All Entries Tagged With: "hollywood fringe festival"
Bitter Lemons’ Critics Panel Set for Hollywood Fringe
We’re getting back to basics this year, LemonHeads, a topic right in our wheelhouse: The Purpose of Theater Criticism in the Twenty First Century. And boy do we have a lineup for you: Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly, Tony Frankel, Stage and Cinema, Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, Anthony Byrnes, KCRW, Terry Morgan, LAist and Ramona [...]
GRACIE & ROSE live off the land, love off the grid
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Cindy Marie Jenkins outreachnerd@gmail.com – (323) 552-3333 GracieAndRoseASoloShow @AnastasiaCoon & @CindyMarieJ #GracieNRose – #HFF13 GRACIE AND ROSE live off the land & love off the grid in Anastasia Coon’s solo show premiering at Hollywood Fringe Festival June 13-28 @ Art of Acting LA Los Angeles, Calif. (May 8, 2013) —- [...]
Funding Friday: Fringe Edition!
Friday May 3 5:30pmPT/8:30pmET Live Broadcast Funding Friday: Fringe Edition! Hosted by Cindy Marie Jenkins Guests include: Fund-raising Consultant Michael Kass Lily Mercer & Allie Costa: Before a Fall Danielle Ozymandias: The Other F Word Matthew Hill: Jason <3 Medea, a fresh look at an ancient love story Have questions about crowd-funding, fund-raising or the Fringe? Ask in [...]
First Hollywood Fringe Festival Workshop, Tomorrow, Saturday, 2pm, at Elephant Stages
If you are participating in the Hollywoof Fringe Festival in June or are considering doing so, you should definitely attend this first workshop tomorrow. One of the great values of the Fringe Festival – as far as I see it – is that is serves as a laboratory and intensive for up and coming producers. [...]
Hollywood Fringe Festival Design Winner
Jordan Monsell is the winner. Very cool design. Congrats. Check out all the info here.
Registration Now Open for the Fourth Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival
Annnnnnd GO! Registration Now Open for the Fourth Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival Open Access Performing Arts Fest Takes Place June 13-30, 2013 Registration opens today for the Fourth Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival (www.hollywoodfringe.org). Organizers are calling for artists and producers of the performing arts to join the celebrated event invading Hollywood this June. The registration [...]
Hollywood Fringe Design Contest: Closing Soon
Check ‘em out here, LemonHeads. Pretty darn cool. You too can get in on the fun go here. I believe they are picking the finalists deadline tonight! And remember the Fringe benefit is this Saturday Here are a few examples:
Hollywood Fringe Benefit this Saturday, Feb. 2nd, 7pm-2am
Should be a blast, as are most Fringe Frolics. If you’ve never attended one of these Fringe bashs they are like a mini-flash-circus, but with booze. The deets are below, you get a discount on tickets if you buy in advance. And the registration for the Fringe opens on February 1st! Can’t believe it’s already [...]
The 2013 Hollywood Fringe Design Contest
The Hollywood Fringe is already starting to crank back up and this year they want YOU to design their Fringe cover guide for the 2013 Festival. Here’s the skinny from their site: What We Want You to Design Every year, we produce a printed guide of all the shows produced at our festival. This contest [...]
#LAthtr News Bit – Hollywood Fringe & #ShitBenHillSays
UPDATE 3:03pm: Fringe’s Social Media Manager, Rachel Stoll, made it really easy to get in on this action. Make Your Own Ben Hill Meme. You can find a lot of news by following the #LAThtr hashtag on twitter (see it here even if you don’t tweet), and sometimes a gem crosses our collective paths. Last [...]
Hollywood Fringe Announces New “Fringe Benefit” Event for February 2nd
Yup. The Hollywood Fringe Festival is already starting to crank back up. Received the following info about this upcoming event and their first town hall of 2013: First Annual Fringe Benefit Coming February 2nd Happy New Year! Now that 2013 has arrived, it’s time to start preparing for the fourth annual Hollywood Fringe Festival. Registration [...]
