IndyFringe

As IndyFringe prepares to relaunch its theater festival after a year off, a new CEO takes the stage.

The best parties in town and online.

Exotic food, new beer, and how to see downtown’s first-ever light show.

Pearl Jam in Chicago, Chef’s Night Off, an al fresco movie night, and more.

IndyFringe hosts 384 performances in 11 days during the IndyFringe Theatre Festival. We found three most unusual shows coming to the stage.

Pauline Moffat remembers thinking: “Here’s a man with vision. He’s starting at a grassroots level with soccer, just as the Fringe did with performance.”

“It was outrageous, and the audience gave a standing ovation,” says Pauline Moffat of A**holes & Aureoles. “That was the night I knew IndyFringe audiences were open-minded and ready for the next generation of uncensored and unjuried fringe performances.”

“Now, in addition to having a vibrant local food/local beer movement, [Indianapolis has] a parallel local arts movement.”

This year’s Indy Fringe includes bike races, puppets, dead presidents, and a closet full of anti-Semitic squirrels.

“WFYI is producing a documentary on IndyFringe that will air around the country in August,” she says.

From summertime fireworks to Holiday festivities, we’ve got you covered on what’s happening in the Circle City.

A caravan of imagined art vehicles, inspired by the campaign to build an Indy Fringe Truck that will bring theater to festivals across the state.

Regarding the Flowbee, no one remembers who won, but the auctioneer made good use of the “hair today, gone tomorrow” slogan.

Don’t try to make new friends. Even so, the people-watching is first class. Just don’t gawk.

[See parts I, II and III of this 2012 IndyFringe series for more on the 2012 festival.]