Fringe File 2017, #2: Minnesota Fringe Festival Announces New Executive Director Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - February 28, 2017July 21, 2017 A 2015 photo of the Art Shanty Project on White Bear Lake. Photo courtesy of the Art Shanty Facebook page. Last night was the Minnesota Fringe Festival lottery, where balls plucked out of a hopper determine the lineup of the country's largest unjuried arts festival. Attendees got an extra surprise: the
Fringe File 2017, #1: The Basics Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - February 2, 2017July 19, 2017 Our popular Fringe File series on the Minnesota Fringe Festival returns for its first 2017 installment. Pictured: Grant Sorenson in New Epic Theater's Now or Later, an Ivey Award-winning production at the 2016 MN Fringe. Are you a dancer? Comedian? Actor? Writer? A one-woman band with a crazy magic show and a bunch of talking puppets?
Fringe File #15: The After-Reviews Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - August 22, 2016August 22, 2016 Official show image: For Worse, presented by Theatre Unbound. Just when you thought Fringe was entirely over for the year...out came a sequel. Here are a few more 30-second show reviews providing parting thoughts on some shows whose memories have lingered in our staff's memories: Gilligan: A Tropical Musical by Literally Entertainment Productions The 60s television show
Fringe File #13: Box Offices Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - August 15, 2016August 15, 2016 Julie Marie Muskat in RUNE presented by Vox Medusa at Intermedia Arts. Photo by Alex Wohlhueter. Note: This story has been updated to correct some inaccurate information. It originally stated that the MN Fringe Festival Ultrapassers Emeriti Facebook group was founded in response to the discontinuation of the Ultrapass; this group
Fringe File #12: The Encore Shows Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 14, 2016August 14, 2016 Arun Velliangiri as Aman Khan and Ranjan Dumra as Appa in Bezubaan: The Voiceless, one of the 2016 Encore-winning shows at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. The Minnesota Fringe Festival announced its 2016 Encore shows late last night at Fringe Central (Republic). The Encore shows are the highest-selling show in each venue, as
Fringe File #11: 30-Second Reviews, Round 4 Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 13, 2016August 14, 2016 Max Wojtanowicz in the promotional photo for Ball: A Musical Tribute To My Lost Testicle. More rapid-fire Fringe reviews from our staff. Ball: A Musical Tribute To My Lost Testicle Max Wojtanowicz's autobiographical musical Fruit and Fly first began its life at Fringe, a path leading to a run of the full-fledged show at
Fringe File #10: 30-Second Reviews, Round 3 Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 10, 2016August 11, 2016 The official show image for The Most Dangerous Game. Soundbytes from our staff on Fringe as we approach the half-way point. Snow Country This send-up of air travel is something that everyone who's flown in recent years will find especially funny. Fun, well-paced, and starting with a killer twist on travel commercials. H.P. Lovecraft's Rats
Fringe File #9: Yesterday’s Sell-Outs Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 8, 2016August 8, 2016 Good Friday with Dillinger, presented by LookBack Productions. Here are the sold-out Fringe Festival performances from Sunday: Yesterday's sell-outs Bird of Seven Colors by Erin Sheppard Presents Good Friday with Dillinger by LookBack Productions Twice by Its Time Productions Happenstanced by Pipermonkey Suite Surrender by PZ Productions Bezubaan: The Voiceless by Bollywood Dance Scene
Fringe File #8: 30-Second Reviews, Round 2 Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 7, 2016August 14, 2016 Betsie Feldkamp as Eurydice and Sara Fanucchi as Orpheus in Garden of Song Opera's production of Orpheus and Eurydice. Fringe is upon us! Word of mouth is picking up as almost every show has opened; here are the shows that have sold out at least one performance, in no particular order: Twice by
Fringe File #7: 30-Second Reviews, Round 1 Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 6, 2016August 7, 2016 A scene from Game of Thrones: The Musical. Fringe is upon us! Here are some of our staff's thoughts about shows that they saw in the first two days: Abreast of Burlesque Hello, late entry! Cute, flirtatious, and a little naughty...not that there's anything wrong with that. Apple Picking Once you've gone to Apple Picking, you'll never