{"id":8648,"date":"2011-10-19T21:20:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T02:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2011-10-19T21:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T02:20:24","slug":"fronkensteen-experimental-theatre-group-opens-the-stages-at-the-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/10\/19\/fronkensteen-experimental-theatre-group-opens-the-stages-at-the-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group Opens the Stages at the Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>Written by Ricky Steven Young Jr.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47600\" title=\"The Coup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/thecoup-200x146.jpg\" alt=\"The Coup\" width=\"200\" height=\"146\" \/><\/span><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On Thursday October 20th and Friday October 21st, the Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group will host an open stage at The Coup on Crossland Avenue at 9:00pm. Admission is donations only.<\/p>\n<p>Fronkensteen is a non profit theatre group that opened its first season this year and is eagerly anticipating opening its second season next year. All acts wishing to participate should arrive early because the order will be taken at the door at 8:30pm. The first fifteen acts to arrive will make it onstage. The admission is donations only and all donations will go to funding Fronkensteen\u2019s next second season.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fronkensteen\u2019s Artistic Director Ricky Steven Young Jr. promises that \u201cOpen Stage\u201d means that literally anything goes. \u201cWe will not turn away anyone or any act.\u201d Young says, \u201cOpen Stages are great because, unlike open mic nights that want only musicians or comedians, they have people from all over the artistic world like poets, singers, jugglers, dancers, actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fronkensteen has dedicated itself to creating a vibrant artistic community in Clarksville. \u201cThis is what I helped create Fronkensteen for\u2026 to create a new artistic community in Clarksville for a new generation of artists.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Ricky Steven Young Jr. Clarksville, TN &#8211; On Thursday October 20th and Friday October 21st, the Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group will host an open stage at The Coup on Crossland Avenue at 9:00pm. Admission is donations only. Fronkensteen is a non profit theatre group that opened its first season this year and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[825,8457,8454,11286,6837,2905],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8650,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions\/8650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}