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 ›
Pittsburgh Fringe Festival
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 ›
Fringe 2017 Day 1: Teeth & Sinew and The Chronic Single’s Handbook
Cup-A-Jo Productions, a Pittsburgh-based artist collaborative, returned to this year’s Fringe Festival with another challenging piece: Teeth & Sinew. At the beginning, we see two figures—a man with his back to the audience facing a large sheet of paper and… Read More ›
Friday Fringe at AIR!
The evening began with the ridiculous but thoroughly entertaining one man show Laundry Night by Captain Ambivalent. Captain Ambivalent sings with the accompaniment of a gold accordion, telling the story of an ordinary super hero. The one man show reflects… Read More ›
The Fringe Awakens
Although the Fringe Festival is now in its fourth year, this is the first for me. If we’re being honest, it’s actually my first theater festival. So I’m easing into it. Only two shows today! After number nine on Sunday,… Read More ›