See the list of coverage from 2005
Take Note. "News" includes internet only and people's individual commentary but they have to say something significant. "I'm going to the Fringe later" doesn't qualify as a Fringe reference. The more an individual tries to emulate Old Media, the less I'll be inclined to include it here.
Without Annette are planning to review shows, but say it won't be as many as recent years. And they already have some commentary up.
Barry Smith, has some blog entries up about Montreal. I'll just stick the URL here, and won't link to specific entries unless he says something noteworthy, or does some reviews, but he seems prolific so it's likely worth following. barrysmith.wordpress.com
I emailed Simon Law to see if he'd be continuing with reviews this year, but haven't heard back from him, and his last blog entry was in mid-May.
montreal.com usually has some reviews, but it never seems definite, and sometimes they get online quite late in the Fringe.
J. Kelly Nestruck is living in England, so I don't expect him to cover our Fringe.
June 18
There is an article about the Frankies on page D5, Coveted Fringe award goes to war.
Barry Smith's latest Aspen Times column is out, Well, is it triumph or tragedy?, about reviews versus buzz.
I don't expect much, if anything, to appear until the weeklies come out on Thursday, and then silence until next year.
June 17
I see nothing in The Gazette (I had expected that) and nobody has put up anything of significance since yesterday.
June 16
This is bound to be the last day of reviews, the only reason any will appear on Sunday is that there is a backlog. The Gazette has two pieces on page E10, Drunken wastrel has Dickens of a time coping as a Mountie, about DIckens of the Mounted and LA Bonne Cuisine. Then there's Baby is about to be delivered into a loving Jamaican-Filipino-Ukrainian family, by Gaetan Charlebois, about Deep Fried Curried Perogies and Great, Now I Have to Burn My Sheets. There's no dance reviews, but we can't be picky, this year was a bounty year for that in the Gazette. I suppose there might be something hidden somewhere else in the paper, but I'm not going to get around to looking until later.
I expect some sort of wrap up in the Gazette tomorrow or somewhat later, but I think that's it for the reviews.
June 15
THere are four pieces that I find in the Gazette. On page A7, Mike Boone revisits the Radio Beat (he used to be the TV and radio columnist for the paper, even though it was mostly TV), Hmmm, there are no words to describe this experience, obviously about Hmmm. She's really good at getting press, this is the third English article she's scored (and all away from those that usually cover the Fringe), but tell me again how she is connected with the Fringe? All three hits make no mention that Hmmm is in the Fringe program (which seems to be the only connection, in truth)
Then on page D8, there is Theatre and marriage go together like a horse and carriage that covers Housekeeping & Homewrecking and Hanakengo/Shoshinz and Two solid solo works that demand attention by Gaetan Charlebois, covering On Second Thought and JOE: Perfect Man.
Then on page D9, Kathryn Greenaway has her now nearly daily set of reviews of dance shows, A doozy of a tour and terrific dance, covering The Haunted Womb Tour and ..And God Created Woman
I got the French weeklies, and I'll put them there so it's obvious I have added them. Voir has a piece on page 36 about theatre at the Festival, Vent de folie and as I write that there is even a lengthy commentary by a reader (so maybe more will appear later) in the comment section. Then on page 37 there is Hors norme about dance that covers Confort a Retardement, Action/Inversion (and then drops in a few other show names because they have some sort of fusion to them), Found & Lost: Goals for 2002, Haunted Womb Tour, Yabu No Naka: Distruthted, If Tap Shoes Could Talk, and Laberintos, and finally tossing in some titles that they haven't seen yet. I imagine the full list just might be the complete list of dance shows at the Fringe (though it's hard to tell, they are now well spread out and less categorized).
I don't see much in Ici. I thought they were a sponsor? All I can find, and I admit I'm not looking all that closely, is a piece on page 47 about Action/Inversion. But of course, this is often what's lacking at the Fringe. There are so many shows (even though they often have longer runs than a show at Tangente) that there is little space for much more than an extended blurb. These full length pieces (and when Hour used to have regular dance pieces, the same would happen there) lock out the other shows, but they give a serious perspective to the chosen show.
