Check it all out below! Shows below include those in Fringe-managed venues and in venues that artists manage, called Bring Your Own Venue or BYOV. (What is BYOV? Click here to find out.). All shows accept Fringe tickets.
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Performing Group: NEW NOISE
From: New Orleans
Genre: Multi-Disciplinary Performance
The adults have all disappeared, seduced by the siren song of war. In a reverse Pied Piper, the children remain, burdened by memory but lacking comprehension. Three kids traverse the crumbling infrastructure of America, seeking a way to bring about the end, to bring about the beginning - to arrive home. |
Venue: Candle Factory (BYOV)
Shows: 11/13 7:30 pm,
11/14 7:30 pm,
11/15 7:30 pm |
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Performing Group: Nana Projects
From: Baltimore
Genre: Overhead Projector Shadow Puppetry
Madness, passion and sabotage are intertwined in the newest show by Baltimore based visual alchemists, Nana Projects. Inspired by the Hagenback-Wallace circus train wreck of 1918, Alonzo’s Lullaby is a luminous, richly-hued, shadow puppet play for adults, with original score performed by singer/songwriter ellen cherry. Funded by the Jim Henson Foundation. |
Venue: Backyard Ballroom
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm,
11/14 11:00 pm,
11/15 7:00 pm
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Performing Group: ARUGULA
From: New Orleans
Genre: Puppetry
Arugula is a death-glam-core band hailing from Hell, Germany. Their world tour has been interrupted while in the U.S. due to the sudden death of their drummer. They are currently in New Orleans holding drummer auditions and working a dance troupe into their live performance. |
Venue: Hi-Ho Lounge
Show: 11/14 9:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Keen-Amity Publishing and Entertainment
From: New Orleans
Genre: Musical
A Music Video on Stage is the best description for this visually stunning tribute to Erykah Badu. Four talented performers, Zena Moses, Stylist B, Jeanetta Thomas and Juliette Ducre will wow audience members with song and skits motivated by the rousing lyrics of “The Queen of Neosoulfunkinizms.” A Must See! |
Venue: Marigny Theatre
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/14 11:00 pm, 11/15 7:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Jonathan Freilich Presents
From: New Orleans
Genre: Multimedia/Opera Buffa/ Theatre/ Dance
A comic opera about New Orleans lawyers perusing local bars. They expose their vestigial class conflicts from a crumbling society and expose more in the women at the receiving end of their litigious leers. Come be exposed!- to hilarious theater/dance/opera delivered by notable artists in three interwoven forms. |
Venue: St. Ferdinand Church
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/14 9:00 pm, 11/15 5:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Tally-Ho Daredevils
From: New Orleans
Genre: Musical Comedy
Come slide down the rabbit hole to a world of romance and realization. You will get to shake your bunny tail to the thump, thump, thump of looooooooove. Hold on to your ears and rears as you are transported to the underground for a sensory explosion with the rockin rabbits. The Tally-Ho Daredevils bring you love, chaos and brilliant stupidity. |
Venue: Marigny Theatre
Shows: 11/11 9:00 pm, 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Bloody Noes
From: Rochester NY
Genre: Cryptic Revival
Bloody Noes are two archetypal characters whose hypnotic, often hilarious activities straddle ritual and pantomime. “American Dream” dissects our nation’s history, future, and fundamental ideals, in dream-like scenarios that shift suddenly into pop & noise musical numbers. Wildly disparate elements come together into a harmonious, unspeakable whole. Super-fun. |
Venue: Backyard Ballroom
Shows: 11/13 7:00 pm, 11/14 9:00 pm, 11/15 3 pm |
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Performing Group: Makoto Hirano / OMNiBUS
From: Philadelphia
Genre: Dance, Theatre, Poetry, Comedy, Hip Hop, Solo
A flashback, to right now. Truth, no magic. The self, seen in exploded-view. Dope rhymes. A funny story. Ideas, identities, and honest conversations. You’ll find them all on this tour. But it’s not a free-for-all. This Philly cat will do the entertaining -- it’ll be up to you to do the thinking and stuff. “...beautiful use of periodic silence, like urban grit bordering on Japanese butoh dance.”
