Here's the Cincinnati Fringe Festival lineup. Dates, times and locations will
be announced in April.
Full-length plays
Avarice in Wonderland by Columbus area theater artist Amy Talbott and billed as a humorous look at political and pop culture phenomena
The Pursuit of Happiness by BlueForms Group, also of Columbus. BlueForms wowed Cincinnati audiences in its first local appearance in autumn, 2003 with Performance Gallery
Shopping and ... by Columbus troupe Hand-Dog Theatre Company offers the dark comedy about three young Brits who sell drugs, sex and what is left of their souls to survive
Eating Raoul, a musical based on Roger Corman's cult cannibalism classic, presented by Kim Crabtree from Los Angeles
You Don't Exist to Me written by Cincinnati Shakespeare company member Matt Johnson for Pier Group Theatre
Short plays
100 Words by WETCo (Women's Explosive Theatre Company) of Columbus
Between the Lines by New Edgecliff Theatre features four directors using an identical series of random phrases to compose a script
The Lake Years (the first episode of a 17-part miniseries) presented by the Art & Drama Club (alums of Art Academy of Cincinnati)
Images of a Beating Heart by Performance Gallery will combine movement, spoken word and live sound into something non-linear
I Will Love You at 8pm Next Wednesday/A Poster of the Cosmos by local playwright Kevin Barry and Lanford Wilson respectively comprise an evening of one-acts from Know Theatre Tribe
The Razzmatazz Marionettes
One-person shows
This Love Train Is Unstoppable and I Am the Conductor by Minneapolis theater artist Dave Mondy goes from leading prayers at high school to negotiations in a Bourbon Street brothel
I Will Make You Orphans by New York artist Sean Christopher Lewis looks at a misguided white kid set against his world
Marx in Soho from Mad Ellen Theatre features a debate between a resurrected Marx and present-day American society
Spoken word
InterSexTions by Embrya deShango
Break Beat is hip-hop theater that explores the evolution of beat in poetry/rap by Abiyah
Performance art
Ur Sonata from the late 1920s produced by Dada Product
The Best of PTA brings Performance and Time Art Series downtown from College Hill with 15 of their past 150 performers creating original work. (Each Fringe show will showcase five performers.)
No Tomorrow? by performance artist Shirley Maul
Chrysalis has Cincinnati Shakespeare vet and area favorite Giles Davies in a performance piece about a son grappling with the passing of his mother
Life Excerpt #3 by Tara Guilfoil had a well-regarded debut last year
Dance
Mokshayoho: Untitled combines music by Rebecca Vie-Parker, choreography by Colleen McCarty and video by Brian Risdon
Untold Stories brings together collaborators Michelle Bump, Betsy Lippitt and John Burgess for tales of loss and despair
Music
Buckra
Catharsism of Narcotica (from Columbus)
Jane's Story
Mystic Dub Star and Big Bang
Parker Loses
Art installations
Dreaming Private Lynch by Stephen Herero
Time and space Art Series by Three Red Squares & an Orange contemplates movement as installation by Julie Roessler
TEMPO HEADLINES
Slave
pen focal point
of Freedom Center
Fringe
Festival offers cutting-edge lineup
Local
fest director immersed in work
Fringe
festival performers
Grammy
isn't such a leap
TV
era passes with Von Hoene
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
'Romeo & Juliet'
ballet demands acting, emotion
'Reverend
Mom' makes 'Nunsense'
'Dead
Lines' brings short works alive
Theater
league, council to meet
Students
present delicious taste of musical cabaret in 'Footlights'
SEEN
Leadership
awards: Inclusion Network
Fashion
on the Rocks: Hearing Speech & Deaf Center
Benefit:
Roger P. Slagle Memorial Fund
Up
next
SUNDAY TASTE
Black
history flavors her cookbooks
Helpings
Q&A
PLANNING AHEAD
Get to it
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