Actually, that comment in Voir reminds me that Hour has a place for reader comments after an article, and looking back there are comments for everything they've run about the Fringe this year (except for the tiny hit in My Messy Bedroom. So it's worth going back to look over the hits at Hour, though it's just yet another place where people can post, balkanizing Fringe discussion. The bit about Hmmm got quite a few comments, yes and no. And the reviews this week get people commenting on shows they've seen.
June 14
It's not yet 3am, and Hour is already up. The only Fringe bit I see is Fringe!!!, again using multiple reviewers (which is realistically the only way a Weekly can cover the Fringe). They cover American Squatter, Creeping Like Snail Willingly, History: Deleted Scenes and Extras, Scaramouche Jones, Under Milk Wood, Dickens of the Mounted, Bye Bye Bombay, Thunderspank!, The High Five Ultimatum, Sahara Crossing, Great. Now I Have to Burn My Sheets, Confort a retardement, Laberintos, Flamenco con Fusion, Gargantua, Fear of a Fat Planet, Going All the Way, and Primadonna: Confessions of an Italian Princess.
I later realize the Fringe gets a hit early in the issue, on that calendar type thing at the front, Hitlist. Pump Up the Jam gets a mention in the June 15 entry, and a photo.
Then when I wake up, The Mirror's new issue is online, earlier than it's been in previous Fringes. At the Front there are two sort of hits. Kathy Kennedy's Hmmm gets mentioned, but just as when she scored publicity in Hour last week, there is no mention that it has any connection with the Fringe. Where is her loyalty to the Firnge? Then in the look back to an old issue, June 10, 1993, Fringe Founder Kristin Kieran is quoted as saying "Be shameless in your publicity, bother the media, draw attention to yourself".
And then there's a whole string of short reviews further back in the issue, Fringe Reviews, covering Thunderspank!, Clean, Freak, American Squatter, The Procrastin8r, George Bush, Live in Press Conference, Bye Bye Bombay, Jem Rolls, If Tap Shoes Could Talk, Gargantua: Fear of a Fat Planet, Confort à Retardement, Hubris, A Conversation With Radha, Found & Lost: Goals for 2002, Housekeeping & Homewrecking, and Action/Inversion.
When I get a real copy of the paper, and a chance to look it over, I see there is a second set of reviews, that doesn't seem to have a visible link on their webpage, by Fringe Oldtimer Amy Barratt (time kind of slips away, but this must be her tenth year) on page More Fringe reviews, where she reviews The King of Fifteen Island, Scaramouche Jones, Dickens of the Mounted, and Deep Fried Curried Perogies.
I'll add in the French weeklies later, after I get paper copies.
The Gazette has three pieces, all on page D4, Kiwi comedian in the hinterland, that covers The Kiwi Joker and Die Roten Punkte. Then When the lawyers come knocking, the play gets a socking, about why Fatty disappeared, and a bit about the improv done by the same buy in its stead and a bit about Netherwhere:Aetherwhen (and that review is noteworthy since months ago she was worried about being way over at Geordie since she wanted some sellout shows). Of importance, that's written by good old "Skeeter", ie Gaetan Charlebois; I was beginning to think he was on vacation, or ill, since he had been taking care of the Fringe at the Gazette for a few years. And then there's the now common (and welcomed) article about dance at the Fringe, High-class clown gets down with simple premise, stellar juggling, where Kathryn Greenaway covers Circus Incognitus and the OFF This Playland is in Your Head.
Here's a disappointed review of ..And God Created Woman BELOW THE BELT: "Uninspired in Montreal: A Sob Story"
Some years, the Vermont and/or New York state papers have had some coverage of the Fringe in the past, but while I have been routinely checking them, I'm not finding anything. It's hard to tell though, since I'm not looking over what they put online each day, just doing searches every few days and turning up nothing. It's slightly possible they have articles, but their search engines don't work properly (I've found this to be true at The Suburban where I've had the paper newspaper in hand, and a search at their site doesn't find the article). Some years back, there was a preview article in one of the papers, and with that to go on, I did find older Fringe references going back to the early days, but I'm finding nothing this year.
