Matthew Foster

Matthew Foster sometimes creates theater but mostly is a graphic designer and web developer for nonprofit organizations, a lot of them artsy. He was communications director at Minnesota Fringe once. He went back to school recently to study the cultural dimension of republican citizenship and the history of how American performing arts contributed to political and social movements. He sings national anthems when he’s had too much to drink but doesn’t feel weird about it since most of them started out as drinking songs, anyhow.

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  • Is the Fringe still Fringey?

    Editorial

    During the festival’s opening weekend, I wrote that it felt like the Millennials were taking over—that there was a palpable...

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  • Day 1 -- Fringe Recap

    Editorial

    It was a pleasure to discover, between 5:30 and 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, that the theme I thought I’d selected...

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  • Power actors

    Review

    A few months ago, I wrote a review of the Guthrie’s Mr. Burns, a post-electric play and that review led...

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  • Which Woody Guthrie is yours?

    Review

    Few questions reveal more about an American’s soul than, “Which verses of ‘This Land Is Your Land’ do you know?”...

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  • Pop culture explodes

    Review

    Before I wax all philosophical, let me get this out of the way: If you understand the term “dysfunctional” as...

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  • Nature is transcendent

    Review

    When I was in high school in the early 1990s, there were two ways for literary-minded students to express their...

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