Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Fringe Fest ’

We’ve all heard the cliché about our lives flashing in front of us just before we die. Well, Neutral Ground Ensemble from New Orleans takes that cliché and unwraps it, literally, by allowing four spirits to open the “boxes” of Bob’s life.
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“All’s well that ends well,” wrote the Bard. And Keir Cutler’s one-act dramedy, Teaching Shakespeare, not only finishes with a flourish but also starts strongly on its way to becoming perhaps the best one-man show at this year’s Fringe.
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In the first half of Stained Glass Windows, by playwright Steve Sherman, college student David (Jordan Woods-Robinson) reveals to his sister Claire (Hana Kalinski) that he is gay. At first, David’s older sibling is reluctant to accept the news with equanimity, but her love for her brother soon mitigates her initial stern and confused...
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Playwrights’ Round Table, Orlando’s own theatrical writing collective, offers Take Off Your Shorts, a gaggle of four short comedies, as its contribution to this year’s Fringe Festival. Each one-acter has its fun and funny moments, although only one play displays a mature use of language and structure. The best of the quartet is The...
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Poe and Matthews is a two-man trifle created by Emily Windler, who plays the 19th-century writer Edgar Allan Poe, and Brian Kuwabara, who plays the much lesser-known author and Poe contemporary Cornelius Matthews. The play’s conceit is that, somehow or other, the two friends find themselves marooned on a desert isle and now must...
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Brothers of Affliction is a gritty relationship drama depicting the trials and tribulations of three troubled and trouble-making Afro-American siblings. Chris, the eldest, drinks to excess; Shane, the middle son, who has spent seven years in prison, is a cokehead; and Tyree, the youngest, gets high on weed when he’s not getting into fights...
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Chase Padgett and Paul Strickland are both Fringe veterans who generally perform their music and standup comedy acts alone. This year, they decided to join forces, since, well, Solo Shows Are Hard. Luckily for the audience, the synergy works wonders. Together, they’re actually more than twice as good as they are separately. Both performers...
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Last night, local arts supporters gathered in Orlando Shakes's Margeson Theatre to celebrate a new holiday traditions. The Orlando Fringe Festival shifted this year's usual Halloween fundraiser to December, rebranding it as Merry Fringein' Christmas. Festival producer Michael Marinaccio and general manager George Wallace began by welcoming the audience, especially new United Arts CEO...
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One of the unexpected delights of the recent Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival was Blood Sisters, a concert staging of an exciting original musical starring an all-African-American cast. Last last month the show returned to Orlando for a limited run, and it concludes its 3-performance engagement at the Parliament House's Footlights Theatre tonight (Saturday...
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Swimming against the Fringe tide of fun-’n'-games, Mysterious Skin is a tidily put-together production of a play about falling apart. You may hear gusts of raucous laughter drifting in from other venues, but during Skin‘s 90-minute runtime, the Orange Venue is a roiling cauldron of emotional messiness. OK, it’s not all desperate — intense...
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