"Loon" by Wonderheads

“Loon” by Wonderheads

 So what tips can I offer, as the 10th Cincinnati Fringe Festival is about to begin? I’ve attended these annual round-ups of theater, dance, comedy, music, monologues and oddball unclassifiable performances for a decade, so I have accrued some modest authority. Of course, I can’t compare myself to Know Theatre’s team who pulls all this madness together — a crazy Rubik’s Cube of venues (10 of them this year) for more than 30 productions, each one presented maybe four or five times during a stretch of 12 days (May 29 to June 10 this year) — not to mention the behind-the-scenes tasks like providing housing for dozens of traveling performers and coordinating a boatload of volunteers.

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RICK PENDER has written about theater for CityBeat since its first issues in 1994. Before that he wrote for EveryBody’s News. From 1998 to 2006 he was CityBeat’s arts & entertainment editor. Retired...

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