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Last March, when the public still grasped the reality of a pandemic, Katie Jones looked at the calendar and thought the Asheville Fringe Festival, which…
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It’s difficult to tell which is more unsettling, the memory Edwin Salas carries of his rape 30 years ago inside a Costa Rican museum or that the rape…
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With new works, playwrights often work closely with the director to shape what happens on stage. But once Peter Lundblad finishes writing a play, his…
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Abby Felder wanted to pursue experimental theater after college, so the North Carolina native moved to Asheville seven years ago and co-founded Asheville…
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Julia Christgau regarded 2018 as a year of yes.“I just got cast, cast, cast in all these things. I made three films and I did two plays,” she recalls. “I…
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NOTE: This is the second of two stories previewing the 2019 Asheville Fringe Festival.Vanessa Owen and Gavin Stewart met on the dance floor seven years…
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NOTE: This is one of two preview stories BPR is producing in advance of the Asheville Fringe Festival.Think of the theater, dance and music familiar to…
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Aaron Snook has devoted his professional life to creating theater off the beaten path.“I started envisioning a theater that was different, that was more…
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Monica McDaniel didn’t grow up with theater and hasn’t seen much theater as an adult. So even she can’t quite answer why she thought about writing her…
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Jamieson Ridenhour remembers himself as a 10-year-old, reading the original “Dracula” novel and staying awake with his mother well past midnight to watch…