10 SHOWS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE 2013 BY KAT PRIMEAU

The Miss Julie Dream Project

It’s that time of year again, the season of anticipation and excitement before Hollywood Fringe begins, when savvy producers are rolling out cross-marketing deals and dweeby theatre journalists are sifting through press releases to find what can’t be missed amidst the wealth of theatre heading our way. Call us obsessed, call us nut jobs (thanks, Colin), but this year Ben Hill and HFF have made it even easier to geek the f&*k out, introducing a festival app which allows you to search shows and create a Favorites list on your mobile device. I cozied down with mine and was appropriately delighted to find some promising shows on the horizon, along with old fringe favorites I can’t wait to catch again. While I know I will discover more audience-worthy fare at the opening night party and through thorough tactile exploration of the printed Fringe guide, the following shows (in no particular order) have already tickled my interest.

THE MISS JULIE DREAM PROJECT

I’m a sucker for aesthetics, and so far, MJDP has the most beautiful promotional art on the circuit. A group founded on producing “on the playwrights terms,” So Cal’s Fell Swoop Playwrights promises to paint a dreamscape featuring a “wildly rebellious” female character intersecting “Miss Julie” and “A Dream Play”, two of Strindberg’s most famous works. I’m looking forward to the trip down Theatre History lane set at Fringe establishment Three Clubs, the second most fun Fringe bar (following Bryan’s Bar at Fringe Central and just slightly ahead of the charmingly-serviced scene at iO West).

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