- Jane Vranish, Pittsburgh Post Gazette |
Venue: Backyard Ballroom
Shows:11/11 9:00 pm, 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm |
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Performing Group: The LeRoy Sisters
From: New York City
Genre: Physical Clown-Theatre
As the Vaudeville era closes, the sensational LeRoy Sister-Act careens toward catastrophe. A “hilarious” (ThreeWeeks) carnival of dance, song, knife throwing, gorillas, and melodrama that swings and stomps along the edge of farce and drama. “Mutant genius” (PragueTV) -- “Best comedy I’ve seen at the Fringe.” (PraguePost) -- TimeOutNY “Weekend Pick” 9/4/09 |
Venue: Skull Club
Shows: 11/13 7:00 pm, 11/14 11:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Skin Horse Theater
From: New Orleans
Genre: Drama
Curiouser entwines the disparate histories of Sylvia Plath, a suicidal poet plagued by the threat of domesticity; Lewis Carroll, a lonely writer in love with the fantasy of childhood; and his muse, Alice Liddell, confronting the pain of growing up. This encounter challenges their views of the wondrous and mundane. |
Venue: Peter's Piano Place
Shows: 11/11 9:00 pm, 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/15 7:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Moose Jackson
Performing Group City: New Orleans
Genre: Rock cabaret
Poet Rev. Moose Jackson presents the tale of a down-and-out punk who finds rock and roll salvation on the dark carnival streets of New Orleans. A home-brewed rock cabaret.
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Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/13 9:00 pm, 11/14 11:00 pm, 11/15 7:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Theatrapy
From: New Orleans
Genre: Drama
A touching story about loss: --of memory, of a child—DRIVE is the true story of a surreal moment in the author’s life. Harkening back to the roots of theater as therapeutic storytelling, a post-performance discussion of Alzheimer’s, loss, death, and coping strategies continues and deepens the healing experience. |
Venue: Peter's Piano Place
Shows: 11/11 7:00 pm, 11/13 9:00 pm, 11/14 11:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Blacklisted Theatre Company
From: New Orleans
Genre: Theatre
Bobby is a married neurotic wreck. His friend Sam is a recovering alcoholic. When Bobby gets drunk on an airplane and meets an intriguing woman, he makes a mistake that affects his friendships and his marriage. Written by Jared Gore. Starring Jared Gore, Elizabeth Gore, Kevin Songy, Rebecca Laborde. Directed by Lisa Picone. |
Venue: Skull Club
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Adam Falik
From: New Orleans
Genre: Drama
Five characters testify their part in a conspiracy to perform a play in which a woman carries a human head down a flight of stairs. Five separate monologues conjoin into a panoramic narrative in which the workings of artistic ambition, politics, sexual blackmail, and inner-city survival are woven. |
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm
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Performing Group: HyperDome
From: New Orleans, Cleveland, New York City
Genre: Various and multidimensional
The HyperDome is a collection of performing artists creating space at the edge of Human Experience and Intention. Utilizing Random acts of Artistic Madness including but not limited to: Sacred Geometry, Ritual Magick, Video Projection, Dance, Fire, Sexuality, Sideshow Artistry, Music and Suspension. Come witness the Fringe of the Fringe.
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Venue: Gallery D'Po-Boy Dome (BYOV)
Show: 11/14 Dusk to dawn on following day |
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Performing Group: Rebellion Dogs Productions
From: New York / New Orleans
Genre: Romance Noire
Romantic interludes, love sonnets, and legendary love stories weave a modernist chronicling of matters of the heart that, like great love affairs, is silly and serious, comic but tragic, out of time and timely as it flows from first dates to married life and from whispers of sweet nothings to murder and sweet revenge. |
Venue: Marigny Theatre
Shows: 11/11 7:00 pm, 11/13 9:00 pm, 11/15 3:00 pm |
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Performing Group: The Academy Theatre Featuring Sharon Mathis
From: Avondale Estates, Georgia
When her soul mate Sam becomes Sheila, Pat asks "Does his soul live in his penis? Is there ever a good day to leave your marriage?" Pat tries tap dancing, Buddhism, and shopping to find out. Audiences call this one woman drama/comedy "marvelous" and "essential". |
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm, 11/15 3:00 pm |
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Performing Group: American Theatre Project
From: New Orleans
Genre: Comedy
Are life and death two of humankind’s most challenging situations? Is there life after death? How important is “quality of life?” Is there a personal heaven or hell to face in the hereafter? These questions and more are tackled in four witty ten-minute plays directed New Orleans' own, Ed Bishop. |
Venue: Backyard Ballroom
Shows: 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm |
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Performing Group: FREEFALL
From: New York City
Genre: Dance-Theater
Darkly comic, extravagantly physical, rumination on the themes of love, war and justice. "The New York-based troupe follows in the absurdist footsteps of Beckett and Weill by employing a menacing vaudevillian style…urgent in a rambunctious-sad way. Performers are lovely and engaging even as frightening truths brew underneath." —Chicago Tribune. All ages. |
Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/11 9:00 pm, 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/13 7:00 pm, |
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Performing Group: ArtSpot Productions and Mondo Bizarro
From: New Orleans
Genre: Environmental performance
Local award-winning performance innovators ArtSpot Productions and Mondo Bizarro, in collaboration with the Gulf Restoration Network and City Park, present Loup Garou, a new environmental performance that uses rigorous physicality, poetry, music and visual installation to investigate the deep interconnectedness between land and culture in Louisiana. |
Venue: City Park, Old East Golf Course (BYOV)
11/13 3:00 pm
11/14 3:00 pm*
11/15 3:00 pm
*On 11/14, a bus leaves at 2 pm from the Fringe Festival Tent (at the corner of Press and Dauphine).