This is horrible. Talking to one of the inFluxx dancers about coverage last year (they did get a review last year in the Gazette, and oddly it's still online, but of course it wasn't by an actual dance writer), and I wanted to check so I went through the list of coverage from last year (and it sure seems like there was a lot more typing going on last year). And I find one blog that not only had made commentary last year, but he's got some stuff up about this year's Fringe. Please don't make me type in all the titles, but as I write this he has little bits (a sentence in some cases, a paragraph in others) about 13 shows, so it's certainly worth the artists time to check. joenotcharles.livejournal.com.
Someone likes Kafka & Son, they not only mention it on on a collective blog, here, but also on their personal blog, here. I have to put in both references since they use different wording, and even then they don't actually say that much about it, but they sure seem to like it.
The Ottawa Fringe is about to start, and there's an Ottawa Citizen preview piece, Bring on Fringe which is not hidden behind a subscriber log in. I ought to try to track their coverage, to see how it compares with this year's low Gazette coverage.
June 13
On page D7 of The Gazette, Kathryn Greenaway is back with You can't dis dance with this much ability (readable by all) where she covers Confort a Retardement and Pump Up the Jam. There aren't any other reviews, and there isn't any section of Buzz printed in today's paper.
The group doing Jihad Me at Hello has a blog. obscenebutnotheard.blogspot.com and they have an entry here about Monday night's TJ Dawe show where TJ wasn't there and about 16 performers took his place.
rysmiel: Fringe benefits; weekend in somewhat belated review has some reviews up about Rap Canterbury Tale, The King of Fifteen Island, Sahara Crossing and Bad Weather. Oddly, they went to at least one show with one local science fiction (or is it fantasy?) writer, who did make comments on some Fringe shows a few years back and I have been checking her page in case she put up some Fringe entries. Oops, this was the same blog that had the entry about Opening Night, and the decline of flyers, which at the time I interpreted as being from someone who had no interest in the actual Fringe shows. Sorry.
Someone has a blog, vierge-en-trop.livejournal.com where over the course of a few entries she has basically a line of comment for each one, and she's seen a fair number of shows. Oddly, the blog has a bunch of knitting references, and one of the Venue Managers outside the Mainline Venue has been knitting, but when I asked, no it's not her. I may move this up to the sites to watch, given that the old guard are mostly absent this year, and she seems quite prolific in attending shows.
So Tristan was on Peter Anthony Holder's show on CJAD lastnight (or more, early this morning). I even got home in time to hear it. He brought along Amy Elizabeth Blackmore, and Tim Rabnett of Wichita (so I was close that the "cohort" would be Mike Patterson). It sounded similar to when Tristan had been on before and talking about the Fringe (I can't remember if he's ever been on specifically to talk about the Fringe), which isn't really a surprise given that one does have to cover the basics when addressing a general audience. For some weird reason, they were unsure about whether they could mention the title of Amy's show, it's odd since neither word is offensive in itself, and I still think the total title Hardcore Pussy could be interpreted as a show that has something to do with cats. Peter asks Tristan about the differences between the Fringe and Just for Laughs, I keep forgetting that Tristan had worked at the latter festival at least a few times (I don't know if he still does), which likely is why he gets onto Peter's show every so often. The question was interesting since it sounded like a point I made two years ago.
Simon Law obviously he's not been posting reviews yet this year (because I would have linked to them if he was, and I don't know if he actually will review shows this year) but he does post about a non-Fringe show (happening near the Fringe) in Missoula Oblongata: The most mysterious day of the year. The website for the show is here.
Travel Julie is expecting a piece in The Suburban but their webpage wakes up relatively late on Wednesday, so I may not get the link before I put this up. I will make the effort to find some paper copies on the way to the Fringe.
I did find a paper copy of The Link, and there were two more articles, I put the links in below where I mentioned the paper already.
So someone asks montreal: Fringe shows?, and they get a few responses about shows to see and a warning against one show.
