Single White Fringe Geek

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Blogger Matthew A. Everett covers theater year-round, with a focus on the Minnesota Fringe Festival during the summers. Matthew is a playwright and three-time recipient of support from the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Located: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tags: Theater, Fringe Festival, Reviews, Playwriting, Top Ten, Top Twenty, Previews, The Short List

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Shameless Plug of the Day - Dramatists Guild/Playwrights Center Sunday Events on Oct 16, 2009 in The Short List A play of mine is being read at the Playwrights’ Center this Sunday, October 18th.If I’d typed that sentence sometime between 1994 and 2002, it wouldn’t seem all that strange.Typing it in 2009 seems pretty strange.But I’m happy to be typing i...



Shameless Plug of the Day - Vaudeville Extravaganza on Oct 13, 2009 in The Short List It's the final weekend for this event, and it's entertainment for a most worthy cause, so I thought I'd give it a shout-out. The artist involved is someone who did a really fine Fringe show back in 2005 - Swim Home - which removed a lot of the stigm...



Review - Good Boys - Minnesota Shakes - 3-1/2 stars on Sep 4, 2009 in Theater reviews "Don't worry. It's not loaded." (BANG) "I lied."How do you make sense of the unthinkable?How do you assign blame when there's no one to blame, and everyone's to blame?How do you forgive the unforgivable?These are all meaty questi...



Review - Phaedra's Love - Red Letter Theater - 3-1/2 stars on Aug 30, 2009 in Theater reviews “If only there’d been more moments like this...”An Open Letter to Select Fellow Audience Members...Dear Viewers of Phaedra’s Love,You were warned.Repeatedly.First of all, the script is based (loosely) on the legend of Phaedra and Hippolytus.



Shameless Plug of the Day - Good Boys on Aug 28, 2009 in The Short List Thanks, MinnesotaPlaylist.com, or I'd have never known this one was happening...The Minnesota Shakespeare Company is... not doing Shakespeare this month.Instead, they're doing a play by another playwright about whom there is a lot of speculation but...



Shameless Plug of the Day - Phaedra's Love (this weekend only) on Aug 26, 2009 in The Short List Another, yes another, scrappy little theater company rears its head in the Twin Cities this weekend. One weekend only, blink and you miss it.Red Letter Theater is the brain child of young director David Hanzal. And he's amassed some pretty interest...