Fringe Festival to feature unconventional shows in conventional homes
Is the KC Fringe Festival going mainstream? The answer: A little bit yes and a little bit no. But the annual 10-day summer marathon of alternative theater, dance and music performances this year finds...
View ArticleFringe Fest performers take dare, make artistic leaps
The KC Fringe Festival is a place where artists can do the thing they dread the most: fail. Nobody wants to fall face-first on a festival stage, but the Fringe is a forum where actors, directors,...
View ArticleSex, love, revenge and audacity on Fringe Fest's opening night
KC Fringe is all about audacity, and the Friday night audience assembled at the Off Center Theatre to see a new play called "Tack Driver" witnessed a remarkable example. Moments after the audience...
View ArticleKC Fringe | Drugs, munchies, fractious family key new comedy
Talia and Natalie Liccardello, sister playwrights, have made the most of a comic premise that was too good to fail: A family intervention deteriorates into name-calling, guilt-tripping, Xanax-popping,...
View Article'Thank You Notes' is notable among Fringe Fest plays
Playwright Vicki Vodrey combines element of farce, satire and classical tragedy in "Thank You Notes: Headed to Heaven With Flat Jimmy Fallon," an entry in the KC Fringe Festival that stands out for the...
View ArticleSad/funny plays find a home on the Fringe
How nice it would be to see every single KC Fringe performance. Alas, that would be impossible unless your humble theater critic could be cloned three times over. But the best of five shows I caught...
View ArticleKC Fringe: R-rated farce and cabaret beyond the infinite
There's something highly amusing about seeing somebody get hit on the head with a frying pan. That particular brand of comic violence is central to Pete Bakely's "Skillet Tag," which satirizes the...
View ArticleFringe Fest | 'Sexing Hitler' unconventional; 'Buck Hoss' a classic update
Oh, those crafty Nazis. In 1940, designers and fabricators at a factory in Dresden set to work making inflatable sex dolls for the troops because fine young specimens of German manhood were falling...
View ArticleKC Fringe Fest | '7 (x1) Samurai' celebrates a genre with virtuoso clowning
David Gaines is an exceptionally skilled clown who creates vivid images on stage with nothing more than his own body, a couple of masks and vocalized sound effects and faux dialogue. His show, "7 (x1)...
View ArticleKC Fringe Fest | 'Pilgrimage' is an ambitious idea that works
Let's face it: Katie Gilchrist is a rock star. She certainly carries herself like one, and by putting the cap on Ry Kincaid's "Pilgrimage" with a soulful anthem, she closed his ambitious show with a bang.
View ArticleFringe Fest provides a launching pad for some shows
Funny thing about KC Fringe -- even when it's over, it's not over. The annual festival of music, dance, theater, film and visual art in venues scattered across the Crossroads and midtown officially...
View ArticleFirst lineup of KC Fringe festival shows announced
Central Standard Theatre founder Bob Paisley will present five plays at this summer's KC Fringe festival, including performances by artists from California and Adelaide, Australia. The KC Fringe...
View ArticleThese Fringe Festival shows have intriguing possibilities
Based on the track records of presenters and artists -- or maybe just the possibility of memorable weirdness -- we direct your attention to some promising KC Fringe offerings.
View ArticleEclectic and intriguing, annual KC Fringe Fest opens Thursday
The KC Fringe Festival gears up for another week and a half of alternative theater, music, dance and visual art in venues ranging from the the Crossroads to midtown. It's a chance for artists to get in...
View ArticleRednecks beyond the infinite, spiritual questions in the inner city
Robert Trussell reviews "Wiccans in the Hood" and "Outta Beer and Outta Space"
View ArticleDark inner lives, unique cultural history and one very odd musical
KC Fringe: "Bedtime Solos" mesmerizes, "Long Live the King' impresses and "Lucky Streak" inspires head-scratching
View ArticleKC Fringe Festival opens with hilarity, quirkiness and variable results
In its opening weekend, the 2013 editiion of the KC Fringe Festival, the annual summer arts festival, offered performances that were deverse and variable in quality. Here's a sampling of what The...
View ArticleTwo one-act plays of 'Bernice/Butterfly' offer humor and surprising twists
Two of Kansas City's best actors bring their skill sets to "Bernice/Butterfly," an intriguing pair of related one-act plays offering contrasting views of a dying small Kansas town.
View ArticleTheater review: Strong performance, moving script make 'Solitary Choice' a...
Australian actress offers a compelling performance in "A Solitary Choice" one of the strongest dramatic pieces at KC Fringe.
View ArticleFringe Festival 2013 was an absorbing array of old and new
The 2013 edition of the KC Fringe, the annual festival of performances and visual art exhibits that wraps up today, offered shows that plunged us into the here and now and revisited the past with humor...
View Article