June 12
Kathryn Greenaway has
So a websearch reveals that Caitlin Howden of Uncalled For was on CKUT, some show called Friday Morning After, to talk about improv and the group and the Fringe, but since it's a reference I just stumbled on, I know none of the details. On the other hand, one can download the show via this page. Again, due to dial up and time contraints, I've not actually grabbed the file.
There's this Fringe This! Dickens of the Mounted blog review of the show.
One of the Concordia papers, The Link, has a summer issue, and it's out now. I'll try to get some paper copies on my way to the Fringe. Anyway, there is one article about the Fringe, Madness, mayhem and mania. It's always kind of amusing to read this sort of article, since the turnover means that the same basic article gets rewritten each year (and that applies to a lot of topics that appear in student newspapers). "We better do an article about the Fringe" but they can't say much new because they don't have a history with the festival. "Let's look in the archives" and they see that a few years back they ran an article about the other festival, so let's try to get that into the article. But it's only an issue because the paper thinks it's an issue. And in that way that the young tend to follow trends, it's easy for them to believe there is some truth to what the other festival says. A day later I have the actual paper newspaper, and there are two other articles of relevance. The art of procrastin8tion
, obviously about that show, and What I remember about the other festival. It's no wonder the Fringe piece mentioned the other one. I know I mentioned it to Amy Elizabeth Blackmore, and there are other shows with a Concordia hook so it seems a shame they don't get covered but instead we see yet another overview article.I went to a show, so I didn't see what transpired, but Global TV was set up at the Beer Tent about 6pm on Monday, and surely that meant at least a bit of air time about the Fringe.
Last night, at 00:35 Tamara Brown was on Peter Anthony Holder's show on CJAD to talk about Youthworks at the Black Theatre Workshop. Their Fringe show, The Procrastin8r was mentioned right at the beginning but I did not record the half hour and I got distracted so I'm not sure how much, if any, of the interview was about the show. Unless there are two Tamara's connected with the Fringe show, this must be her blog, downtownmizbrown.blogspot.com, where she's made a few general comments about being at the Fringe.
June 11
There are two pieces in The Gazette. both on page E4. The first is another review of dance by Kathryn Greenaway. Dance is as big as ever - and full of potential where she covers Gargantua, A Night on the Fourth Floor and Celui-Qui. Then Matt Radz has Funny philosopher tramples stereotypes until it hurts about TJ Dawe and Kafka & Son.
Barry Smith's Aspen Times column for this week is out, Speaking a lot of French in Montreal about parking signs, parking tickets, and a funny story about trying to lure a passerby to his Fringe show, American Squatter
Via Kate's Blog, Montreal City Weblog, there's a link to this cyberpresse article (I never read the paper, so I don't know how much different the website is from the actual paper La Presse) covering some of the dance at the Fringe, La fonte des corps, Action/Inversion, Flamenco con fusion, Laberintos, Confort a retardement and Pump up the jam.
I mentioned the other day finding Cara Yeates blog with a websearch, but not only did I not put in a link, but for some reason I figured she'd be like most Fringe performers, busy with so many things that their webpage or whatever lies fallow during the Fringe. But she has a train of thought passage up now, so it may be worth checking occasionally. It's at blog.myspace.com/carayeates though I don't see an obvious way to link to specific pieces. And Without Annette caught that she'd had a new entry before me, the most recent post lacks the full key words I was using for the search. I imagine there could be all kinds of references that we don't catch, simply because of the wrong search terms. You can't just use "Fringe", or else you get zillions of hits, not just for all the Festivals, but for ny use of the word. (Of course, the years I tried to keep a list ahead of time of who was coming to the Fringe and had to do deep searches for it, I thought if only each act coming to the Montreal Fringe would use some highly specific meta tag in the webpage, it would be alot easier.)
Not quite Fringe related, but the Gazette also has Festivals, soothe thyselves which is about the current issue of the government holding back funding to festivals. The Fringe seems absent from these stories, so I don't know it was never part of this round of funding, or it's just deemed too small to be mentioned among the Big Festivals. The latter do have a much larger budget, and do at least try to get the government to make up shortfalls.
