Tess Stumpf of Infatuation Dance Company writes in with this video giving you a taste of what they were up to at the 2011 Philly Fringe. They’ll be back for the 2012 Philly Fringe Festival with a show called Tickle Me Gray. Tickle Me Gray runs September 22 at 8:00 pm and September 23 at… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Philly Fringe
Countertop Doll Dicing: On “BARBIE BLENDED: A Pop Rockin’ Musical” With Writer Haygen Walker
“Writing a musical is like having a baby,” said Haygen Walker, writer and co-lyricist of the 2012 Philly Fringe show BARBIE BLENDED: A Pop Rockin’ Musical. I stared at him, trying hard to muster a look of feminine sage: “What do you mean?” I asked. He answered rapidly, his mouth a tripping cog in a… Read more »
Stories, Sticks, and Stones: Kate Speer Talks Narrative and the Body
The old nursery rhyme—at least one version, anyway—goes: Sticks and stones May break my bones But words will never hurt me True? “Not true at all,” says Kate Speer, half of the choreographic team behind the 2012 Philly Fringe production Sticks and Stones. “When your mother says I love you no matter what, it can… Read more »
On Talkbacks: Theater Artist Justin Jain Dissects The Form
Justin Jain is a Philly-based theater artist, member of The Berserker Residents, and a 2011–12 LAB Fellow. Audience talkbacks and artist feedback sessions have always been tricky for me. Personally, if I am showing a work-in-progress, I will have already gained all the information I need for my future studio work during the showing itself…. Read more »
Lee Etzold And Her World Of Funny
When it comes to creating art, Lee Etzold is not afraid to work up a sweat. “I’m not really a sit-down-at-a-computer playwright. I’m more of a get-in-a-big-space-and-jump-around playwright,” she explains. A lifelong athlete, Etzold has always been a very physical person. She played sports in high school and believed she would play basketball or field… Read more »
Artists & Their Coffee: Meg Foley
Name: Meg Foley Company: Moving Parts/megfoley Artistic occupation: Choreographer First experience with coffee that made you understand coffee: I only started drinking coffee on the daily about a year ago and the kick in the butt that comes with coffee was pretty revelatory for me. It is definitely a different boost than drinking mate or black… Read more »
The Fringe Hit Experience (And Now What?): An Interview With Terry Brennan About 2011’s Heavy Metal Dance Fag
In every Philly Fringe a few shows capture the festival buzz, and take off in popularity, audiences, and critical attention. In the 2011 Philly Fringe, Heavy Metal Dance Fag by Tribe of Fools definitely caught that buzz, establishing itself as a festival hit that nearly all Fringe goers knew about. It became the default show… Read more »
My Life in [Performance] Art
Theater artist Domenick Scudera begins a regular column about his experiences in the performing arts. Performance art is easy. You get onstage, share comic yet painful childhood memories, strip naked, smear chocolate on your body, and you are done. If you want, you can throw in a few innovations. Tell about your painful teen years… Read more »
A Festival to Remember: Winners of the 2011 Festival Photo Contest!
Like Christmas, the Festival comes but once a year. Yet, like with the gifts under the tree, we reap its benefits all year long. First and foremost, there is the ever popular game of, “Do You Remember That One Show Where Someone….” This is a popular game because of its adaptable playing rules. You can… Read more »
Devising Rimbaud
Devised theater is something of a phenomenon in Philadelphia’s performance scene. Pig Iron, of course, has been one of its longstanding local practitioners, and younger groups like AGGROCRAG and the Groundswell Players have been bringing their takes on the practice to Philly Fringe over the past few years. This week, an exceptionally promising group performing… Read more »
Fringe Comedy Press!
The Fringe Festival’s comedy line-up has been blessed with a multitude of good reviews! >>>Philadelphia Weekly’s Nicole Finkbiner likes puppet-prov, and so do we. She calls it an Escape to Alcatraz. >>>Uwishunu’s Allison Stadd picks The Waitstaff’s Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark as a Fringe audience favorite. >>>Philadelphia City Paper’s Janet Anderson… Read more »
Whit McLaughlin On “Extremely Public Displays of Privacy”
Did you see A.D. Amorosi give some love to New Paradise Laboratories’ 2011 Live Arts AND Philly Fringe offering Extremely Public Displays of Privacy in the Inquirer? We caught up with “Mad Genius” Whit McLaughlin (NOT pictured) to find out more about what’s at stake when we live our lives quite so openly. Why have… Read more »
My Dad is Now Ready For His Sponge Bath
“If my dad had been prime minister of India–as unlikely as that would have been–I probably would have written a play about that. But, he died from lung cancer and that became my topic,” said Jay Nachman, creator and performer of My Dad is Now Ready for His Sponge Bath, his 2011 Philly Fringe show…. Read more »
Huffing and Puffing at Philly Fringe
Straw, Stick, Brick is a sister-brother collaboration between Jillian Taylor–a local fiction writer and playwright–and M. Craig Getting, the show’s director. At the 2011 Philly Fringe, Straw, Stick, Brick focuses on Eric, a lone character/actor who, alone in his room, feels the need to build something, but everything he builds threatens to fall apart. “I… Read more »
Philly Fringe Preview: Deer Head
Our occasional colleague Josh McIlvain also writes plays. Some of them, he claims, are funny. (They actually are funny, but because he’s become somewhat of a demonic character in this blog we have to ride him a bit.) Preview for DEER HEAD below, including a bit that reminds me of my last time trick-or-treating …. Read more »
