The most successful
Cincinnati Fringe Festival since the annual event’s launch in 2004
wrapped up on June 9, boasting a nearly 9 percent increase in overall
attendance compared to 2011, from 7,177 to 7,728. More than 230 artists
performed, and the number of sold-out performances, 24, set a new
record.
Ninth Annual Cincy Fringe Sets Records
Freaky fixture in local arts scene brings creativity, community
2 Comments · Monday, June 11, 2012
by Danny Cross
06.08.2012
Cincy Fringe Concludes This Weekend
Two more nights of creative theater at Know — two more nights!
You've probably heard by now that the
ninth annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival has been underway for the
past week or so. If not, you clearly didn't come across CityBeat's
Cincy Fringe hub, where we've been collecting previews, reviews and
ongoing coverage of the fest since even before Day 1.
Since you only have two more nights to
enjoy the final few productions, here's a rundown of everything we
know:
Peruse CityBeat's Cincy Fringe
hub here, where you'll find reviews of all 32 performances.
Check out the official Fringe Festival
guide here, where you'll also find a schedule that includes Friday
and Saturday night's final shows.
“Marching Through the 2012 Fringe,”
CityBeat issue of June 6.
Check out what people are saying about
@CincyFringe on Twitter here.
And here's a little something on
Homegrown Theatre, a company created by native Cincinnatians and is
performing The Doppelganger Cometh and Overtaketh at the Emery
Theater tonight and Saturday night.
Delicious
0 Comments · Thursday, June 7, 2012
Family-friendly
Fringe shows aren’t common, but Psophonia brings a playful, even
childlike romp to the Festival with Delicious.
As frequent Cincy Fringe participants, the Houston-based, all-female
modern dance company more often has focused on women’s issues. But
as with their previous Fringe shows, Co-Artistic Directors Sonia
Noriega and Sophia L. Torres once again go all out on eye-catching
costumes, props and other visual elements in this series of brief
vignettes.
Marching Through the 2012 Fringe
1 Comment · Wednesday, June 6, 2012
As CityBeat’s June 6 issue goes to
press, the 2012 Cincinnati Fringe Festival is about half over. All 29
shows have opened and a few have concluded their runs. You still have several chances to see
some great shows before the Fringe concludes on Saturday.
Bombus and Berrylinne (Recommended)
0 Comments · Tuesday, June 5, 2012
And now for something
completely different, as the Monty Python guys used to say: Four
Humors Theater, back for another year at the Cincinnati Fringe, brings
a wholly different — and totally charming — piece for audiences
of all ages, Bombus and Berrylinne.
The Mistakes Madeline Made (Recommended)
0 Comments · Saturday, June 2, 2012
The
mistakes Madeline made, which give title to this 75-minute excursion
into wanton lack of bathing and job despair, are exactly those our
heroine Edna adopts as her personal route to coming of age and
meeting life on its own terms.
A
how-do-we-get-grown-up story seems appropriate for the annual intern
project at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC), this year the work of
five actors, directed by fellow intern Jenny Estill.
The Doppelganger Cometh and Overtaketh
0 Comments · Sunday, June 3, 2012
In her director’s
notes for The Doppelganger Cometh and Overtaketh, Leah
Strasser says, “We hope you find this play as funny as we do,
because we still laugh every time we hear it.” If that was the goal
of Strasser, who also plays a central role, and her colleagues who
have announced the birth of Homegrown Theater, a new local company,
I’m afraid I need to say “Better luck next time.”
Kiss Kiss Missiles: A Retrospectacle (Recommended)
0 Comments · Sunday, June 3, 2012
The
most engaging of the three dances presented by The Space/Movement
Project in Kiss Kiss Missiles: A Retrospectacle is the
first, with all five of the company’s dancers barefoot and wearing
costumes that could almost have come out of their everyday closets
with a sash or a ribbon added for the stage. A dancer wearing a
flaring red skirt and dark top appears in movement as slim and supple
as pulled taffy.
Nothing (Recommended)
1 Comment · Sunday, June 3, 2012
Nothing,
Nic Balthazar’s piece about bullying, makes it U.S. premiere as
Unity Productions’ Fringe production, presented at Know Theatre. A
one-man show, the multimedia play uses video and music to move the
story forward. Nothing
mixes forms and does it well: one part engrossing stage drama and one
part, documentary.
Radio Star (Recommended)
0 Comments · Saturday, June 2, 2012
Radio drama was a
distinct art form in the middle of the 20th century, and
Tanya O’Debra’s Fringe show, Radio Star, evokes
that evocative mode of storytelling, complete with sound effects,
with a distinctly modern filter.