June 10
All I see in The Gazette is Hard-up Fringe acts inspired when it comes to marketing or on page A19 of the paper edition. It's about some of the things troupes do to promote their shows. I guess that's what we're seeing this year, pieces about the Fringe and the shows, rather than actual reviews, since many of the acts just want free publicity. I see nothing more in the paper. We clearly should have been sending cakes and whatnot to whoever is in charge, because clearly a decision was made to cut back on coverage (again). At least what's the paper is printing isn't locked behind subscriber registration online.
I made the effort to go to the Atwater Library to find copies of The Senior Times, it being the most likely place I could think of that might have some. Byron Toben (who years ago wrote the Daily Playlette each day during the Fringe and distributed photocopies around the venues) has an article every year in the newspaper, yet only one copy arrives at the Fringe. I grabbed about half a dozen, I suspect I should have got more, and dropped them off to Travel Julie who's playing Fringe Communications Officer this year. The article is on Page 14, and titled Byron's Picks for 17th Fringe, on till June 17. He mentions 16 show, mostly included because someone in the show is a known quality, having been to the Fringe before:
Maxim & Cosmo
Jem Rolls
Sahara Crossing
George Bush, Live in Press Conference
The Works
Housekeeping & Homewrecking
Hardcore Pussy
...And Stockings for the Ladies
Dickens of the Mounted
Primadonna: Confessions of an Italian Princess
Kiwi Joker
Fatty
Bad Weather
One Night in Berlin
Fool for Love
Burden of Proof
Of course, Fatty is off the schedule due to legal issues. These aren't reviews, and barely more than a few sentences each. Byron then ends the piece by saying "three dance pieces deserve mention". I think more likely they hit him up for a mention. Bye Bye Bombay, This Playland is in Your Head and If Tap Shoes Could Talk.
Apparently Ame Henderson is featured in an article in the summer issue of The Dance Current. You might remember her from such Fringe Shows as A Chemistry Experiment in 1999, and Mange Mes Pieds Saute a la Gorge in 2001. She even helped Rebecca Singh with Origami Motorcycle. And of course, she was a founding member of Solid State, though she had moved to Toronto by the time they first performed at the Fringe in 2002. She actually had a show at the Darling Foundery two years ago, which is being used as an OFF venue this year. A really nice venue, but pretty isolated.
Again not quite Fringe related, but I find a press release here from McAuslin about that imatation microbrewery beer from Labatt's, and it does mention the Fringe Festival in a sentence about the company supporting the arts. Talk elsewhere brings up the fact that the Fringe's first beer sponsor (they've been gone a long time, relatively speaking) is now owned by a Japanese company.
June 9
Maybe a closer look will reveal something later, but all I see in The Gazette this morning is a sort of preview of the dance shows on page E2, Ha Ha Ha human steps: dance can be funny - and not (it's readable by all). I think he's missing the point once again. Dance can be funny, and you should feel you can laugh when a piece moves you in that way, but he seems to use it to imply lesser work. Of course, dance is a jumble at the Fringe, and it seems insincere that he uses things he wouldn't cover to try to drive a point that dance at the Fringe isn't significant. It's ridiculous to give Big Moves prominence when he'd not cover them normally, yet other shows get no more than a sentence. Use it to tell us something useful about dance at the Fringe, or some facet of dance (contact improvisation can be interesting yet no mention of Elison's show)
But wait. Elison mentioned that she got a mention in The Senior Times but I haven't yet found a copy. Obviously, Byron must have written a preview piece. They obviously have a website, but they don't bother with it, not only not putting every article online from each issue, but a quick glance shows nothing in six months.
I had a chance to retrieve the French weeklies, and they have some Fringe coverage. Ici has a couple of articles, but do they have a webpage? On page 10, there is an article about the Pop Montreal stuff at the Beer Tent, and then below it there is a shorter article about France Geoffroy who is in Confort a Retardement. Then on page 43, there's a brief bit about dance at the Fringe, not much more than naming some titles.
Voir has Le theatre au Festival Fringe on page page 41, and La danse au Festival Fringe on page 47, a bit more than listing of names, though at least they see that there is a variety of dance at the Fringe.
