GETTING GEEKY WITH HOLLYWOOD FRINGE - CHATTER NAMED ONE OF 7 PLAYS TO SEE

CHATTER

For those living in the Los Angeles area, the Hollywood Fringe Festival is upon you. Perhaps you might have seen their flags flown throughout the city or perhaps you might have heard whispers of it from your actor friends yapping away about which fringe play to watch. And you go, “What the heck IS the Hollywood Fringe Festival?”

The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Since 2010, each June the arts infiltrate the Hollywood neighborhood: Fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers. This year’s festival includes diverse offerings from a wide range of performing arts genres. The majority of shows are either ensemble theatre, solo performance, or comedy. However, attendees will also find cabaret, musical theatre, dance shows, and a new category — immersive theatre. All of these are presented in dozens of spaces throughout central Hollywood, offering something for everyone.

For the first time ever, I will be repping our NOC flagship to cover this festival so there will be more articles coming as I will not only be writing about the plays but the numerous special events that will pop up. This year, they currently have 375 shows registered for this year’s festival. Yes that’s right, for the entire month of June, there will be 375 shows registered to perform over 2,000 performances throughout the festival.

So with 375 choices to choose from, where does one possibly start?? Here are the few that caught my attention:

…. a Fringe Scholarship winner, CHATTER is a play about the voices in our head that belittle and berate us, portrayed by an ensemble cast primarily featuring black women. It will be performing at the Underground-Uptown on 1312 N. Wilton Pl. LA, CA 90028.

SHOW DATES/TIMES:

Saturday, June 3, 2017 2:30pm – 3:10pm
Sunday, June 18, 2017 5:30pm – 6:10pm
Thursday, June 22, 2017 7:00pm – 7:40pm

From Edward Hong’s website, The Nerds of Color:
https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2017/06/01/getting-geeky-with-the-hollywood-fringe-festival/