RASPBERRY FIZZ to play at Houston Fringe Festival

Travis Stuebing as Ellson and Tashina Richardson as Samantha in RASPBERRY FIZZ

My sweet little coming-of-age play RASPBERRY FIZZ will head off to the Houston Fringe Festival in about a week. If you find yourself in Houston, Texas and wanna see some tender, funny, and slightly weird theatre, head on out to see it! All the info you could ever want... HERE.

Barista drawing in France

My quick little sketchbook drawing of a barista at NYC's Cafe Grumpy popped up on Imagixs, a French site of free downloadable coloring pages for kids. It is in the "Images of Coffee" page. Sure, they are using it without my permission, but I think it is kinda neat. And my artwork has gone international. Check it out HERE.

Strength

This is normally the kind of thing I'd post on Tumblr or (now) Pinterest, but I want to keep this post close and on tap. I want to have it here so it is accessible to me without so much digging. It speaks to one of my core principles.

CHOP returns... At SoloMania! Festival in New Orleans

I am not sure which exact dates and times I'm down for just yet, but I wanted to start to get the word out there about SoloMania! As you'll see in the press release below, it is a mini-fringe fest organized by some kick-ass solo performers in New Orleans. I am thrilled and humbled I was invited to join in (I'm one of just three or four out-of-towners). I mean, look at the list below of the awesome artists in this thing (I mean, Bremner Duthie! That dude is a class act!).

I'm taking my weird, heart-breaking and hilarious solo show CHOP, which I'm totally excited to come back to after more than a year away from it.

Visit the website for more SoloMania! info, and I'm sure I'll be updating about it as it gets closer.

SOLOMANIA! FESTIVAL OFFERS A MENU OF SOLO PERFORMANCES

The first two weekends in November, the Shadowbox Theatre will host the SoloMania 
Festival (www.solomaniafest.com). SoloMania! offers New Orleans theater lovers a menu of solo performances, showcasing the diversity of perspectives and solo techniques currently enlivening New Orleans stages. The solo shows reflect a range of sensibilities, including performances for latenight, adult, and child audiences. SoloMania! promotes experimentation and risk among writers, solo performers, and directors. It supports the development and presentation of new one-woman, one-man, one-person shows. SoloMania! will present these performers in back-to-back solo shows in a variety of styles: including comedy, drama, puppetry, cabaret, monologue, storytelling, burlesque, and inter-media. 

Earlier this year, several New Orleans performers got together and agreed to share the 
expense of producing a mini-fest themselves. The line-up includes Bremner Fletcher Duthie, 
Veronica Russell, Frederick Mead, Harry Mayronne, Diana Shortez, Karen Shields, Jennifer Pagan, Amy Woodruff, Enzo Lombard, Brady McKellar, Claudia Baumgarten, Brad McEntire, and Casey Groves. Collectively, these performers have garnered a dazzling array of awards and international credits. More than performers, they are also writers, directors, musicians, drama teachers, puppeteers, and costume designers. 

WHAT: SoloMania Festival, 8 days of back-to-back solo shows.

WHEN: Saturday Nov 2 through Sunday Nov 10. (Note: Dark on Monday Nov 4)
Detailed schedule will be available in the SoloMania! Festival Guide in many local businesses.

WHERE: Shadowbox Theatre
2400 St. Claude Ave, at St Roch in the Marigny.
Parking, accessible bathrooms, and a bar.

COST: $10 per show (Discounted 5 show punch-cards available for $40)

DF380 in Dallas Morning News

Garett Fisbeck/The Dallas Morning News

Brad McEntire performs “Dribble Funk 380″, a 380 minute solo improvisation at Magnolia Lounge at Fair Park in Dallas, Aug. 31, 2013. McEntire is doing the performance as a challenge to himself as he is turning 38-years-old in September. (Garett Fisbeck/The Dallas Morning News)

Thanks to Garett for getting such nice shots.

RASPBERRY FIZZ at 2013 Houston Fringe

I am pleased to announce that my little one-act RASPBERRY FIZZ will be at the 2013 Houston Fringe Festival next month. 

RASPBERRY FIZZ is an exploration of expectations and the potentialities of the future tied up in a weird, tender and humorous coming-of-age encounter between two adolescents in 1949 small town America. 

The play was last seen in Addison, Texas in March of 2012 at the Water Tower Theatre's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. That was a well-reviewed production directed by Andy Baldwin and featured an kick-ass cast that included Shane Beeson, Natalie Young and Jeff Swearingen. I'm thrilled to take this charming little play on the road. 

I am pleased to team up with two of the cats who worked on CARTER STUBBS TAKES FLIGHT in Denton last spring. RASPBERRY FIZZ will feature Travis Stuebing as Ellson, Tashina Richardson as Samantha and me as the Barker. Directed by me, Brad McEntire. 

Details:
Playing... 
Friday, October 4 at 8 PM, Saturday, October 5 at 9:30 PM, Sunday, October 6 at 3:30 PM

At Bohemeo's Cafe and Theatre
708 Telephone Road, 
Houston, TX 77023 

Tickets and more info at the Houston Fringe Festival website. Or more info HERE.