I was wrong about The Suburban, sort of. There is a May 30th bit about the Festival, at the bottom of a column, I suspect Mike Cohen's but I see no byline online. It's readable here, though you have to scroll down.
There's a May 20th piece from the Orlando Sentinal about inFluxdance's show at the Orlando Fringe, readable here.
June 8
No sign of a Big Preview Article in the Gazette, I wonder what we did wrong? Bill Brownstein has a piece on page E1, Hail to the chief's (un)reasonable facsimile (it's readable online by all) about George Bush, Live in Press Conference. Then on page page e4, Kathryn Greenaway has a short review of La Fonte des Corps (though on second look, I realize she doesn't ever mention the shows title, just the company name) down at the Darling Foundary (the run ends on Saturday June 9th), Fresh and eager Co/Motion dancers experiment with fun. THere are also some insignificant hits (ie a brief mention of the Fringe and some show titles) in the Calendar listing of upcoming events on page E8, but I don't see it online at the moment.
It's significant that the only reason at least one person knows the Fringe is on is because of my various activities. "I haven't seen anyting in the paper", which is a good indicator that the Gazette's coverage is way down. (Though I did see a Fringe ad on prime time tv last week, which is a surpise. The only time I've seen them before is on late night tv.)
Cara Yeates doing Bye Bye Bombay shows up in a websearch saying she had an interview on CKUT. I'm still tracking down what show, but I'm guessing it was Upstage and hence one can grab the program off their website and listen to it even though the actual radio airing is over. The download page is here, and obviously one has to select the show for June 7th, and pick the quality of the recording. I don't want to wait around for it to download, so I'm awaiting for her reply to make sure it was that show.
There's a blog entry here that sort of discusses Opening Night, but it's noteworthy in that it defines the split that the Fringe is now in. He doesn't want to take flyers from the acts? Opening Night used to be exactly about that, a chance for the performers to work the crowd. Now, you can bring in a completely different audience who has no interest in the Fringe, just the peripheral stuff that starts dwarfing the real Fringe.
www.dfdanse.com has a piece here previewing the dance at the Fringe, and it appears they'll be having more later in the week.
There's a website I've never heard of that has a piece, Deep Fried Curried Perogies, anyone? on the show of the same name.
That site also has a piece, It's time for the Montreal Fringe Fest again! which is a pretty generic piece, leaving me wondering what the site is about. (Maybe I missed something, it suddenly seems longer, and maybe more worthwhile the next day.)
June 7
I think the cold woke me up, because not only was I up by 7:30, but the weeklies had their new editions up already (Hour does it routinely, but the Mirror often gets online fairly late in the day).
Amy Elizabeth Blackmore is on the cover of The Mirror, though I thought she looked better live at the Fringe For All. Inside, there's a decent preview of the Fringe by Amy Barratt readable online here, and a second piece about Amy Elizabeth Blackmore and her show Hardcore Pussy, on that same link. A glance didn't show other Fringe hits, but then I don't have a paper copy and that's usually easier to find things with.
Hour is a disappointment. I guess they decided the cover story last week about Wichita was sufficient, since I see no preview article about the Fringe (though again, maybe I've missed something on the website). It's been a long time since that has happened. Kathy Kennedy and Hmmm does get covered in Babylon P.Q. though no mention that it's off-Fringe, and officially in the program. Let's leech off the Fringe, but not have the decency to return the favor and making it clear that you are part of the Fringe. And there is a passing reference to Caberlesque! A Cheeky Romp at the bottom of My Messy Bedroom ANd yes I caught a third reference related to music, and I just no longer feel it's worth mentioning.
It is a sad day in Fringeville. We had that demeaning piece in the Gazette on Saturday about the Fringe for All (let's make it clear, that's what it was, it wasn't a preview of the Fringe), and there's no preview today when I would have expected it. Perhaps they are putting it in tomorrow, perhaps they aren't going to cover the Fringe. Bill Brownstein does have a column about the Fringe, on page E1 and actually readable by all online, Fringe Fest launch a drag - and proud of it. But much of it is similar to what he's written over the years about the Fringe.
