WHY YOU BEASTING? Sells Out at FringeNYC Prior to Opening
By: Tyler Peterson Aug. 08, 2013
The 17th annual The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, runs August 9 - 25, 2013. The festival offers programming from 185 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies in 20 venues in downtown Manhattan. With attendance topping 75,000 people, FringeNYC is New York City's fifth largest annual public event (just behind New York International Auto Show, Tribeca Film Festival, New York City Marathon, and New York Comic Con). Shows represent 13 countries and 17 U.S. states and an array of genres including drama, comedy, classical theater, dance, performance art, puppetry, clowning, and children's theater. A complete schedule of performances is available at www.FringeNYC.org.
On Wednesday, Why You Beasting? became the first show of the 2013 festival to sell out its entire run. Several productions have already sold out multiple individual performances including: Rubble, Big Dummy, Cowboy's Don't Sing, Off The Desk, Bellini and the Sultan, and Snakes I Have Known. Other best-sellers include The Rufus Equation, Gertrude Stein Saints!, Luke Nicholas, The TomKat Project, Someone To Belong To, Peninsula, Horse Play, What Every Girl Should Know, Perfectly Normel People and Playing God.Videos