Pelham Fringe
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What happened in the room and in the news.
, Pelham Examiner
Pelham Fringe Festival debut brings crowds to Pelham Picture House for weekend of music, comedy and fun
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What. A. Weekend!
To everyone who helped bring our inaugural Pelham Fringe Festival to life: CONGRATULATIONS!
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Packed on Friday, sold out on Sunday
The first Pelham Fringe Festival put five new plays, live music and improv on The Picture House stage on October 2 and 4. Friday was packed. Sunday sold out.
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Artist Spotlight: Carolyn Marie Wright
Actor, educator, director. On the field trip that started it, what she tells her students about being an artist, and how she found her way into a Pelham Fringe room.
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, MyHometownBronxville.com
Five Original 10-Minute Plays to Be Performed at Pelham Picture House on October 2 and 4: Link to Tickets
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, Pete Kramer
In scratching an itch to act, Pelham mom found Fringe benefits
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, Pelham Examiner
Pelham Fringe Festival–featuring 5 short plays–to launch on Picture House stage October 2, 4
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, BroadwayWorld
PELHAM FRINGE Festival to Debut at The Picture House With New Plays
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Inside the casting room
Cathy Reinking ran a hands-on TV and film casting session: actors on camera, played back, redirected, and taped again.
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Ten teams, one scene
Two actors and a director, ten minutes to rehearse, five minutes of Jill Friedman’s The Platform. Ten times over, and no two alike.
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The Rebeck weeks
It started with a table read of Loose Knit in February. It ended with nine brand-new plays, and with Theresa Rebeck herself on a screen talking to fifty people about how she works.
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Second Prime begins
A Pelham Fringe initiative for women playwrights 50+, launched by developing Joni Fritz’s one-act A Leave of Absence in one focused room.
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Last night was a home run
A packed room. No empty seats. Six brand new pieces on their feet for the first time. And they didn’t feel new. They felt ready.
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Last night had a charge to it
A packed room. Eight Shanley scenes brought to life at the table. Actors locked in. Writers leaning forward.
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Shakespeare, out loud
Laris Macario assigned scenes and coached actors through them, working with impulse, truth, and dedication to the language.
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The improv toolkit
Jim Ewing put experienced improvisers and complete beginners through the same exercises, aimed at building scripted characters from the inside out.
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Five writers, ten minutes each
10 Minute Plays Night: new work by Susan Courtney, Neil Friedland, Joni Fritz, Jeff Fuerst, and Tara Meddaugh, read for the room.
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Watching a director work
Lin Snider took scenes from Kaufman and Hart’s Merrily We Roll Along through repeated readings, with the audience in the room for all of it.
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Fuerst Fest
An evening of staged readings of Jeffrey B. Fuerst’s short plays, including the first time Go Time was read aloud in front of a room.
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Thirty-two people showed up
Kate McDaniel put up a post on Facebook on October 13. Sixteen days later, thirty-two people sat down around a table to read August: Osage County.
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