Rogue Machine and Hollywood Fringe Festival Lauded by LA Weekly’s “Best of”
Yeppers. That little company that could, should and definitely would, Rogue Machine Theatre was named Best Theater Company in this week’s LA Weekly “Best of” edition. And our friends over at the Hollywood Fringe Festival were named Best Upstart Theater Festival. Congrats to both. Well deserved. Though we are wondering where our award for Best Theater Blog [...]
Watch Live-Stream of Post-Fringe Town Hall
Wednesday is Wild Card Day for Beyond the Blurb & this week I’m live-streaming the Post-Hollywood Fringe Town Hall. Join into the conversation! Obviously it’s better if you can attend, but this video will be available after the event as well. It will simultaneously be streamed on the Hollywood Fringe Festival Facebook page. —-From the [...]
Beyond the Blurb Recap
Recap Since Monday’s Beyond the Blurb Broadcasts are located in the Bay Area or within a book of essays, I thought it’s a good time to Recap and bring you up-to-date on the whole series. The idea arose from the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival. I’d searched for better ways to spotlight artists and nonprofits doing good work, and [...]
Beyond the Blurb of “Voices in my Head”
Monday 2:00pm Bill Ratner’s Voices in my Head The BLURB VOICES IN MY HEAD: A LIFE traces the strange path that led to Ratner’s becoming the disembodied voice of a generation. Follow this middle-class orphan, liberated by a crystal radio set, through the shadowy world of electronic imagery in a media-mad nation. Meet a wicked stepmother, the mystery of the [...]
THIS VICIOUS MINUTE (ELEPHANT STUDIO STAGE): 84% – SWEET
SWEET Without a doubt, This Vicious Minute, is one of the more important shows to see at the Hollywood Fringe this year. It is so raw, so compelling and so lazer focused that you will not be able to stop listening. You will ‘hear’ Ben Moroski’s story. And you will ‘see’ as he lays [...]
Beyond the Blurb of “Doomsday Cabaret”
Friday, July 13 9:30pm Best of Fringe series continues Doomsday Cabaret THE BLURB DOOMDSAY CABARET! A Rock Musical of Apocalyptic Proportions is all about the apocalyptic freaks and geeks who are on the fringes of society praying for the world to end. They all get together on 12/21/2012 for what they think will be doomsday [...]
25 PLAYS PER HOUR (BEST OF FRINGE): 100% – SWEET
SWEET Even with variable results from multiple entries this year, Theatre Unleashed is a good fit with the Hollywood Fringe Festival, as the return of this surefire speed-theater exercise bears out. David C. Nichols – Backstage SWEET It’s no surprise that a collection of twenty-five plays contains varied tones, subject matter, and levels of quality. [...]
GENTLE PASSAGE (BEST OF FRINGE): 75% – BITTERSWEET
SWEET Under the simple but effective direction of Paul Messinger, the work moves quickly and neatly to efficiently tell an entire dramatic life story. Mia Bonadonna – LAist SWEET Gary Rubenstein gives so much amiable delightfulness to such a tragic character. Instead of overplaying the emotions of circumstance, he effectively plays the reality of the [...]
THE WOMEN OF TU-NA HOUSE (BEST OF FRINGE): 100% – SWEET
SWEET Eng is a polished performer who delivers super characterizations, and director Ernest Abuba keeps everything moving smoothly. The writing is sharp, but the show’s poetic interludes add a sticky layer that just isn’t necessary. Jennie Webb – Backstage SWEET All are played with skill and panache by writer-performer Nancy Eng. Individual stories may be [...]
CYCLES (BEST OF FRINGE): 86% – SWEET
BITTERSWEET “Cycles” by Robert Litz is a well acted, sharply directed and crisply written piece that only suffers from a decidedly forced plot point inflicted on the work by the playwright in an needless effort to crank up the drama as the piece rounds into home stretch. Ernest Kearney – Bitter Lemons BITTERSWEET Taking the [...]