Bus will return after show at approximately 5:30. Bus capacity: 44.
For reservations (504) 826-7783 or info@artspotproductions.org
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Performing Group: Stupid Time Machine
From: New Orleans
Genre: Comedy
So many things to fear these days: STD’s, online stalkers, vampires and their ruthless cousins – Wall Street bankers. Blending live sketch, video, and song, La Nuit Theater's bold new comedy ensemble, Stupid Time Machine, takes our deepest fears, de-pantses them, and laughs heartily in their faces. Join in on this satirical romp through a recession-soaked world where anything - hell, everything - can kill you. |
Venue: La Nuit Theatre (BYOV)
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm,
11/13 7:00 pm,
11/14 7:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Bearinglight Butohdance Theatre
From: Birmingham, Alabama
Genre: Performing Art
Stir the imagination, mind, and psyche, at the first ever HOUSE OF BUTOH at the Fringe! Deborah’s Butoh has been described as “watching a dream come to life” and “A fantastic visual experience, a performer in complete immersion”, fearlessly exploring birth, life, death, consciousness, ancient myth, religion, ritual, and social themes such as racism, labor rights and environmental degradation.
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Venue: Gallery D'Po-Boy (BYOV)
Shows:
11/12 7:30 pm, 9:00 pm, 10:00 pm;
11/13 7:30 pm, 9:00 pm, 10:00 pm;
11/14 7:30 pm, 9:00 pm, 10:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Cripple Creek Theater Company and Goat in the Road Productions
From: New Orleans
Genre: Theater
The Finest Liniment in the several states, Major Archibald Swelling's Salvation Salve is sure to cure Apathy, Corruption, Greed, Dysentery, Sore Throat, Poverty, Hunger, Consumption, Anger, Cynicism, Nervousness, Vague Paranoia and Death by Rejuvenating the Blood. (With Music) |
Venue: Marigny Theatre
Shows: 11/13 7:00 pm, 11/14 9:00 pm, 11/15 5:00 pm |
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An allegorical black comedy concerning the Vodoun god of sex, death, and resurrection as he struggles with a pair of warring young urban developers in competition for the redesigning/rebuilding of New Orleans; one is an uber-eco-warrior, the other a corporate businessman, both viciously attached to emotions from a past affair.
Performing Group: Gods and Gaters Theatre
Performing Group City: New Orleans
Genre: Black Comedy
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Venue: Backyard Ballroom
Shows:11/11 7:00 pm, 11/13 9:00 pm, 11/15 5:00 pm |
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Performing Group: NORD/NOBA Center For Dance Company
From: New Orleans
Genre: Dance
Founded in 1992, this group has been recognized by the White House and has performed nationally, including at Piccolo Spoleto, the Kennedy Center , and Jacob’s Pillow. The company will perform Alfred Dove’s In the Spirit of U, excerpts from Robert Battle’s Alleluia, The Heart to Hurt Ratio by Meredith Early, and Beautiful Subdivisions by Maritza Mercado-Narcisse. |
Venue: St. Ferdinand Church
Shows:11/13 7:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 3:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Alex Mercedes, Artemis Preeshl, Dennis Jones
From: New Orleans
Genre: Spoken Word
Join us for a night of the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir and other mystical poets. Dennis Jones recites, Alex Mercedes sings, and Artemis Preeshl performs. The audience is encouraged to present their favorites also. All ages. FREE |
Venue: Morro Castle (BYOV),
1303 Burgundy # 5
Show: 11/13 7:00 pm-10:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Acting Up (in Acadiana)
From: Lafayette, LA
Genre: Drama
PLAY. MUSIC. HEAL.: neo-traditional struggles, South Louisiana, a wealthy political family, an offshore worker, his pregnant girlfriend, a festival dancer who does pet funerals, and a vegan butcher tell individual stories without listening to each other. If “you can change the world with only three chords”, will they ever listen? |
Venue: Peter's Piano Place
Shows:11/13 7:00 pm, 11/14 9:00 pm, 11/15 3:00 pm |
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Performing Group: The Black Forest Fancies
From: New Orleans
Genre: Historical Fiction, Puppet Aerial Musical
The tale of Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman, an American folk hero whose wholesome mythos is complicated by the esoteric fact of his thwarted engagement to a ten year old girl. Onto the backdrop of the American Eden, we graft the figures of Dionysus, Snow White, Cain and Abel and the Big Bad Wolf. |
Venue: St. Ferdinand Church
Shows:11/11 9:00 pm, 11/14 11:00 pm, 11/15 7:00 pm |
