Worth Considering
In each performance of the delightfully earnest “Fangs and Bangs (and Sangs),” performers from other Fringe shows join actor Nissa Nordland onstage for dramatic readings of a rotating selection of her high school diaries and vampire fan fiction, which they’re seeing for the first time right then. (As Nordland notes in her signature gleeful style, she scraped floppy disks for this show.) If you were also cringeworthy and angsty and maybe a little hormonal on the early internet, you’ll love it. The interstitial musical numbers don’t add much, but rollicking readings have the audience in stitches — and Nordland’s real-time reactions are a treat, too.
Presented by Special When Lit at the Southern Theater; 7 p.m. July 31, 10 p.m. Aug. 3, 8:30 p.m. Aug. 7, 2:30 p.m. Aug. 9, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 10
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The Minnesota Fringe Festival is presenting nearly 100 hourlong stage acts from July 31 through Aug. 10 around Minneapolis. Visit MinnesotaFringe.org for ticket and show information.
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