Fringe 2025 – Returning Favorites – The Young Artist’s Council of Youth Performance Company – Delete Later

The thing I enjoy most about theater by younger artists, like those of the Young Artist’s Council of Youth Performance Company, is that it’s often wild and adventurous in very unexpected ways.  The artists haven’t been doing theater that long, so they haven’t developed any hard and fast ideas about what the “rules” of theater are, and consequently, they’ll try pretty much anything onstage.  No one’s told them “you can’t do that” yet.  So off they go…
 
Delete Later
Young Artist’s Council of Youth Performance Company
Venue: Mixed Blood
 
Show Description:
Delete Later is a cabaret-style peek into the minds of Gen Z teens. Honest, funny, and raw—it’s everything they'd put in their notes app.
 
Genre & Content:
Musical Theater
Warnings:
None
 
The pitch in the press document isn’t that much different, or more informative:
Delete Later is a cabaret of Gen Z thoughts—like a diary, but in the Notes app onstage.
 
Since I know precious little of use about Gen Z, this should prove very illuminating.
 
Youth Performance Company is one of the best theaters for young artists and young audiences in town.  They may be scrappy and not have huge production budgets, but they’re devoted to developing young people into theater artists who take the work seriously.  They have high expectations, and those expectations are met, and quite often exceeded.  (It’s not an “oh look how cute they are up on stage!” and that’s it - kind of company.)  The Young Artist’s Council was created as an additional outlet for the older members of the company, an offshoot from the regular programming of the YPC where they could develop their own new work, or try something a bit more “out there” than the traditional seasonal programming.  It’s been a while since they’ve been on the Fringe roster (YPC and the Young Artist’s Council were on my pre-Fringe Top 10 list back in 2008), and I haven’t had a chance to see their work outside the festival in recent years, so I’m excited to see what they’re up to these days.

 

Here’s some handy links to my Fringe Top 10, Top 11 to 20 and Returning Favorites lists for this year, as well as all the coverage of this year’s Minnesota Fringe Festival.