NY Int'l Fringe Fest Announces 200 Shows At 20 Theaters

The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will celebrate its 15th anniversary this summer. From August 12 - 28, the festival will offer programming by 200 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies in 20 venues in Lower Manhattan. With attendance topping 75,000 people, FringeNYC is New York City's fifth largest cultural event (just behind New York International Auto Show, Tribeca Film Festival, New York City Marathon, and New York Comic Con).

A complete list of accepted shows has just gone out to FringeNYC's Facebook Fans. The list is below. Highlights of the 15th Anniversary festival include many returning alumni, including:

• Yeast Nation (the trumph of life)
Urinetown creators Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann premiere their
latest musical. Yeast Nation is an original 15-performer musical set
on the bottom of the primordial sea that tells the tale of earth's
first creatures as they struggle to survive and, ultimately, evolve.
AUDIENCES CAN GET A FIRST LISTEN TO SONGS FROM THIS NEW MUSICAL COMEDY
ON MAY 5TH AT THE Laurie Beechman THEATER AS PART OF THE
FRINGEBENEFITS SERIES.

• Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera
Snooki, The Situation, Ronnie and Sammi get skewered in this musical
parody of the popular MTV show by Daniel Franzese (title role of the
hit indie film Bully, Mean Girls opposite Lindsay Lohan and cast of
the FringeNYC hit Dog Sees God) and Hanna LoPatin (FringeNYC's The
Sound of One Hanna Clapping). Karen DiConcetto (of the cult hit pop
duo Daphne & Celeste and the FringeNYC hits Dog Sees God & I Dig Doug)
plays Snooki. Participants from 5 different past FringeNYC shows have
come together to create this project.

• Greenland
Bridge Theatre Company, an NYC-based company devoted to presenting
Canadian plays in the US, bring this award-winning drama by Nicolas
Billon (selected as one of the Top 10 Theatre Artists of 2009 by
Toronto's Now Magazine) to the New York stage. Receding ice levels off
the coast of Greenland have revealed that an area thought to be part
of the mainland is actually a separate island. This discovery mirrors
a growing rift between the island's discoverer and his increasingly
distant family, set adrift after a catastrophic loss. Last year,
Bridge presented the FringeNYC hit The Swearing Jar.

• I Light Up My Life: the Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography
The latest play by Sam Mark Rosenthal, writer/performer of the
controversial FringeNYC -to-Off Broadway hit Blanche Survives Katrina
in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire. Witness a book-tour "reading" from the
autobiography of a celebrity that you have never heard of.

• PigPen Presents: The Mountain Song
Last year PigPen Presents: The Nightmare Story became one of the
surprise hits of the festival. This year this quirky, inventive
troupe from Pittsburgh returns with tale of a carpenter who climbs
mountains and traverses rivers in order to attend his daughter's
wedding - without a clue as to where its taking place.

• American Vaudeville Theatre 15th Anniversary ExTRAVaganza
Some of NYC's top variety acts co-mingle with a core company
performing producer/host Trav S.D.'s surreal and satirical songs and
comedy sketches drawn from a decade and a half of downtown
performance.

In November 2007, FringeNYC was honored by Mayor Michael Bloomberg
with the Mayor's Award for Arts & Culture "for its phenomenal
leadership in showcasing the best and boldest theater and performance
by both established and emerging artists. The New York International
Fringe Festival is renowned for presenting work that reflects the
excitement and energy of the contemporary theater world - locally,
nationally and abroad." Previous recipients of the award include
Woody Allen, Celia Cruz, Stephen Sondheim, Wynton Marsalis, The
Tribeca Film Festival, Mark Morris, The Public Theater, Chita Rivera,
and Edward Albee.

In 2011, many of New York City's most prominent downtown performance
venues will host productions from around the globe as part of
FringeNYC. Past participant venues, ranging in size from 50 to 700
seats, include Lucille Lortel Theater, SoHo Playhouse, Players
Theater, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Cherry Lane Theatre,
Actors Playhouse, Barrow Street Theater, Minetta Lane Theater, P.S.
122, and The Village Theater. FringeNYC is a production of The Present
Company, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Elena K.
Holy.

In 1997, New York City became the seventh US city to host a fringe
festival, joining Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Houston,
Orlando and San Francisco. In its first 14 years FringeNYC has
presented over 2400 performing groups from the U.K., Canada, Poland,
Ireland, Japan, China, Singapore, Germany, the Czech Republic and
across the U.S., prompting Switzerland's national daily, The New
Zurich Zeitung, to declare FringeNYC as "the premiere meeting ground
for alternative artists." The festival has also been the launching pad
for numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway transfers, long-running
downtown hits, and regional Theater Productions including Urinetown,
Never Swim Alone, Debbie Does Dallas, Dog Sees God, 21 Dog Years,
Krapp 39, Dixie's Tupperware Party, Silence! The Musical, Matt & Ben,
Bash'd, The Irish Curse, and 666 and as well as movies (WTC View,
Armless) and even a TV show (‘da Kink in My Hair).

FringeNYC shows run 2pm - midnight weekdays and noon - midnight on
weekends. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door available
beginning July 22 at www.FringeNYC.org or 866-468.7619. Discount
passes for multiple shows ($70 for a Fiver Pass, $120 for a Flex Pass
good for 10 shows, and $500 for an all-you-can-see Lunatic Pass) are
also available. For more information visit www.FringeNYC.org.

