ArtsOrbit on Twitter or Tumblr and subscribe to our weekly Arts Orbit Radar newsletter. These bloggers are independent of the Minnesota Fringe; the views expressed are those of the respective writers alone. For complete information on the Fringe, see fringefestival.org.

Review - Dial M for Murder - Shadowplay Theatre - Sending your wife to death row is always a good Plan B

When I walked into the Gremlin Theatre space and beheld the set for Shadowplay Theatre’s inaugural production, Dial M For Murder, I had some serious flashbacks to my old community theater days. This is not a bad thing.MORE »

Minnesota Fringe Festival shows I'm missing, but you don't have to...

There just aren't enough hours in the Fringe to see everything I want to see. Just getting started? Don't worry -- still plenty of time to get your Fringe on. If there is not a Sunday show listed, the Saturday show is the final performance -- unless they get the Encore slot at 8:30 on Sunday for the highest selling show in each venue.MORE »

Minnesota Fringe Festival -- Mother Tongues

“Mother Tongues” was at the Lab Theater. They’ve now gone back to Chicago.MORE »

Fringe Festival Reviews: Balls Out, Disney Dethroned, Red Hamlet.

Well it’s the end of Fringe and I am wrapping up my shows. So I am posting three today and three tomorrow. This year’s Fringe was great, there was a lot of wonderful good shows.  So, kudos to everyone that made this festival a success.

1.      Balls Out: by Six AppealMORE »

Can Madonna flip the bird to ageism?

@MarcusMichalik: Madonna is pushing overt middle-aged female sexuality in a culture that expects women her age to shrivel up and die. I find this significant.

Me too. The women-in-comedy discussions of 2011, if nothing else, revealed that there's still a yawning gender gap in professional comedy—as 2012 begins with the 53-year-old Madonna taking center stage at the Super Bowl and embarking on a national tour, this might be the year to look at the gender gap in 50+ entertainers. Actresses have long complained that the good roles for them disappear with frightening speed once they hit middle age...is that true for popular musicans as well?MORE »

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