Fringe in the news for July 27

• Star Tribune: Fringe at 15: 156 shows, 18 venues
• UPDATE: Star Tribune: I do not know how I missed their spiffy Google map of all the venues/shows. Yay, Strib new media dept.!
• Star Tribune: Acting out
• Minnesota Monthly: Fringe Benefits
• Red Wing Republican Eagle: “Minnesota Fringe Festival will include Storm’s original play (about “The Scarlet Lady” creator Michelle Storm)

Fringe in the news for July 26

And now, news from around the infowebs… Today’s theme: Greater Minnesota represent!

• Fergus Falls Daily Journal did a story about Janet Preus (who used to live in Fergus Falls) and her show “Snip, Snap, Snute” at the Fringe
• Gustavus Adolphus has a story about “Maggie’s Magical Cat & Other Catastrophes,” a student-faculty collaboration
• Minneapolis Metblogs has a guide to things you must do before Fringe starts (including subscribe to this blog)
• …and Minnesota Mist is gonna see three shows (at least) at the Fringe

Shout out to Coco on MSN

MSN City Guides calls out Minnesota Fringe in a great guide to summer theater festivals across the country:

The rules, according to Executive Director Robin Gillette, are simple: “The only thing we ask is that the artists obey the laws of Minneapolis and of physics. Everything else is up for grabs.”

I love that quote. And, also, I love that Coco Fondue—our resident queen of the lottery—gets a shout-out on MSN.

—Matthew

Women light up the stage

Minnesota Women’s Press has a preview article about two shows in the festival, “If a Tree Falls” and “My War: From Bismarck to Britain and Back.”

“Minnesota’s Fringe is a vibrant event and a great venue for people to experience new things,” said Carol Flint-Kaliebe, an Edina artist performing at the 15th annual festival. “This is a terrific chance to showcase our work, get feedback and see what others are doing, too.”

Blog roundup

• A Libby in Minnesota? has an exceedingly useful post called “150 Things to Do in Minneapolis.” And Fringe ranks #2: “Spend the first two weeks of August racing from show to show for the Minnesota Fringe Festival.” You get to add that strike-through tag soon, Libby. Very, very soon.
• Baron Dave Romm from KFAI fame has a quick review of yesterday’s Fringe-for-All #2.
• The Survival Pages has a piece about the show’s background.

Catfight! and Fringe boy done good

Here’s your news and blog round up for Monday:

• The political blog Dump Michele Bachmann (three guesses how that one leans) is talking about John Ervin’s Catfight!
• Chaska Herald says: He’s got ‘Curb Appeal’, which is a nice little feature story about Sasha Andreev, an actor who was in “10 Speed Revolution” a few years ago… and is now a fancy schmancy presenter on HGTV
• …and, as an added bonus, the Kansas City Star has an interview with Cheryl Kimmi, the Fringe coördinator down there. It has nothing to do with our Fringe, but it’s still an interesting read. Also: Good luck with your Fringe, KC!

—Matthew

Full schedule on the Strib site—and PiPress!

If you’re looking for the full Minnesota Fringe ’08 schedule but—for whatever reason—can’t stand our Web site, try the StarTribune.com’s entertainment schedule. They’ve listed the whole thing, top to bottom, and even gave us our own category.

You can now search for theater, dance, comedy, spoken word, readings or Fringe. I like that we’re our own category. Oh, yes, I like it a lot.

UPDATE: AND the Pioneer Press has our full schedule up, too! Have I mentioned Minneapolis-St. Paul has the best press in the history of human language ever? Because we do.

Fringe Binge on KFAI’s “Fresh Fruit”

Last night, bunches of Fringe artists were featured on KFAI’s “Fresh Fruit” program. It was the eighth year Dixie Treichel and John Townsend have hosted us on their show—and it’s “Fresh Fruit”‘s 30th anniversary, making it the longest-running queer/LGBT radio show in the whole dang country, yo.

Listen to “Fresh Fruit” (RealPlayer) and check out “Fresh Fruit”‘s page on KFAI.org