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God forbid I overlooked anything...!
Though the Voodoo Mystere Lounge isn't an official Fringe venue, it boasts a fair amount of Fringe programming, including two world premieres--one by a NYC-based troupe--as well as new or customized entries by local favorites.
Address for all shows is 718 North Rampart (at Orleans).
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New York City based Firebrand Theory Theater Co., internationally praised as "always impassioned, always authentic" and "invigorating, adventurous theatre," presents the world premiere of SIMPLE, a quirky original play.
SIMPLE is the story of Peregrine De Soto, a street corner promoter despondent in a personal hell. Driven to a ...Read More
God forbid I overlooked anything...!
Though the Voodoo Mystere Lounge isn't an official Fringe venue, it boasts a fair amount of Fringe programming, including two world premieres--one by a NYC-based troupe--as well as new or customized entries by local favorites.
Address for all shows is 718 North Rampart (at Orleans).
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New York City based Firebrand Theory Theater Co., internationally praised as "always impassioned, always authentic" and "invigorating, adventurous theatre," presents the world premiere of SIMPLE, a quirky original play.
SIMPLE is the story of Peregrine De Soto, a street corner promoter despondent in a personal hell. Driven to a lonely adventure in search of solace, Peregrine endures bizarre encounters in the after-hours of the urban landscape.
The dark and eccentric storyline is intended for mature audiences. SIMPLE, written by Jaime Robert Carrillo, is also an official selection of the Classical Theatre of Harlem Future Classics Program.
Featuring live music, the production is directed by Kate Marks. Calling her a "superb director," The New York Times writes that her work "[manages] a tone that teeters effectively between the tragic and the hilarious." The cast features Alexandra Grossi, Ali Skye Bennet, Andrew Zimmerman, D.M. Salsberg, Jaime Robert Carrillo, and Michael Jones. Set design is by Bill Pierce, costume design by Jessica Pabst. Sound design, Kate Marks and D.M. Salsberg.
Firebrand Theory Theater Company has been called "always impassioned and always authentic" by the Irish Times. Besides its NYC home seasons, the company has produced throughout the U.S. and abroad, including in Dublin, Winnipeg, and Minneapolis. This summer, TimeOut New York magazine awarded four stars to Firebrand's New York fringe production about homeless father-and-son poets and called the piece "a stark, sobering commentary on the plight of many African-Americans."
Opening night, November 13 at 7:00 p.m. Then November 14 & 15 at 7:00 p.m., November 15 & 16 at 4:00 p.m.
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SkyMall. You’ve read it. You’ve wondered, “Does anyone really buy this crap?” Nancy Hartman White examines this and other gnawing questions of taste in her tour-de-force Power Point extravaganza SKYMALL, inspired by the in-flight catalog. A light snack will be served.
Nancy Hartman White performed her one-woman show, Smart Women, Stupid Choices, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. New Orleans credits include Ruth in Collected Stories at the Alamo Underground, and the Mayor’s Wife in Cripple Creek Players production of The Inspector General. She will reprise the role of Madame LeBeau in the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane’s production of As You Like It in January.
“It’s impossible not to like Nancy White.” – The Scotsman, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Opening night, November 14 at 10:45 p.m. Then November 15 at 10:45 p.m., November 16 at 9:00 p.m. __________________________________________________________________
THE ROUND PEGS are a musicians collective led by writer/comedian/ educator P.H. Fred. FRED. Band members include Cranston Clements, Stephen Randall, and Jan Clements, as well as a plethora of guest peggers. "ESKIMO vs. PIE" EP in stores in December, and the full length CD THE ROUND PEGS PLAY FOR A SQUARE WORLD" is due April, 2009.
BROWN! improv is New Orleans longest running improv show, a late-night tradition since 1994. Seen at Movie Pitchers, True Brew Cafe, and now PJ's in Elmwood. Short form improv with Kenneth LaFrance, Kelli Rosher, Steve "The Rick" Shaw, and P.H. Fred.
Together their show is BROWN PEGS.
Sunday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m.
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Sally Asher explores Catholicism, Mythology and Strippers in MONEY IN THE GARTER, featuring Lauren Andress, Cyd Casados, Lacey Coffey, Victoria Coy, Monica Ferroe, Mikko, Rudy San Miguel and Veronica Russell.
Neophyte Mae Carter tries to sashay along the delicate tightrope of survival and success: tactful responses to nauseating come-ons, fantasies regarding hat-wearing mules, and negotiations involving wads of cash and cat o’nine tails. Along her enigmatical journey, Mae’s assisted by a Greek Chorus who educate her on: The Six Different Types of Boob Jobs, How to Shave Your Crotch for the First Time, and most importantly, The God and Goddesses of Strip Clubs.
Sunday, November 16 at 1:00 p.m.
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Theatre Louisiane remounts wondrous MOON COVE, one performance only
David Cuthbert's full review, 29 Aug 08:
Have you ever heard someone paint a verbal picture so persuasively that you are drawn into a glistening web of words, held by an evanescent story and the sound of the speaker's voice?
Actress-writer Amy Woodruff creates an atmosphere of foreboding in "Moon Cove, " her ghostly Acadian monologue at the Voodoo Mystere Theater Lounge. The intimate environs of the compact stage space are perfect for this hushed, haunting tale of a glowing apparition, multi-generational sightings, sudden death and a sense of otherworldly wonder.
Woodruff, an intense young woman in black, a silver religious medal at her throat, establishes southwest Louisiana as a world apart, so removed, so lush and dangerously inviting, that you believe anything might happen where "Le Prairie Grande" gives way to dark forests and devouring swamps.
Woodruff enters playing a mournful Cajun tune on a violin, imparting an elegiac tone even before she speaks. She is a lone, corporeal figure against a spectral backdrop of eerily bare, green country landscapes, projected on a sheet behind her. The lighting sometimes makes her a silhouette, or allows her to be seen only by votive candles, which she ritually lights in the manner of All Hallows' Eve Masses in cemeteries.
Donning a black veil, she becomes a wraithlike symbol of death itself as she casts her spell of a story about a soul-snatching ghoul who rolls out of the blackness like luminescent swamp gas, enticing the unwary.
Since it's a work-in-progress, Woodruff should consider that in such close quarters, she needs props that look authentically old, a simpler, weathered farmhouse chair and slide imagery that becomes less realistic and more abstract as she goes deeper into her atmospheric reverie.
Woodruff knows that one shouldn't linger over the ephemeral and that such dramatic alchemy is best served by brevity. She's on and gone in less than an hour, but alters your mood for the rest of the evening.
Saturday, November 15 at 9:00 p.m.
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Ryan Bruce and his short-form improv troupe, ORPHANED ON PURPOSE--the longest-running, most successful production of the Voodoo Mystere's short history--wanted to be part of the Fringe Fest. So Ryan promised to make that night's show especially peculiar.
Thursday, November 13 at 10:00 p.m.
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