Hollywood Fringe Announces 2017 Fringe Central Space

Hollywood Fringe Festival organizers are proud to announce that the 2017 Fringe Central social space will be hosted at a new club located in what was formerly known as The Dragonfly, on Theatre Row at 6510 Santa Monica Blvd. The venue is set to open in June, with Hollywood Fringe being one of the first guests of the new club.

Fringe Central is the community center of the festival, featuring major Fringe events, concierge staff, and the festival box office, as well as free programming, a bar, food trucks, and Fringe merchandise. The space serves not only as a place for Fringe-goers to unwind but also as a gathering place for those wishing to network, distribute flyers or hold meetings.

"Fringe Central has forged a reputation as a social epicenter of the festival and a basecamp to develop relationships that blossom into future artistic collaborations," says Festival Director Ben Hill. "We are honored to share this new, versatile space on Theatre Row with the Fringe community."

Fringe Central is also home to the Fringe Concierge service. Staffed with friendly faces deeply familiar with the operations of the festival, Concierge assists Fringe-goers with tickets, times, information and merchandise.

This is also the location of Bryan's Bar, the infamous Fringe watering hole, designed as a place for artists, audiences, producers and local community members to mix and mingle. Anyone with a Fringe Button will receive discounts on Fringe bar items as well as deals at local Hot Spots.

Fringe Central will officially open to the public on June 7th for the Opening Night Party. There will also be a Fringe Runway event, a Fringe Prom, and regular installments of Fringe Cabaret (the sampler platter of the Hollywood Fringe buffet).

The venue is 18+ only. Learn about more Fringe Central happenings on the Fringe blog.

The festival will take place June 8th-25th, 2017 preceded by a week of previews (June 1st-6th). In 2016, the festival sold approximately 56,000 tickets, with all ticket sales going back to participating artists and venues. The event continues to be one of the largest uncensored performing arts festivals in the country.

ABOUT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Each June during the Hollywood Fringe, the arts infiltrates the Hollywood neighborhood: Fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers.

Participation in the Hollywood Fringe is completely open and uncensored. This free-for-all approach underlines the festival's mission to be a platform for artists without the barrier of a curative body. By opening the gates to anyone with a vision, the festival is able to exhibit the most diverse and cutting-edge points-of-view the world has to offer. Additionally, by creating an environment where artists must self-produce their work, the Fringe motivates its participants to cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurialism in the arts.

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