Best of the Fringe: The TVolution Take

For a complete medal tally for all 60 viewed by this contributor see click HERE.  Below is a The TVolution Category Best of Fringe 2016 breakdown and be sure to check the Fringe schedule below to see if a show you missed has been extended!

BEST OF THE FRINGE:

PUNCH AND JUDY

BEST COMEDY:

THE TOXIC AVENGER MUSICAL

HONORABLE MENTION:

MACDETH
#WHALEFAIL

BEST MUSICAL:

BUMPERSTICKER – THE MUSICAL

HONORABLE MENTION:

SITTING BULL’S LAST WALTZ
OFFICE BEAT

This year displayed a level of acting talent that was off the chart.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR: A THREE WAY TIE

DANIEL LLEWELYN WILLIAMS (A REGULAR LITTLE HOUDINI )
ALEX WALTERS (VINCENT DECONSTRUCTED)
JOEL ABELSON (THE INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX)

HONORABLE MENTION:

MUKESH PATEL (THE INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX )
JIMMY SLONINA (PUNCH AND JUDY)
JAMIE ENGBER (#WHALEFAIL)
BEN MOROSKI (TILT)
MICHAEL SHAW FISHER (TILT)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS:

ANNA SAFAR (NEVA)

HONORABLE MENTION:

CLAUDIA DE VASCO (NEVA)
CATHERINE WALLER (THE CREEPS)
CLAIRE CHAPELLI (#WHALEFAIL)
SHERRY BERG (#WHALEFAIL)

BEST ENSEMBLE:

THE INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX (JOEL ABELSON, MUKESH PATEL, NICKLAUS VON NOLDE)

HONORABLE MENTION:

NEVA : (CLAUDIA DE VASCO, ANNA SAFAR, DANIEL JIMENEZ)

50 SHADES OF SHAKESPEARE (NOAH JAMES, JORDAN MANN, KELLY NIENALTOWSKI AND EDDIE VONA)

VINCENT DECONSTRUCTED (ALEX WALTERS, TARE MCGRATH, TODD ANDREW BALL & GRAYDON SCHLICHTER)

#WHALEFAIL (CLAIRE CHAPELLI, SHERRY BERG, JAMIE ENGBER & CLAYTON FARRIS)

BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE — A TWO WAY TIE:

CATHY SCHENKELBERG (SQUEEZE MY CANS)
CARLA DELANEY (VOICES)

HONORABLE MENTION:

SAM REDWAY (BIN LADEN: THE ONE MAN SHOW)

JUDGES’ PICK:

JACK LUKEMAN (THE KING OF SOHO)


EDITOR’S NOTE:  Good News! Many of the Fringe Shows have been extended.  Fringe-2016.jpg

Here’s a partial list of this week’s schedule:

Shows This Week

Thursday, June 30th
8:30pm – Alien vs. Musical (Sacred Fools)
8:30pm – Smoke (Met Theatre)

Friday, July 1st
7:00 pm – Awkwardly Fabulous (Asylum @ Studio C)
8:00pm – All the Best Killers are Librarians (Sacred Fools Theater)
8:30pm – How to Be a Virgin (In 12 Morally Ambiguous Steps) (Asylum @ Studio C)
8:30pm – Groundwork (Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre)

Saturday, July 2nd
2:00pm – Bull (Met Theatre)
5:00pm – Smoke (Met Theatre)
7:00pm – A Horse with a View (Asylum @ Studio C)
7:30pm – Office Beat: A Tap Dance Comedy (Sacred Fools Theater)
8:30pm – Voices (Asylum @ Studio C)

Sunday, July 3rd
6:00 pm – Bull (Met Theatre)
8:00pm – Smoke (Met Theatre)

Wednesday, July 6th
9:00pm – 50 Shades of Shakespeare (Three Clubs)

Thursday, July 7th
8:30pm – Smoke (Met Theatre)

For the full schedule of shows and to buy tickets visit www.hollywoodfringe.org.

Written by

An award-winning L.A. playwright and rabble-rouser of note who has hoisted glasses with Orson Welles, been arrested on three continents and once beat up Charlie Manson. His first play, "Among the Vipers" was a semi-finalist in the Julie Harris Playwriting Competition and was featured in the Carnegie-Mellon Showcase of New Plays. It was produced at the NPT Theater in Ashland, Oregon and Los Angeles’ celebrated Odyssey Ensemble Theatre. His following play, “The Little Boy Who Loved Monsters” was produced at The Hollywood Actors Theater, where he earned praise from the Los Angeles Times for his “…inordinately creative writing.” The play went on to numerous other productions including Berlin’s The Black Theatre under the direction of Rainer Fassbinder who wrote in his program notes of Kearney, “He is a skilled playwright, but more importantly he is a dangerous one.” Ernest Kearney has worked as literary manager or as dramaturge for among others The Hudson Theater Guild, Nova Diem and the Odyssey Ensemble Theatre, where he still serves on the play selection committee. He has been the recipient of two Dramalogue Awards and a finalist or semi-finalist, three times, in the Julie Harris Playwriting Competition. His work has been performed by Michael Dunn, Sandra Tsing Loh, Jack Colvin and Billy Bob Thornton, and to date, either as playwright or director, he has upwards of a hundred and thirty productions under his belt, including a few at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater as puppeteer. Kearney remains focused on his writing, as well as living happily ever after with his lovely wife Marlene. His stage reviews and social essays can be found at TheTVolution.com and workingauthor.com. Follow him on Facebook.

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