Life in the (Hollywood) Fringe Lane: Load In, Load Out, Don’t Lose Your Shirt
How does HFF, now in its sixth year, stack up to other fringe fests? Sources say: comparable to NYC, but no match for Perth.
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How does HFF, now in its sixth year, stack up to other fringe fests? Sources say: comparable to NYC, but no match for Perth.
Modeling itself after Edinburgh, the Hollywood Fringe Festival may be bigger than ever, but the shows are still small, scrappy and uncurated.
Plays in Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab go from seedling to sapling. The town’s new-play scene, and the appetite for it, is growing, too.
One week each year, a Nebraska campus becomes a hub for playwrights to rekindle camaraderie and dreams—oh, and present some fierce new work.
The site for the 2015 TCG conference is a city on the rebound, and Cleveland Play House and Cleveland Public Theatre are key players in the upsurge.
In theatricalizing a genre well represented on film and TV, the one-act festival highlights the form’s unique storytelling value.
Featuring an uneasily eclectic bag of themes, this year’s new-play festival tackles Black History Month, labor unions and Alzheimer’s.
Among the offerings at South Coast Rep’s influential new work fest this year were plays inspired by its astonishing diversity.
The Texas troupe’s epic ‘Wars of Heaven’ trilogy sets out to tackle all of human, and divine, history. No wonder they’re leaders on the local and national puppetry scene.
A collection of not-so-straight plays, an ensemble-devised work and an African-American living-room play made up the main slate at Actors Theatre’s annual new-play gathering.