The Bulldogs are Cheating

Kudos to Steve Martin for putting his money where his mouth is. An Oregon high school was forced to cancel a production of Martin’s play “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” due to typical American Christian/conservative idiocy about mature themes. Martin stepped in and helped them stage an off-campus performance at a nearby college   One [...]

I am a lion! — Well, sadly fringe is done for another year. I didn’t get to a record personal attendance (my best is still 24 or 25, I can’t remember) but I did get close with 23 different plays. As usual I went into the festival wondering if there was enough I truly wanted [...]

Personal fringe attendance has dropped a bit for me at this point in the week. Combination of shitty scheduling and personal tasks always seem to wipe out one or two days in week 2 but this year is worse than most. Tuesday night I caught my favorite performance poet (not suprisingly a short list anyway) [...]

Ok, so it was an extra day. Yesterday was a nutso day of cooking and fringing. Post title courtesy of Phil the Void, not sure what’s up with the Jesus theme I generally just pick a funny line that sticks out in my memory of something I’ve seen the day before. Since my last entry [...]

Fringe has been amazing thus far, to the point where I’ve had no time at all to write anything til now. Sadly as is becoming routine I missed the first night of the festival due to a softball game. Thankfully I made up for with a quick hit for two thursday night and a solid [...]

If you’re one of the 3 people in the world who hasn’t seen this or heard about it yet… move your ass.

It’s almost Fringe time… A few days from now the area surrounding Winnipeg’s Old Market Square will be filled with Venue desks, theatregoers and food trucks. 12 straight days of theatre goodness for increasingly not low prices await the citizens of Winnipeg who haven’t fled to cottages or holidays. The program this year looks passable, [...]