February 2007 Archive

OSF “Shakes” the Festival from its name

Submitted by ryanprice on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 23:55

The Orlando theater company best known for Shakespeare is changing its name.

Known for the past 12 years as the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, the area's largest resident theater company will be called Orlando Shakespeare Theater.

Apparently, the backers of the festival are hoping we the people will start calling it "Orlando Shakes" - hence the snappy title.

DRIP: Paint in Motion

Submitted by ryanprice on Fri, 02/16/2007 - 13:43

Imagine a painting that can paint itself, dance, look at you, touch other paintings and change those others with its own paint. Sounds too good to be true? It might be, but DRIP is bringing it to us.

There is a great interview with Marla Maribal, the artistic director for DRIP, over on her MySpace page.

Linwood Sassy’s Screw You Review

Submitted by ryanprice on Fri, 02/16/2007 - 13:11

I've just finished writing a post over on Orlando Video about Dewey Chaffee. You might recognize the name, but if not, just know that he is associated with a certain grumpy old man who has emerged as one of the early adopters of this whole YouTube/MySpace/promote your show/promote early/promote often... thing. If you have a Fringe show, look at what Linwood and Dewey are putting together.

I can't really say what the show is all about, but it's very clear that Linwood thinks our little festival is below his celebrity.

Want to Learn How to Produce a Fringe Show?

Submitted by ryanprice on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 12:09

The Orlando International Fringe Festival's Producing Artistic Director Returns To Teach Yapinars at The Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays-PlayFest

Have you ever wanted to produce a Fringe show but did not know where to start?