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So Long Richie and George
Two titans of music past away this week, Richie Havens and George Jones. So we sign off for the weekend remembering their music. Richie singing “Freedom” at Woodstock. George singing “He Stopped Loving Her Today” on some strange show with bad color.
Other Blogs: Do Not Use Social Media For Marketing
Oh, how I dislike the word social media, especially when it is expressed with such reverence and fuzzy hopefulness that by putting your message on “social media” it will spread like a supernova through the webverse and everyone from Boise to Shanghai will suddenly kneel down to your influence and your show/company/institution/theater/museum/etc. will be not… Read more »
In Library News: Rosenbach to surrender to Free Library?
In the exciting and faced paced world of library news, a shocker came out today as reported by Philadelphia Inquirer Classical Music Critic Peter Dorbin that the Free Library would take over the operations at the Rosenbach ”under the terms of a letter of intent approved Tuesday by their boards.” The Rosenbach has been around… Read more »
Alyesha Wise: Poetry and Performance
“Poetry started off as the feeling I got when I screamed in the pillow.” On May 13 and 14, FringeArts presents our second annual Jumpstart, a showcase designed to identify new and emerging talent in the field of live performance. 2013 will feature six artists/companies performing short works, and we here at FringeArts Blog thought… Read more »
Other Blogs: Fostering “Narrow Fame” Among Local Talent
Of interest to actors and marketing geeks. From a recent post in 2AMt, a theater blog devoted to many aspects of the business and a place for “thinking outside the black box,” Pete Miller writes about the value of including unknown actors’ names in marketing materials for shows, touching on the idea of “narrow fame.”… Read more »
A NEW FACEBOOK PAGE, HOW EXCITING
Hey, in case you missed the title of this piece it is A NEW FACEBOOK PAGE, HOW EXCITING. Because we are now FringeArts and because the people at facebook can’t get with the program, we have started a new facebook page, with our new name on it! (FringeArts.) What could be more exciting? You liking our… Read more »
Return of the Hidden City Festival
Four years in the making (sort of) Hidden City returns to the festival world with the much anticipated 2013 Hidden City Philadelphia Festival (May 23–June 30), which “celebrates the power of place through the imagination of contemporary artists, inspiring people to explore the city’s history and imagine new futures for our urban landscape.” Creative director Lee Tusman… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: J. Michael DeAngelis
Their 2011 Philly Fringe submit X/Y was named one of the Top 5 Must Sees at Live Arts & Philly Fringe by 34th Street Magazine, so we know that The Porch Room Productions makes good art. Composed of co-writers J. Michael DeAngelis and Pete Barry, the production company is collaborating with The Underground Shakespeare Company… Read more »
The Weekender: What You’re Doing and Why
Tomorrow the high temperature is only 79! Perhaps the end of the world is not nigh. In addition to chilling outside, here are some things that are going on. >>>Friday: Oh wait, this one is outside too. ?uestlove spins at Morgan’s Pier. Jumps off at 9:00 pm, $5. >>>All weekend: Philadelphia Folk Festival. All weekend…. Read more »
Dance Class Dreams in St. Petersburg
Marina Kec is a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College. She is a dancer and writer living in the Philadelphia area. This is where I dreamed of studying classical ballet as a child. Far-fetched maybe, but, nevertheless, a goal. I desired nothing more than to become a perfectly manufactured product of the Vaganova Ballet Academy’s… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Lauren Mandilian
Lauren Mandilian‘s 2012 Philly Fringe Timelines is a product of her current artist residency at <fidget>. A collaboration with dancers David Konyk and Megan Bridge, Timelines combines video projection and dance, a marriage sure to send eyeballs into overdrive figuring out who’s who and what’s what. Name: Lauren Mandilian Where do you live now? My… Read more »
“Ice Cream is a Feeling”
In the realm of alternative performance, we heartily recommend you watch the promo video below from Little Baby’s Ice Cream: Their ice cream is delicious (although not delicious enough to keep a lady in my neighborhood from kicking them off her stoop a couple weeks ago), and fully endorsed by this here blogger. Also, they… Read more »
Weekender: What You’re Doing And Why
The holy writ has been revealed by the proverbial prophets, angels, and nagas! That is, the 2012 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival + Philly Fringe Guide is out ‘n about: TONIGHT, grab a guide inside the Arden Theatre Company (40 North 2nd Street) from 5pm to 8pm. COME AND GET IT (re: Badfinger below). You can… Read more »
(Sur)reality, Environmental Justice And Discarded Materials: A Conversation With Artist And Activist Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Everybody worries about the environment. Even people who don’t believe in global warming aren’t keen on littering, carbon emissions, and increased instances of tsunamis, earthquakes, and floods worldwide. After all, it’s 2012, the year that it’s all supposed to collapse and kill us—right? Artist and activist Marc Bamuthi Joseph turns distress into action with his… Read more »
