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Fringe Festival this weekend

July 27, 2006 |

Kansas City’s second annual Fringe Festival starts tonight and runs through Sunday at various venues throughout the greater Downtown area, from the River Market to the Crossroads.  Keep reading for festival highlights from Present Magazine.

KC Fringe Festival Highlights

July 27, Thursday - July 30, Sunday
Please check out www.kcfringe.org for festival highlights, schedule changes, ratings, and additional listings.


Allswell Variety Show
July 27, Thursday, 8 PM
July 28, Friday, 6:30 PM
July 29, Saturday, 8 PM
Written by Carissa Shillito. Sketches, musical numbers and a special musical guest in a 100% original formula that makes you feel good. Energizes listless adults and soothes rambunctious children.
Arts Incubator
115 West 18th Street
www.artsincubatorkc.org

Barclay Martin Ensemble
July 29, Saturday, 6:30-8 PM
The Barclay Martin Ensemble is a quartet comprised of musicians whose influences range from singer/songwriter folk to Latin jazz. Known for their high-energy performances, the ensemble offers up a fresh and distinctive acoustic sound with fine musicianship.
Central Library, Kirk Hall
14 West 10th Street
www.barclaymartin.com

Bindings
July 28, Friday, 9:30 PM
July 29, Saturday, 8 PM
July 30, Sunday, 5 PM
Musical inspired by the book spines art work of the downtown Library District Parking Garage. Written by Allen and Peggy Epstein, directed by Cheri Buie. Starring Damon Russel Armstrong, Dustin Cates, Karen Garcia, Nancy Nail, and Julie O’Rourke. Musical accompaniment by Beth McLenaghan.
Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium
14 West 10th Street

Cairo on the Kaw - Lights, Camera, Action
July 28, Friday, 9:30 PM
July 29, Saturday, 3:30 & 6:30 PM
A Middle Eastern dance created by Anne Singo-Hargis with company member contributions.
Just Off Broadway
3051 Central
hometown.aol.com/gaziyeh

Comedy with the Coterie’s Updog’s Special Friends
July 28, Friday, 8 PM
July 29, Saturday, 9:30 PM
July 30, Sunday, 3:30 PM
The Coterie Theatre’s audacious teen comedy troupe, Updog’s Special Friends, will present three original and outrageous comedies by the Coterie’s Young Playwright’s Roundtable including Conversation Piece, by Ruth Babb; A Wife’s Tale, by Sheristen James; and Full Letter Jacket, by Justing Mohn.
1184 Oak
www.coterietheatre.org

Kacico Dance presents Sit, Stand, Walk, Speak, and Play
July 28, Friday, 9:30 PM
July 29, Saturday, 6:30 PM
July 30, Sunday, 2 PM
A continuous, diffusive dance performance combined with video, music, and set. Performance happens all around the audience and the audience is encouraged to move during the performance.
Arts Incubator
115 West 18th Street
www.kacicodance.org

Negro Scoe
July 29, Saturday, 11 PM
Originally from Southern California, Negro Scoe, aka Dante Evergalde, established the Hip Hop Addicts crew in 1994. Since relocating to Kansas City eight years ago, he has recorded and performed. In addition to being a founding member of The Cosigners, Scoe is also an instructor at the Hip Hop Academy where he teaches area youth the basics of poetry and emceeing at the Creative Minds Art Center
Pi Gallery
419 East 18th Street
www.danteeverglade.com
www.piartgallery.com

Ernest James and the Zydeco Jubilee
July 28, Friday, 6:30 PM
Lively music beloved by all ages. Put some spice on your dance moves with a three-piece band full of bayou boogie.
Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium/Rooftop
14 West 10th Street

Fishing for Laughs
July 29, Saturday, 2 & 3:30 PM
The Bassmeister, by Curt Strutz, is a puppet show about a fun and entertaining guy who brings the excitement of fishing into the lives of both children and adults, even if they don’t fish! Kids will learn fishing basics and get directly involved with demonstrations on stage. The show include a “Bass Beauty Pageant,” stinky stink bait, and teaching children critical thinking related to lure selection and water safety.
Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium
14 West 10th Street
www.thebassmeister.com

Forrest Whitlow
July 28, Friday, 6:30 PM
“David Lynch meets Neil Young” in the introspective, country-tinged balladry of this Kentucky bred local songsmith. Explore the darker side of the human psyche with musical tales of lust, murder, and despair.
Central Library, Kirk Hall
14 West 10th Street
www.forrestwhitlow.com

Missouri Valley Folklife Society Presents: Music & More
July 28, Friday, 8 PM
July 29, Saturday, 9:30 PM
July 30, Sunday, 3:30 PM
Multi-talented musicians Mike Dugger, Turlach Boylan, and Kelly Dougherty will showcase traditional Irish folk music.
Rimé Center
700 West Pennway
www.mvfs.org

Paper Boy Dreams

July 29, Saturday 8 PM
July 30, Sunday, 5 PM
Poetry by Timothy Pettet. Dreaming of customers walking up to the thump/of the morning paper, the crunch of his tires/ on the gravel, a paperboy wakes up with his face/ in a breeze, his legs pumping.
Rimé Center
700 West Pennway

How To Fake Clinical Depression
July 28, Friday, 8 PM
July 29, Saturday, 3:30 & 9:30 PM
July 30, Sunday, 3:30 PM
A comedy by Steven Marrocco. For the last three years, major pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer have been recruiting research subjects off of Craigslist Los Angeles to test new anti-depressants by offering them money in exchange for taking their drugs. See how a starved actor/bassist twisted the study to his own diabolical needs. Developed by Paul Stein, artistic director of the comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles, and directed by Shulie Cowen, an alum of Second City Chicago.
10 Main Center


Jeffrey Ward Photography
Jeffrey Ward, of Lawrence, KS, is a true traditionalist photographer, preferring black and white photographs and the film process. He has had his hand involved in every step of the process from taking the picture to developing the film to making the print in the darkroom.

Next to Grinders
415 East 18th Street

 

DJ Mythic, Deep Thinkers, Symbol Heavy, and Negro Scoe
July 29, Saturday, 6 PM-Midnight
Musical performance by featured acts in the KC Fringe Festival.
Pi Gallery
419 East 18th Street
http://www.piartgallery.com

Higher Power
July 27, Thursday, 8 PM
July 28, Friday, 8 PM
July 29, Saturday, 5 PM
July 30, Sunday, 5 PM
Little Red Square presents a Sam Ryan drama directed by Chris Plante. Sex, drugs, rock & roll, and Catholicism collide in the lives of three Midwesterners as a last-ditch drug deal causes the undoing of family and friendships.
Just Off Broadway
3051 Central
www.littleredsquare.com


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1 Comment so far

  1. Latif Nasser on July 27, 2006 12:19 pm

    Come one, come all to the Kansas City Premiere of …

    THE STAR CHAMBER
    a comic and cosmic farce about
    truth, the universe & pudding

    “a piece of inspired lunacy”
    Brendan McNally, playwright, Ottawa Fringe Festival

    at the Arts Incubator
    Thursday 8PM
    Friday 6:30PM
    Saturday 11:00PM
    Sunday 3:30PM

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