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May 29, 2017 · 9:45 am

The 14th Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival Kick-Off Party! 

CFF_Kick Off Party logo.pngThe Know Theatre’s 2017 Cincinnati Fringe Festival (Cincy Fringe) begins next Tuesday, May 30 at 7pm with The 2017 Cincy Fringe Kick-Off Party! at Know Theatre (Fringe HQ, 1120 Jackson St 45202).

Fringe HQ is the place to be each night of the Festival, where we feature a special theme or event as part of the Fringe Bar Series, which provides artists, patrons, volunteers, and staff a place to join together over drinks, entertainment, and lite bites. For, Kick-Off, we’ve got some special treats in store:

7:30pm – Debut of the 2017 Channel Fringe Hard-Hitting Action News Update, a Kinda Weird, info-taining nightly newscast. Anchored by Fringe Producer, Chris Wesselman, and Know’s Artistic Director, Andrew Hungerford.

8-9pm – Enjoy a solid hour of laughs from Cincinnati’s premiere improvisational comedy group, OTRimprov (OTRi) (www.otrimprov.com). Frequent winners of various “Best of Cincinnati” Awards, OTRi rules Cincinnati comedy.

9:30pm – Experience a unique, outdoor, multi-sensory concert experience from local sonic explorers, Common Center (www.commoncentersounds.com), projection artist Scott Budd, and other local artists.

While admission for all other nightly Bar Series events is free, the Kick-Off Party features a $10 suggested donation for entry. For more information on Cincy Fringe, you can call our Box Office (513-300-5669) between 11am and 6pm daily or visit www.CincyFringe.com.

About the Fringe Festival: The 14th annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival, produced by the Know Theatre of Cincinnati, runs from May 30 – June 11, 2017. Fringe features 13 days of theatre, art, music, dance, and everything between — that’s Kinda Weird. Like You! With over 200+ performances of 50 productions geared towards every possible interest and age group, at Cincy Fringe there is something for everyone.

About The Know Theatre:  The Know showcases unexpected voices, new works, and plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic risks, creating work that is cutting edge and accessible.

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May 29, 2017 · 9:21 am

Cait Robinson Presents KATES at 14th Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival

CFF_katesCait Robinson presents Katharine Sherman’s KATES, a new fairy tale which will have its world premiere as part of the 14th annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival, June 2nd – 10th, 2017

Directed by Cait Robinson
Written by Katharine Sherman
Choreography by Carolyn Guido Clifford
Sound Design by Dan Dorff
Show Art by Gordon Stillman
Costume Crafts by Ruth Wartman

Cast: Ernaisja Curry, Candice Handy, Tatum Hunter, Taha Mandviwala, Bari Robinson & Kelsie Rae Slaugh

Performances:

1201 Main St. Cincinnati OH

  • Friday, June 2nd, 6:30 PM
  • Saturday, June 3rd, 9:00 PM
  • Tuesday, June 6th, 7:00 PM
  • Thursday, June 8th, 7:00 PM
  • Saturday, June 10th, at 2:45 PM

Click here to purchase tickets and passes.

 

About KATES
KATES is a new play that reimagines a fairy tale from the Orkney Islands in a surf rock dreamscape. Two stepsisters strike out on their own after one of them is bewitched with the head of a sheep by her jealous stepmother. On their way, they encounter fairy dances, enchantments, sick princes, and pirate queens.  Lyrical, whimsical, and strange, this play is an exploration of identity and sisterhood.

About the Artists
Cait Robinson is a freelance director and the resident assistant director at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Most recently, she directed Proclamation Project (American Repertory Theater), Winesburg, Ohio and Carrie (Stoneham Theatre), The Singularity (Science Fiction Theatre Company, featured in American Theatre online), Gideon’s Knot (Dramatic Repertory Company), and The Maids and 4.48 Psychosis (Portland Stage Company Studio Series). Favorite assistant directing credits: Jitney and Little Shop of Horrors (Cincinnati Playhouse) and Some Brighter Distance (City Theatre, Pittsburgh). She is a proud member of SDC and alumna of the Celebration Barn Theater’s devising intensive, Directors Lab West, and Bowdoin College. Up next: Lincoln Center Directors Lab and directing Pinocchio for Cincinnati Playhouse.

Katharine Sherman is a Minneapolis-based playwright whose work has been produced by the Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco, the Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis, and by a company she co-founded, Collective Unconscious Performance. Her next play is an adaptation of Leo Lionni’s SWIMMY, for very young audiences, for Stages Theater Company in Minnesota in August. BA: Bowdoin College. MFA: University of Iowa.

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May 25, 2017 · 2:37 pm

CFF17: FIGHT FOR 52¢

CFF_Fight for 52 logoFIGHT FOR 52¢
Part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival ’17
Coffee Emporium
Over-the-Rhine

Performed by Howard Petrick

V. R. Dunne’s whole life and character had prepared him for the Minneapolis truck drivers strike of 1934. The workers knew him as a good organizer, who smoked union-made cigarettes, was fond of the movies, didn’t get drunk, and was honest. He never raised his voice or wrote someone off without giving them a chance. The men followed his leadership and many of them, if the occasion offered, would be willing to die for him.

