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Playwright. Theater junkie. Minnesota Fringe Festival blogger (24 years and counting). BlueSky here, Instagram here. For more, visit my NPX profile.

Saturday, August 02, 2014

Fringe Review - Our American Assassin or You Can’t Handle The Booth - Theatre In The Round

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I almost don’t know what to say about Josh Carson anymore.  Should you see Mainly Me’s latest comic freight train Our American Assassin, o...

Fringe Review - Real Dead Ghosts - Mixed Blood

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The theater company and director and writer who brought the Minnesota Fringe Festival Sousepaw in 2011 are all teaming up again for a ver...
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Friday, August 01, 2014

Fringe Review - 1st Things Last: The Beginning of the End of Sketch Comedy - Rarig Xperimental

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This was awkward.  That’s really the best word to describe 1st Things Last: The Beginning of the End of Sketch Comedy .  Everyone involved...

Fringe Review - Indefinite Articles: A Libertarian Rage - Rarig Center Arena

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I’ve seen a version of Indefinite Articles: A Libertarian Rage before, but Mom had not.  Though a repeat of phillip andrew benett low mig...

Fringe Review - Into The Unreal City - Rarig Center

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“What the heck is that?” someone asked when I told them I was going to see Into The Unreal City .  Because it was one of the site specific...

Fringe Review - Kyle and Sean Are Lovers - U of M Rarig Center Arena

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Honestly, this was a relief.  The box office staff warned us that the show was going to be slightly different than the content described o...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Fringe Top 10 for 2014 - All The Links

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Here's the full list of titles in this year's 2014 Fringe Top 10 list with links to the individual write-ups: 1 - One Arm - Peres...

Fringe Top 10 - #1 - One Arm - Perestroika Theater Project

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One Arm is a stage adaptation of an unproduced Tennessee Williams’ screenplay about a military boxer who loses an arm in a car accident a...

Fringe Top 10 - #2 - Native Man, The Musical - New Native Theatre

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First, the insertion of Native American faces into a black and white rendering of members of The Avengers is brilliant and cheeky marketin...

Fringe Top 10 - #3 - From Here To Maternity - Shanan Custer and Joshua Scrimshaw

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As I said in tagging From Here To Maternity as one of my Fringe 5 of artists who I inexplicably keep missing at the Fringe, I’ve missed t...

Fringe Top 10 - #4 - Brazen Theatre - The Miss Longview Texas Drag Pageant

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I didn’t get the decorating gene, I didn’t get the fashion gene, and I didn’t get the drag gene - I missed a lot when they were putting to...

Fringe Top 10 - #5 - Yama and Kalinda: A Transdimensional Love Story - Hey Rube Productions

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Yama and Kalinda is another one from my Fringe 5 of artists I continue missing at the Fringe that I want to finally catch this year.  The...

Fringe Top 10 - #6 - The Happy Vagina Puppet Show - Dangerous Productions

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How is it that when you type the word Vagina into the Fringe website search engine The Happy Vagina Puppet Show is the only show that com...

Fringe Top 10 - #7 - Uptown Bank Heist - Siege Perilous Films

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The brains behind Siege Perilous Films were the folks who did the animation for the Flowershop Project’s production of my dark comedy Mede...

Fringe Top 10 - #8 - Playne Jane - Regal Dice

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Playne Jayne is another play I’m very interested in because of personal and artistic connections.  Jayne Deis has a quirky sense of humor...

Fringe Top 10 - #9 - Gray Duck - Wolf’s Mouth

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Director Lucas Skjaret is the main reason I’m seeing Gray Duck .  He did a great job directing an excerpt of my musical The Hopes and Fear...

Fringe Top 10 - #10 - (a dance two-fer) - Duetted - Monica Rodero, and Connected - Dan Schuchart

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Monica and Dan are teaming up on Duetted , and then Dan has his own solo show, Connected .  I’ve enjoyed the spirit of whimsy that runs th...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Fringe WTF Preview - Night 2

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“A motherfudgin’ ninja if ever I met one.” Don’t Let Them See You Cry: The Failures and Successes (But Mostly Failures) of Daisy Kay McC...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Fringe Previews - Battle of the Acoustic Guitars

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There were also a whole lot of guitars being plucked and strummed over both nights of previews.  One showed up in the previously mentioned T...

The Zeitgeist Got Stuck on Hillbilly

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There was a recurring vein of southern accented, kentucky fried, redneck style comedy popping up in the previews this year.  For example, ...
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Matthew
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Playwright, Literary Director for Threshold Theater, theater arts blogger, mostly about the Minnesota Fringe Festival - other useful links for me in the header above.
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