The conclusion of my Fringe Festival experience took place in the chilly Artist’s Image Resource building, a small yet colorful space dotted with anti-Trump art pieces. I would be seeing 5 completely disparate one person shows here. As with the… Read More ›
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Apocalypse, Adventure, Sex, and Bingo: A Fringe Odyssey
As a first time attendee and critic of the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, I had a certain set of expectations in terms of tone for the shows I was about to see, expectations that were exploded immediately. Rather than a series… Read More ›
Into the Fray: First Night of Fringe
Amid the dismally, dreary haze of Friday evening, there was a certain excited hum and rattle that illuminated the day as it settled into dusk. This excitement was the anxious anticipation and elated knee-knocking of the performers awaiting their turn… Read More ›
Sunday Fringe: Taking a Dive into the Absurd
My Sunday Fringe viewing took a dive into the absurd. I began my afternoon by catching One Man Apocalypse Now in the smelly basement of St. Mary’s Lyceum. Full disclosure: at the conclusion of this show, I thought—holy Hell, what… Read More ›
Bring It Around Town: Fringe Sunday
Fringe stops for no woman, and today the train kept on chugging. After the high of yesterday’s performances, I was trying to keep my energy up, but I will admit that I was a little tuckered out. Still, I was… Read More ›
Solos Going Steady at the Fringe
Fringe Day Two kicked off with my extremely questionable choice to bike over to the north side despite it not being nearly as warm as I wanted it to be. After stopping at James Street for my now-customary pre-show beer… Read More ›
First Time Fringer Saturday!
Whereas the Fringe line up on Friday was a combination of plays in both the dramatic and comedic vein, the line up today was much more oriented towards what one would colloquially describe as music of the alternative nature with… Read More ›
Tips and Tricks at Saturday’s Fringe
Douglas Stafford, the writer and star of The Bad Idea Variety Show: My Lack of Social Life delivered a meta-style show at AIR Saturday night about what he describes as the truth of entertainment. Stafford tells a linear story about… Read More ›
No April Foolin’ at the Fringe
Thank god (whichever deity of your choosing) for Google maps. Not only did it help guide me into the city as I drove in from the lovely environs of dreary Erie, but it also got me to the venue for… Read More ›
An Apocalyptic Tour of Fringe 2017
Fringe is such a strange festival. It’s really a concoction of the eccentric, a bumbling mind manifested into the sphere of Deutschtown that is Pittsburgh’s North Shore. There’s a sort of cragginess to the event, a propped up expressionism that… Read More ›