  • Wed, May 31 at 7:45pm
  • Sat, June 3 at 4:45pm
  • Sun, June 4 at 8:30pm
  • Fri, June 9 at 7pm
  • Sat, June 10 at 7pm

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May 22, 2017 · 2:18 pm

The Carnegie at Cincinnati Fringe Festival

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The Carnegie is excited to partner with The Mini Microcinema and Chase Public in the creation of a new, multi-media performance piece selected for the 2017 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The work features work by 30+ independent filmmakers, writers, actors, and artists.

TWO TRUTHS: NOTES ON THE CINEMATOGRAPHER is an avant-garde mixed media mashup of Robert Bresson’s celebrated book on film making. Audiences will choose between pairings of notes that probe the dividing line between film and theatre. For each note selected by the audience, a film or live scene created in response to that note will be shown. Every show will be different and every audience will have the opportunity to create a unique performance experience.

Show Dates

Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:45pm
Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 7:45pm
Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 4:45pm
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 7:45pm
Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 7:45pm

All screenings will take place at
The Mini Microcinema, at 1329 Main Street, Cicninnati, OH 45202

Tickets to screenings of TWO TRUTHS: NOTES ON THE CINEMATOGRAPHER are $15 and are available online at  www.cincyfringe.com.

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May 17, 2017 · 11:54 am

Gideon Productions Presents GOD OF OBSIDIAN as Part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival

Gideon Productions Presents
GOD OF OBSIDIAN

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World Premiere as Part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival!
Written by Mac Rogers
Directed by Jordana Williams

May 31st – June 5th at Gabriel’s Corner

Gideon Productions, the award-winning company behind the Cincy Fringe CityBeat Critic’s Pick Ligature Marks, will present the World Premiere of playwright Mac Rogers’ (The Honeycomb Trilogy; the global hit podcast The Message) dark fairy tale/drama GOD OF OBSIDIAN, May 31st to June 5th at Gabriel’s Corner as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The production will be directed by Jordana Williams (The Honeycomb Trilogy; Universal Robots) and will feature Rebecca Comtois (Viral; Crystal Skillman’s Geek! with Vampire Cowboys) and Mac Rogers (NYIT Outstanding Lead Actor Nominee for The Adventures of Nervous-Boy with Nosedive Productions).

You have to cross a bridge to get to Nathan’s house. Crossing in is easy. But crossing out – as Alice is about to discover – is almost impossible. GOD OF OBSIDIAN is a dark fairytale about a psychologically abusive relationship, as one woman seeks the story that will take her back across the bridge and set her free.

GOD OF OBSIDIAN will run May 31 at 9pm, July 2 at 7:45pm, June 4 at 2:45pm, and June 5 at 7:45pm, as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival at Gabriel’s Corner (Sycamore & Liberty, Cincinnati, OH, 45202)). Tickets ($15) may be purchased online at www.cincyfringe.com. The show will run 60 minutes with no intermission.

MAC ROGERS (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright and audio dramatist. His sci-fi thriller podcasts THE MESSAGE and LIFEAFTER were downloaded a combined 5 million times.  His plays include THE HONEYCOMB TRILOGY (New York Times and Backstage Critic’s Picks and winner of the NYIT Award for Best Premiere Production), VIRAL (winner of Outstanding Play at FringeNYC 2009), and UNIVERSAL ROBOTS (nominated for four New York Innovative Theatre awards). Mac’s plays have earned acclaim from The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Out New York, The New York Post, , and many others.

JORDANA WILLIAMS (Director) has directed numerous plays by Mac Rogers, including Ligature Marks (CityBeat Critic’s Pick), The Honeycomb Trilogy (NY Times and Time Out NY Critics’ Picks), Universal Robots and Viral. Other favorite directing work includes Kill Shakespeare at NY Comic Con 2012 and The Particulars with The Bridge Theater Company, FringeNYC.

REBECCA COMTOIS (Alice) previously worked with Mac Rogers and Jordana Williams on Ligature Marks (CityBeat Critic’s Pick), Viral (Winner of FringeNYC’s Outstanding Production of a Play) and The Honeycomb Trilogy (NY Times and Time Out NY Critics’ Picks).  Other notable roles include Minnie the Minotaur in Cystal Skillman’s Geek! (Vampire Cowboys), Jenny in James Comtios’ Infectious Opportunity (Nosedive Productions) and Mag in Taylor Mac’s The Hot Month with Carol Kane (Boomerang’s Legacy Reading Series).

Critical acclaim for Gideon Productions:

“Television is where you find complicated storytelling. Film is the home of epic sci-fi trilogies. Giant aliens are expensive. Mac Rogers’s “Honeycomb Trilogy,” a titanic story about humanity in crisis wedged into a small theater in Queens, laid waste to these truisms, and provided giddy, cerebral fun along the way.” The New York Times

“Mac Rogers—genre playwright extraordinaire—can rant like Sorkin, plot like Mamet, banter like Whedon and sting like a bee.”  Time Out New York

“This is full-on, unapologetic science fiction with a galactic-scale backdrop involving interstellar trips and an insectoid race.” New York Post

“One of the most intelligent and complex theatrical events of the year.” Flavorpill

“Both pitch-perfect science fiction about an alien occupation and a wrenching treatise on the state of humanity.” io9.com

GIDEON PRODUCTIONS crafts gripping plays that explore what’s strange about being human and what’s human about being strange, using familiar genres and cultural touchstones as a springboard to something wholly unexpected.

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