Derrick Chua’s 2017 Top 12 Fringe Picks
Check out the twelve shows the inimitable Derrick Chua is most excited to see at this year’s Fringe Festival.
Be Careful What You Wish For
What three things would you wish for?
The Little Things
Kindness gets a bad rap: it’s usually presented as cutesy or twee. We wanted to bad-ass kindness up, to show that can be intense, even powerful.
The SHOW SHOW: A Lip Sync Battle ft. Kristian Bruun, Matty Burns, and Steph Malek
In this episode, Ruth and Liz challenge smash Fringe sensations/musical improv troupe Songbuster to a lip sync battle.
Five Years of Love, Beer, and Shakespeare
It’s wonderful to be able to go to bed at night and turn to the person beside you and say, “What if King John was played by a woman?”
Don’t Cast a White Actor as MLK, and Other Reasons It’s Important to Listen
Listening helps me learn how we can collectively improve in order to support all members of our community.
Wine and Whineability
“You seem to do a lot with Jane Austen,” my uncle wrote. “Did you know you are related to her boyfriend Thomas Langlois Lefroy? He is your fifth great uncle.”
Virtual vs. Visceral
Our entire lives are screens, if you think about it. You’re reading this on a screen. The sum total of human knowledge is found behind a screen. Our entertainment, our news, and how we tell people what is going on in our lives—all on screens.