As the New Orleans Fringe Fest rolls on, so too do NoDef reviews. The latest helping includes tales of being buried alive, new takes on the works of Edward Gorey cards and Shakespeare and intimacy. Click through to peruse:

Tonight, the Hot 8 Brass Band releases their new album on Frenchmen, and you can check out some erotic academia tonight on St. Claude. Fringe performances continue, and a parade at 2pm welcomes in this year’s theatre season. On this day in 1906, the first Louisiana Fair was held up in Shreveport. Read more to find out what's going on this Saturday.

The New Orleans Fringe Festival returned Thursday night with a whole new round of shows to roll out. Once again, NoDef's team was out to take in what this year's extravaganza has to offer. Read our latest crop of reviews, and keep checking back for more:

Ready for more? NoDef's second helping of New Orleans Fringe Fest are up, and the range of the festival is on full display. From dance to shadow puppetry to a man and his guitar, these reviews should help bring up the finer points to ease scheduling anxiety. Click through for the reviews:

With performers planting and ready to bloom in the Crescent City for the weekend, The New Orleans Fringe Festival arrived for its annual installment Wednesday night. NoDef's crack team of reviewers fanned out across the Marigny-Bywater and beyond to get the early skinny on what the alt-theatre extravaganza has to offer this year. From dance to puppetry to feral creatures to sex references that make people squirm, this year's installment seems poised to test the limits of one festival once again. Here's some reviews:

The New Orleans Fringe Festival has never had a problem attracting variety.  For the fifth year in a row the “fringiest of Fringes” is rolling out more venues and acts than the previous year, and from November 14-18, the environs of the Marigny and Bywater will once again resemble an Olympic Village of the Fantastic and Freaky as traveling troupes arrive to perform alongside local representatives.

The cool front moving in means fall is fast approaching, and the breeze is bringing a heaping helping of fall theatre offerings with it. From Paris to Shanghai to the underbelly of New York City, Jessa Bingham runs down where New Orleans stages are transporting us over the next few months. 

by Mark Folse

I can think of no better measure of the success of playwright Mark Leiren-Young’s Shylock than the heated discussion I had with my son driving home from the Backyard Ballroom. A thoughtful young man of 16 who’s frequent reaction to life is “meh” or “OK”, he animatedly recounted a classroom argument over the portrayal of blacks in William Faulkner’s A Dry September, and remembered the sanitized Huck Finn he read in school, in which the word "nigger" never appeared.

Today in New Orleans, there's no whiff of bye week blues., Fringe Fest closes down (with an after p[arty at SIberia), there's the Oak Street Po-Boy Fest, opera a second line and more! In the olden days, New Jersey became the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights (we can’t believe it either, 1789), The Nuremberg Trials began (1945), ‘Cabaret’ opened on Broadway (1966), Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released (1985), Robert F. Kennedy (1925) and Joe Biden (1943) were born, Leo Tolstoy died (1910), and it’s Universal Children’s Day. So feel like a kid again with the following:

Today, the Bayou Road Brewhaha celebrates Broad St., Fringe fest continues everywhere (including a second performance at the Music Box), and there's an afternoon parade to prove it. But before such lawlessness, Bonnie and Clyde committed their first robbery (1930),  and the Nintendo Wii first went n sale (2006); it’s when Larry King (1933), Calvin Klein (1942), and Jodie Foster (1963) were born, and when Franz Schubert (1828), Emma Lazarus (1887), and Joe Hill (1915) died. It’s also World Toilet Day- so flush it down with these: