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The last S.F. Fringe Festival is going out with a bang and a rumpus
Los Angeles performer Kazu Kusano, recounting her journey from a Japanese childhood to artistic fulfillment in the U.S. in “Pretty Beast,” is a consummate storyteller, keen of insight, crisp of gesture, wicked of attitude. You might find yourself wanting to steal her delivery of her punch line…
Arts Forecast: EXIT Theatre is closing its doors, but it’s far from defeated
…Remaining programming includes the final Eddy Street Theater-located Fringe Fest, whose 84 performances—including Pretty Beast, an autobiographical show by our Arts Forecast cover star Kazu Kusano on a class clown discovering her own super powers—will run September 8-17…
Spiky comedy by way of Japan
Kusano, the mastermind of the one-woman show, has always been the funny girl — a role that has empowered and disempowered her growing up.
“As a survival tool, I got this comedic skill. I became a funny girl,” Kusano said.
Vancouver Fringe Festival review: Pretty Beast
Kazu Kusano’s hilarious and devastating Pretty Beast tells the story of how she ended up in L.A. at 35 years old, making her unlikely dream of becoming a comedian and an actor come true. Sort of…
Vancouver Fringe Festival solo show: Pretty Beast
Former class clown Kazu Kusano pulls back the curtain on a childhood that was less than charmed
Making people laugh has always come easy for Kazu Kusano, which wasn’t always appreciated in her home country, Japan.
Reflecting on her childhood, the comedian, actor, and playwright remembers her sense of humour making her popular with her friends, but not with tradition-bound authority figures…