LOU’S VIEWS: Combining the best of indoor and outdoor festivals
The model for how to blend the two to create event magic is Bloomington’s Lotus Festival, a world-class world music festival held in late September.
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LOU’S VIEWS: Notes from the 2015 Fringe
Local actor Brian Hartz called IndyFringe “a week-long cast party for the whole city with some shows in between.” Inevitably, questions are raised.
IndyFringe Festival breaks attendance record
Wrapping up Sunday, the 11-day performing arts festival downtown sold a total of 17,286 tickets for the 64 productions mounted.
LOU’S VIEWS: Indy Fringe for first-timers
The annual summer event continues to grow even as it continues to baffle the uninitiated. Here’s a guide to help you navigate
Ticket giveaway: IndyFringe VIP passes
Score tickets for every one of the 64 shows as well as an overnight stay at the Nestle Inn.
IndyFringe buys headquarters building
The organizer of the IndyFringe Festival bought the building it has rented for three years and is raising money to expand it.
IndyFringe audience grows
Thirty-eight percent of visitors to last month’s theater festival had never attended the event before.
LOU’S VIEWS: I’ve looked at Fringe from both sides now
For me, the biggest challenge in wearing the hats of both playwright and critic was not being able to fully embrace the camaraderie of the festival,
City gives $82,000 for IndyFringe theater project
The grant from the city’s parking meter fund will be used to rebuild a nearby alleyway, repair sidewalks and install access curbs at the organization’s theater building on Saint Clair Street.
Basiles back IndyFringe’s building acquisition
Gift kicks of $600,000 campaign to renovate, expand theater building.
LOU’S VIEWS: Home on the range for the holidays
Thoughts on this year’s holidays shows from the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Actors Theatre of Indiana, the Cabaret at the Columbia Club and more.
LOU’S VIEWS: Beyond the Fringe
Just going to Indy Fringe makes you a part
of it. It’s difficult to be a passive observer during the 10-day event, which ends Sunday.
IndyFringe Festival show spotlights teen relationships
The festival has added a play called “don’t u luv me?” that explores how signs of affection can morph into
controlling abuse through text messages.
You-review-it Monday
The final days of IndyFringe. The first weekend for “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” The first screenings of “Taking Woodstock.”
What did you do this weekend?
LOU’S VIEWS: Quality time on the Fringe
By definition, the non-juried IndyFringe festival has a crapshoot quality. My advice to new Fringe-goers is usually to
go to at least three shows and be fully prepared to hate at least one of them.
Indy Fringe part 4
More reviews from the Mass Ave. festival.Last night I only made it to one Indy Fringe show, due to my misreading of the program (my fault, not the designers). This
led to the last minute pick of “The Stetson Manifesto,” presented by Lebenon, Indiana’s Happy Holler Productions.
LOU’S VIEWS: Kondrat gives inspired performance in ‘Menagerie’ spoof
Playwright Christopher Durang can deliver hilarious results, but in the case of InterAction Theatre’s “Durang-O-Rama,” he
disappoints the audience with too much outrageous, exhausting behavior.
Year in review: 10 reasons I loved my job in ’08
Traditionally, as the year winds down, critics’ thoughts tend toward "best of the year" lists. But I’m feeling the need for
a more accurate label.
IndyFringe leads effort to build artists’ apartments
Indy Fringe executive director Pauline Moffat and Gary Reiter, a board member of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival
Inc., want to build an affordable live-work complex near Massachusetts Avenue.