New Orleans Fringe Festival changes name and direction
 

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After what director Kristin Evans describes as the most successful New Orleans Fringe Festival yet (in attendance, quality, finances and number of shows), the nonprofit alternative theater festival is making several organizational changes and is now called "faux/real [a series of events]." It will become a three-week event in November 2015.

"In the past seven years, the festival has changed a lot, and changed the environs," Evans says. "We have always had a volunteer-run model, and we've hit the constraints of that model."

Evans also says that after running the festival out of her living room for seven years, she's looking to take a step back.

The festival features all sorts of shows, including drama, musicals, comedy, circus and aerialist acts, burlesque, puppetry, mashups of those and more.? [ Read more ]

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