For theater lovers, a festival offers an opportunity to indulge.  But there’s an advantage for artists too: festivals provide adventuresome audiences primed for testing new ideas.  One new idea debuting at this year’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival comes from Dallas actor Donald Fowler.  Tonight, Fowler debuts his latest play, Creep, with a staged reading. The piece is loosely based on the story of Jack the Ripper, only Fowler’s play is set to music. I sat down with Fowler to talk about turning a murderer’s tale into a musical.

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