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Performing group: George Contini
From: Athens, GA
Genre: Solo Performance
A MAN-ACTRESS WITH AMBITION! Actor George Contini brings to life the forgotten legend Female Impersonator Julian Eltinge. Facing debt and obscurity, an aging Eltinge recalls his fame in Vaudeville, Broadway, and Silent Film while the world begins to view him more as a Perversion than an Artist. Presenting the first re-creation of Eltinge’s stage routines and rare archival footage, this multi media performance examines the dark fluidity of Eltinge’s sexual persona and its ability to ultimately offer him salvation. |
Venue: Skull Club
Shows: 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/14 9:00 pm, 11/15 5:00 pm |
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Performing group: Jazz Hand Job
From: Providence, Rhode Island
Genre: Totally hard
A swamp procession leads you into an underworld of murderous pigeons, marauding temptresses, and malevolent priests as a crackpot wedding turns into mayhem. Rigorous Disco of Doom features feasting zombies, exploding mirror balls, and suits of sound. This dark dance of comedy is by turns gruesome and jubilant; a sepulchral story of love, lust and lascivious last rites. |
Venue: St. Ferdinand Church
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/13 9:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Alix Angelis
From: New Orleans
Genre: Dark Comedy, Multimedia
Miss V welcomes you to her sitting room for tea.* Please make yourself at home. She just stepped out for a minute to attempt suicide. – This dark comedy splashes through the last days of Virginia Woolf. Quirky, dry humor that is slightly bitter, but never cynical, this one woman show uses elements of film and music to explore the mind and wrangle the genius of Miss V. *actual tea and cookies will be served. |
Venue: 2803 Dauphine St. in the Marigny
Shows: 11/11 7pm, 9pm
11/12 7pm, 9pm
11/13 7pm, 9pm
11/14 2 pm, 7pm, 9pm
11/15 2 pm, 7pm, 9pm |
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Performing group: Shelby Company
From: New York City
Genre: Comedy
In an anonymous city two strangers form an unlikely connection, a best man gives a wedding toast no one will forget, and a scientist delivers a lecture on the anti-door--a portal to an opposite universe where life’s troubles are inverted. Through hilarious and heartbreaking monologues, SAY SAY OH PLAYMATE examines men who are all just looking for a playmate. |
Venue: Skull Club
Shows: 11/11 7:00 pm, 11/13 9:00 pm, 11/15 3:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Chard Gonzalez Dance Theatre
From: New Orleans
Genre: Dance – Improvisation – Physical Theatre
Sensitive Boys emphasizes the nature and aesthetic of men that show vulnerability. The cast of 6 dancers perform with the ingenious video projections by Elektrik Zoo and music composed by Mike Rihner. “One of last year’s most memorable performances was ‘and/or’ by Chard Gonzalez” (Lindsay Dreyer, Dancer Magazine)
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Venue: Michalopoulos Studio (BYOV)
527 Elysian Fields, NOLA 70117
Shows: 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/12 9:00 pm,
11/13
7:00 pm, 11/13 9:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Crescent City Kings, Rev. Spooky and Her Billion Dolllar Baby Dolls, Slow Burn Collective and friends
From: New Orleans
Genre: Performance art, drag, burlesque, comedy
Throw away your stale misconceptions of drag and burlesque! Witness a spectacle like none other! Theatrical drag kings and modern burlesque beauties will shatter your boundaries, tempt you from your comfort zone, and spin you right to the blurry edges where the fantastic freaks play. Let your inner freak out! Ages 18 & up. |
Venue: Bourbon Pub (BYOV)
801 Bourbon
Show: 11/14 8:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Morella & The Wheels Of If & Choreographer Kettye Voltz
From: New Orleans
Genre: Musical Theatre
A tale washed ashore about a girl and her struggle to find truth. A moon sends her true love, a mysterious dr. tries to destroy her happiness, and always she clings to her ship. Might she be insane? Told with live music, fantastic dancing, original films & acting. |
Venue: St. Ferdinand Church
Shows:11/12 7:00 pm, 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Jean Ann Douglass
From: New York City
Genre: Multimedia Performance
This is a show about diaries, but people put those on YouTube nowadays and call them vlogs. Hailed as “the best show I’ve seen” at FringeNYC by nytheatre.com, seastm is a “sharply smart” (curtainup.com) multimedia production that explores how we create our own legacy before we’ve done anything worth remembering.
