Greg Brostrom (from left), Kate O'Neill and Melissa Fennewald rehearse the dinner party drama "Foreign Bodies."
Experience the Fringe
The KC Fringe Festival runs through July 29 at venues in the Crossroads and midtown. Most shows run 60 minutes, although a few will be 90 minutes. Admission to any venue requires a festival button ($5), which allows you buy tickets to any show. For more information go the festival website at KCFringe.org.More News
The KC Fringe Festival is a place where artists can do the thing they dread the most: fail.
Nobody wants to fall face-first on a festival stage, of course, and many performers don’t. But the Fringe is a forum where actors, directors, playwrights and other artists can take big risks by trying out new material and producing plays you may never see at an established theater company. It’s also a relatively cheap way to get a play on its feet to see how it works in performance.
Take Jerry Genochio. Genochio is the producing director at Kansas City Repertory Theatre and oversees most of the technical aspects of Rep productions. But one day a friend challenged him to do something he’d never done: Write a play.
So he did.
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