Theater Feature: What? The Fringe! Fifth Annual Fest Presents Fifty Shows At Five Venues

  A feature for Newcity Stage:

Rob Lloyd: Who, Me.
Photo: James Penlidis. Design: Lliam Amor

Look, up on the Northwest Side, it’s the Fifth Annual ChicagoFringe Festival. What was once the very outskirt of the Blue Line is now an emergent theater hood per festival executive director Vinnie Lacey:  “Theater happens everywhere in Chicago.To call any place a theater district is laughable to me. We found a home in Jefferson Park that has really revitalized the festival.” What follows is frayed and I ain’t about to weave it together seamlessly. Frankly that wouldn’t be very fringy. Forward, then, with a few featured fringe funambulists…

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Po’ Chop: Black as Eye Wanna Be.
Photo: VAM