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Venue: Marigny Theatre
Shows: 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm |
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Performing Group: La Nuit Comedy Theater ensemble dir. by Yvonne Landry
From: New Orleans
Genre: Comedy/Cult Classic
Blood, semen, breast milk, and pom-poms, oh my! Three bodacious alien robot cheerleaders land in three unforgettable nerds’ living room, and the wildly funny, B-movie-licious “part-scripted/part-improvised romp” begins! Voted Best Special Effects 2009 by Ambush Magazine, we recommend you wear white and by all means, sit in the front row. |
Venue: La Nuit Theatre (BYOV)
Shows: 11/12 11:00 pm,
11/13 9:00 pm,
11/14 9:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Scary Toesies
From: New Orleans
Genre: Puppetry/ Performance Art
Last year they brought you the wizard-laden "HORF, HOAF, MAUB". Scary Toesies returns to New Orleans Fringe with "SUD SCREED" wherein an innocent seance at the beach leads to sheeeeeer madness!! Plus the always AASOME SOUNDTRAXX! "....what fevered, deformed brain could have concocted such a pantomime of insanity?" Ages 18 & up. |
Venue: Hi-Ho Lounge
Shows: 11/13 7:00 pm, 11/14 11:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Devin Keast
From: Chicago, IL
Genre: Solo performance
Sunshineface is Devin Keast's one-man show that pays homage to Broadway, The Second City, late night talk shows, and the one that got away. "Like a good comic, Keast creates a rapport with the audience that makes you glad you came." -kcactive.com, Kansas City
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Venue: Skull Club
Shows: 11/11 9:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 7:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Reptilian Theater
From: New York/Orleans
Genre: Comedy
“Tragedy + Distance” = A night of unequivocal comedy that premieres short, original plays so horrifically entertaining that you'll never know when to laugh or when to call your mother. Watch murder, exorcism, the mispronunciation of hard-to-say-words and other horrors all from the comfort and distance of your seat. Ages 18 & up. |
Venue: Peter's Piano Place
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm, 11/15 5:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Artist Inc.
From: New Orleans
Genre: Cabaret, Multi Media, Performance Art
Un Route is an old fashioned, new world, troubadours rolling into town show. A variety of artists gather for a multimedia, cabaret, performance art extravaganza including theater, dance, circus, music, film, magic, fire, visual art installations, audience participation and a throw down party! |
Venue: Michalopoulos Studio (BYOV)
527 Elysian Fields, NOLA 70117
Shows: 11/14 doors @ 9:00 pm, show @ 10:00 pm |
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Performing group: Theatre is Gay Productions
From: Baton Rouge
Genre: LGBTQ and Horror/Comedy
Peter and Jillian are the perfect couple living the perfect life on a perfect night. Until… “You can run but not forever!” There is an evil infecting society. An evil so absurd and perverse you don’t dare let it into your mind! And once it courses through your body, once it penetrates your mind you can never go back. What happens if you come catch The Vibe? Ages 18 & up. |
Venue: Peter's Piano Place
Shows: 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm |
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Performing Group: Moving Stories/ANGELA'S PULSE Performance Projects
From: New Orleans/New York
Genre: Dance
Co-curated by Moving Stories (New Orleans) and Angela's Pulse (New York), this evening of multi-dimensional dance works illuminates women's embodied struggles, hopes and truths...reclaiming the infinite power of women. Ages 18 & up. |
Venue: McKenna Museum (BYOV),
2003 Carondelet Street
Show: 11/14 doors 7:30 pm
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ARUGULA
Be My Bunny
Sensitive Boys
Splatterhouse Theater
SUD SCREED
The Vibe with The Rainbow Candidate
Women and Power: (Re) Moved and (Re) Claimed