DAVID DEAN BOTTRELL MAKES LOVE! (BEST OF FRINGE): 100% – SWEET
SWEET Watching David Dean Bottrell Makes Love my heart broke while my sides hurt from laughing as he dished about his disastrous blind date, a boyfriend with a substance abuse issue, and most touching, his complicated relationship with his Kentucky father. Xaque Gruber – Huffington Post SWEET Even when he’s insulting everybody in the room, [...]
MAKING LOVE OVER THERE (BEST OF FRINGE): 100% – SWEET
SWEET Making Love Over There is as thoroughly entertaining as it is shamelessly optimistic. In the interest of full disclosure, this is a company on which I’m developing a little crush… Susan Burns – Hey Melpomene SWEET Making Love Over There is honest-to-goodness experimental theatre, shrugging off narrative to play with pace and tempo and [...]
ANACONDA (BEST OF FRINGE): 67% – BITTERSWEET
BITTERSWEET Doyle is a gifted writer who gives us a number of marvelous moments. Nevertheless, despite some amazing performances, “Anaconda” never quite coalesces. Jennie Webb – Backstage SWEET Anaconda is definitely not for the faint-hearted; there are some descriptions of graphic violence that made this critic queasy. Nevertheless, Sarah Doyle’s effective play is well worth [...]
Thursday: Beyond the Blurb of “Anaconda” & Watts Village Theatre Company
Thursday, July 12 6:30pm Best of Fringe series continues Sarah Doyle of Anaconda THE BLURB ANACONDA is a play that I wrote this year after the Penn State scandal broke. I was miffed at the public outrage that followed their hero getting fired for putting a school’s rep before the wellbeing of sexual abuse victims. [...]
Monday’s Beyond the Blurb: Zenith Ensemble on “Rise”
mission of beyond the blurb: connect technology with the arts and the arts to their audience Subscribe on You Tube http://bit.ly/BeyondBlurb Behind the scenes on Facebook Facebook.com/BeyondTheBlurb Notifications so you don’t miss a segment @OutreachNerd Submit your work or event to Beyond the Blurb ~ BEYOND the BLURB Best of Fringe series Monday, July 9th 6:30pm THE BLURB RISE is an original play written by Cal [...]
TAPE (BEST OF FRINGE): 90% – SWEET
SWEET Acted to perfection by Jason Karasev, Donald Rizzo, and Juliana Long Tyson and tastefully realized in a bare-bones staging, this production deserves widespread audience support. Remember the name of the producing entity: Identity Productions. Les Spindle – Bitter Lemons SWEET Riveting from beginning to end, setting the bar pretty high for the rest of [...]
JENNIFER ANISTON STOLE MY LIFE (BEST OF FRINGE): 83% – SWEET
SWEET The situation’s faux good cheer was distressingly well-observed under Deborah Geffner’s staging. Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly SWEET The play was well-written by Jon Courie, expertly directed and well cast. It was happy, sad, reflective and thought-provoking. All in all, it was the kind of stupendous art that I have grown to expect [...]
RISE (ELEPHANT STAGES): 100% – SWEET
SWEET Mean, lean and full of hard punches, “Rise” is a surefire attention grabber that doesn’t let go. If you liked “Mercy Seat” then sit down for this intense trip. M.R. Hunter – EyeSpyLA SWEET Director Aaron Lyons’s production is feverishly intense, with the stage almost not being big enough to contain Hayden and Colbeth’s [...]
MISSION TO MATE: 83% – SWEET
SWEET Mitchell’s writing, with each “movement” interwoven in clever ways almost undetectable unless one pays sharp attention, is the star here. Travis Michael Holder – Backstage SWEET All in all though, it is a lovely way to spend an evening at the theater. Larry Pontius – Bitter Lemons SWEET What can I say, I laughed, [...]