FringeNYC 2011 ACCEPTED SHOW TITLES:

...unwanted
22 Stories
A Little More Than You Wanted to Spend
A Modest Suggestion
After Anne Frank
All Atheists Are Muslim
All Gone West
All the Windows on Alcatraz
American Mud
American Vaudeville Theatre 15th Anniversary ExTRAVaganza
Ampersand: A Romeo & Juliet Story
An Improvised Explosive Device
Anna & The Annadroids: Memoirs of a Robot Girl
Araby
As the Boat Approaches
Away of man
Back to the Garden
Banshee
Be Careful! The Sharks Will Eat You!
Before Placing Me On Your Shelf
Bella and the Pool Boy
Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies
BLANK
Bobby & Matt
Bongani
Books on Tape
Brave Ducks
BREAK
Bringing It Home
Browsing
Butoh Electra
Call Mr. Robeson
Carnival Knowledge: Love, Lust, and Other Human Oddities
Cassanova Was A Woman
Chagrin
Chasing Heaven
CHELA
Chien De Moi
COATSVILLE BURNS! Or the Story of a Boy Who Brought a Town to its Knees
COBU
Courtney and Kathleen: A Riot Act
Cow Play
Craving
Crawling with Monsters
Daja Vu
Dancing In The Garden
Destinations
Die Like Moths
Donna/Madonna
dreamplay
Dystopia Gardens
Em O'Loughlin used to be a big FATTY BOOMBAH!
Epic Win Burlesque's The Star Debate: Trek vs. Wars
facebook me
Faye Drummond
Felony Friday
Fit
Flaccid Penis Seeks Vaginal Dryness
Fourteen Flights
Garden District
Genograms
GIN AND MILK
Gleeam
Goldilocks and the Three Polar Bears
Grand Canyon or Abraham Lincoln, Jack Kerouac, and Joseph Stalin's Wild Ride
Greenland
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
HANS
Happily Ever After
HAPPY WORST DAY EVER
Hard Travelin' with Woody
Heads
Hello, My Name Is Billy
Heroes and Other Strangers
Hip.Bang! Improv
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lost My Virginity
HOW. WHAT. NOW.
HUSHHH! The Musical
I Light Up My Life: the Mark Sam Celebrity Autobiography
I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe
I Will Be Good
If I Drown I Can Swim
In Search of Shiva
In the Summer Pavilion
Infectious Opportunity
ISTWA! Storytime for a small world
I've been Elvita Adams
Jeffery Dahmer Live
Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera
Jerusalem of Gold
Keepers
Killing John Grisham
Killing Nellie
Lady X
landscapes of HOME
Le Gourmand or Gluttony!
Leonard Cohen Koans
Life Insurance
Life Love Sex Death...and other works in progress
Lipshtick
Little Girl Blue
Lola-Lola
Losers
Lou
Love In A Tub
Mabel Normand: The Girl Who Ate Ice Cream For Breakfast
Mama Juggs: Three Generations Healing Negative Body Images
Mic.
Moshe Feldstein, Icon of Self-Realization
MOTHER...she's with you wherever you go
Mush
Never Look in the Mirror When You're Dancing
Nils' Fucked Up Day
No-Fault: A tale about the big D in the big apple
Noir
One, Two Whatever You Do
ORAL
Our Man
Paper Cut
PARKER AND DIZZY'S FABULOUS JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE RAINBOW
Pawn
Pearl's Gone Blue
PigPen Presents: The Mountain Song
Poe-Dunk
Portrait and a Dream
Poteet Girls
RACHEL CALOF
Recovery
Right Cross Rhapsody or With A Song in My Fists
Rollerblading in Gaza
Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending
Sacrifice
Salamander Stew
SAMMY GETS MUGGED!
Scared of Sarah
SHOUT! mime troupe: Words Don't Work
SHUFRA
Small Engine Repair
Smoke The New Cigarette
Smoking Section
Submitted by C. Randall McCloskey
Super Sidekick: The Musical
Te Busco
Technodoulia Dot Com
The Apartment: A Play With Four Sides
The Average-Sized Mermaid
The Bad Arm - Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer
The Ballad of Rusty and Roy
The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady
The Big "A"
The Bobbed-Haired Bandit
The Booby Prize
The Bus
The Chalks: An American Family in 3 Chords
The Chamber
The Classroom
The Cockroach Dialogues
The Custodian
The Darling by Two Chekhovs
The Day the Sky Turned Black
The Disorientation of Butterflies
The Dreaming, the Dreamer, and the Dreamt
The Eternal Husband
The F*cking World According To Molly
The Fairy Hoax
The Flowers of Fantastico
The Fundamentalist
The Interim
The Lady Drug Dealer and the Heist
The Language Makers
The Lost and Found
The Meanest Guy That Ever Lived
The Miss Teen Jesus Pageant
The More Loving One
The Musical That Killed Everybody!
The Panic Diaries
The Payback
The Power of the Crystals
The Rubber Room
The Seed of Abraham
The Three Times She Knocked
The Toughest Girl Alive
The Town of No One
The Tutor
The Underbelly Diaries redux
The Unhappiness Plays
The Unsung Diva
The Uprising
The Women Of Tu-Na House
Theater of the Arcade: Five Classic Video Games Adapted for the Stage
There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly And Other Heroines That Reach For The
This One Time in Last Chance
Top Drawer
Treasure Ally
Two Alone/Too Together
Victor and Victoria's Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things
Vignettes of an I-talian-American Girl!
Virgie
Virtual Solitaire
Walls and Bridges
Wallstories
Water Sonata
Welcome to Eternity
WHALE SONG
What The Sparrow Said
When the Sky Breaks
Who Loves You, Baby?
Wilhelmstrasse
Winner Take All (A Rock Opera)
WORDS
YA MAMA
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
You Only Shoot the Ones You Love
You've Ruined a Perfectly Good Mystery!
Zombie Wedding

 

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