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Fringe Forecast

Submit to Fringe! StL's Best Theater Festival Returns for Round 2

Consider yourself warned: St. Lou Fringe is coming back in 2013, from June 20-24. Due to an unfortunate conflict with Pride last summer, the 2012 edition of Fringe was woefully underpopulated, but it still won recognition in the pages of Riverfront Times as the year's Best Theater Festival and its f ... More >>

Plight of the Dancing Dead

Em Piro: Fringe Mastermind Already Plotting for 2013

Em Piro has learned her lesson. St. Lou Fringe 2013 has been scheduled for June 20-24. That is not the weekend of Pride. It is the weekend before. 2012 firmly established that if there's going to be a conflict between Pride and Fringe, Pride, older and bigger and more deeply embedded in St. Louis ... More >>

Post-St. Lou Fringe, Em Piro Gives a Post-Mortem

The St. Lou Fringe Festival may be over, but St. Lou Fringe goes on. And on. And on. "It's just as much work now as it was before the festival," says executive director Em Piro. It's just a different kind of work. Instead of chasing down venues, Piro is spending her time balancing her budget and w ... More >>

RAW Arts Showcase Gets Cooking in St. Louis

First there was St. Lou Fringe. Now there's RAW: natural born artists, another showcase of up-and-coming artists that's part of a larger international movement. Founded in LA three years ago, RAW's mission is to produce a monthly show in each of its 50-plus cities featuring independent artists: mus ... More >>

Osuwa Taiko at St. Lou Fringe: Photos

This weekend, the St. Lou Fringe Festival took over Locust Street in midtown with performers from around the country. Read about the organization and genesis of St. Lou Fringe in this week's covers story. Among the acts on the schedule were several musicians, including the local Osuwa Taiko Japane ... More >>

SLU grad Em Piro thought it was a shame St. Louis had no annual fringe festival. Say hello to St. Lou Fringe!

St. Lou Fringe Review: Cecily and Gwendolyn's Fantastical Missourian Anthropological Inquisitorial Probe

How you feel about Cecily and Gwendolyn's Fantastical Missourian Anthropological Inquisitorial Probe, which runs all four days of the St. Lou Fringe (Thursday 4 p.m., Friday 8:30 p.m., Saturday 1 p.m. and Sunday 2:30 p.m., all at the Nash Building, 3000 Locust), depends on how you feel about interac ... More >>

Presenting St. Lou Fringe's Breakthrough Festival

In this week's feature story, Em Piro Builder, Aimee Levitt presents a collective oral history of Fringe Festivals on the eve of St. Louis' inaugural one. The four-day festival of more than 80 performances from 27 theater, music, performance art and dance acts, St. Lou Fringe's breakthrough season i ... More >>

The Fringe is Near: Arts Festival Needs Your Help

In 24 days, the first St. Lou Fringe Festival will take over Midtown. And what is a fringe festival, you ask? The short answer: It's a performing arts festival comprised of 30 local and national acts -- singers, dancers, actors, acrobats -- that will go on for four days in four venues, all on Locus ... More >>