June 6
I don't see anything in The Suburban this week. I can remember many years when they didn't have anything about the Fringe, and I wondered why we weren't getting in there. If you want to expand the audience, you have to reach them, and surely the Suburban has different demographics than the "alternative weeklies". Sometimes I don't think the Fringe knows what it wants to be, one minute it wants to be respectable, then the next it's trying to reach the young. But, there have been hits in the Suburban over the past few years, and I had expected something today. But I see nothing. By next week, the Fringe will be mostly over. There is an entry in the Community Events listings, here, but only three shows get mentioned and there's no comment. I've always assumed specific shows try for listings there, because it has happened sporadically over the years.
Not quite Fringe, but at least Fringe related. There's an article in this morning's paper, page B1 and readable online, Saints of beer in a skirmish, about how McAuslan is claiming Labatt is trying to move into their territory, ie the large beer company is trying to give the impression of being a microbrewery.
June 5
Since I wasn't expecting it so early, I didn't ask my friend Leslie
Lutsky at the Fringe for All about who he might be interviewing
on his show, Jewish Digest, that airs on
Radio Centre-Ville Saturdays at 8:30am at 102.3. Usually he
does do interviews with some Fringe performers. It turns out
he did a couple this past Saturday (ie June 2nd), but he says
it's online until Saturday. He interviewed Atilla Clemann
who wrote ...And Stockings for the Ladies, and
Tamara Tennenbaum and Sarit Klein, who are doing
10 is Just a One and a Zero. Note: it's time
for the station's annual raffle, and as always Leslie has tickets
for sale.
June 3
I don't really know if it qualifies as a "media hit", but Elison points me to this page with a third party saying something about her show, This Playland Is In Your Head. I'm unsure because it's more like an announcement rather than some in depth article about it, or even an introduction to contact improv to act as an intermediary for the potential audience that may never have even heard of it.
June 3
I guess it qualifies as news (it at least says something new). There's
a bit
here about Fatty on The
Torontoist which I seem to recall J. Kelly Nestruck (his
blog is still at
fence.blogspot.com,
though it's no longer clear if he's on or off the Fence) writing for
before he went over to England. As I write this, I guess there is
still time to drive to Toronto for the benefit Fatty benefit.
Barry Smith seems to have a regular column in the Aspen Times and I know last year after the fact I realized he was using it to write about his performing at verious Fringes. He tells me that he's had the column for ten years.
There is a May 14th entry Canada - or, how I will have spent my summer vacation about his plans for touring the Fringe circuit, including Montreal where he's doing American Squatter.
June 2
The Gazette preview article is out, or rather the now annual "that
was the Fringe For All" piece, on page E4 by Matt Radz. Readable
online
here (and you don't have to be a Gaz subscriber).
No separate bit about dance at the Fringe.
Up until a few years ago, this piece would be on the front of the entertainment section, and be more comprehensive (and lack the silly tone). But then it got moved into the section, and is shorter. On the other hand, that same new tradition has meant a fair size article on the opening Thursday, and Gaetan Charlebois doing the actual coverage of the Fringe (which is a good thing).
May 31st
Obviously, the weeklies are out. Hour
puts Wichita on the cover, and a full article about the show
here.
I don't see anything else in the issue, not really a surprise given
it's a week early. But I'll check later when I find my paper copy.
The Mirror has a piece about The Origami Motorcycle here, and again that's the only bit I find. Stay tuned for next week. The same issue of course has the Best of Montreal and take note the Fringe gets listed as a Best Pickup Spot, a category it hit back in 1998 (Scroll down here to see the honorable mention). Either it takes no votes to get in that category, or someone organized a campaign; both years I entered the Fringe in that category. Back in 1997, it landed in the Best Place for Public Sex as "on the stage at the Fringe Festival", see here. Obviously,some of the other categories get Fringe performers or references, including the Fringe being Number 3 in Best Festival.
I saw nothing in The Suburban this week, though the Fringe For All was in the entertainment listings last week.