Immigration-Focused Plays Among Wide-Ranging Works At This Year’s St. Lou Fringe Festival

To describe the St. Lou Fringe Festival as a theater event is something of a misnomer. There are plenty of actors, playwrights and other theater professsionals involved in the annual six-day-long extravaganza that gets underway this Tuesday. But there are also poets, dancers, performance artists, sculptors, burlesque performers and improv acts. This year’s offerings also run the gamut with offerings by established and experienced playwrights as well as emerging artists and previously untested work. That’s by design, according to organizer Matthew Kerns. He and playwright Shannon Geier, whose local headline act “Check In” will help kick off the festival, talk with host Sarah Fenske.