Tickets Now On Sale for 14th Annual Philly Fringe, Runs 9/3-18

Tickets are now on sale for the 14th annual Philly Fringe, which runs in conjunction with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival from September 3 - 18. The Philly Fringe will host 183 artists or companies performing 188 shows in venues throughout Philadelphia for the largest Fringe in festival history, topping 2009's record breaking number of productions. The 2010 Fringe line-up will include theater, dance, comedy, performance art, music, poetry, puppetry, visual art, and work that incorporates multiple genres and disciplines, offering audiences the excitement of discovering new work from the region's vibrant performing arts community as well as artists from around the country.

In the "unfiltered" Philly Fringe, festival artists present their work free of a selection process to create a show with box office and marketing support. For some, participating in the Fringe is a once-a-year or once-in-a-lifetime opportunity while, for many professional companies participating it can be an opportunity to debut their newest work to the Festival's audiences.

Artists in this year's Philly Fringe hail from Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania cities and suburbs, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Washington D.C., Ohio, and as far away as Georgia, Tennessee, and California.

"Now in our 14th year, the Philly Fringe is well on its way to becoming the largest Fringe festival in the country," says John Emory, Philly Fringe Coordinator. "We've seen record-breaking participation that continues to grow each year. We're literally spilling in to the streets, turning our entire city into one giant stage!"

In conjunction with the Fringe, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival features performances by international and local acclaimed contemporary performing artists who are selected and invited to the Festival. Together, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe draw over 30,000 people who come to be a part of "Festival time" in the city, experience innovative work, meet new people, and interact with thousands of artists.

TICKETS
All Philly Fringe tickets, along with Live Arts Festival tickets, are now available for purchase online at www.livearts-fringe.org, or after August 23 by calling the Box Office at (215) 413-1318, or visiting in person. Tickets for most Philly Fringe shows are between $10 and $30. The Festival Box Office at The Hub is located at 626 North 5th Street (SW Corner of 5th and Fairmount Streets) in Northern Liberties and features free parking. For Box Office hours and additional ticketing information, visit www.livearts-fringe.org/box-office-ticket-info.cfm.

THEATER
Several established theater artists and companies in Philadelphia's performing arts community will present at 2010's Philly Fringe, including the New Orleans-transplanted EgoPo Productions, who will follow up last year's interactive production of Samuel Beckett's Company (one of the Top 10 shows of the 2009-2010 season, Philadelphia Weekly), with The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.

Theatre Exile will make their Fringe debut with Rona Munro's Iron, starring F. Otto Haas Award recipient Catharine Slusar (Act II's Any Given Monday, InterAct's Frozen) and Barrymore Award-winner Kim Carson (Brat Production's Haunted Poe, Azuka Theatre's Hedwig and the Angry Inch).

Many other local Festival favorites will be returning for this year's Fringe including IdRatherBeHere, the company behind the sold-out Wawapalooza series ('07-'09). This year, the company will present the next chapter in the parody series, the World premiere of Wawapalooza 4: Damaged Goods. After 180 performances across the nation, Iron Age Theatre will make their homecoming with Marx in Soho. The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, Luna Theater Company, Madhouse Theater Company, Plays & Players, and Tribe of Fools, will also be among this year's returning favorites.

DANCE
Philly Fringe dance highlights include Leah Stein Dance Company with percussionist Toshi Makihara taking audiences on a dance journey through the 17th Century Shofuso Japanese House and Garden in Fairmount Park. Pink Hair Affair will present the world premiere of Meld, a celebration of Philadelphia's melting pot of creativity, while MM2 Modern Dance (formerly known as Music & Motion Dance Productions) returns to the Fringe for a sixth year. Other returning dance artists include Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble, keila kordova dances, Mascher Dance, Vada Dance Collective, and Xhale Dance Company.

IMPROV / COMEDY
A popular destination for improvisational theater, stand-up, and sketch comedy, the Philly Fringe will include comedy and improv groups such as Fringe veterans The N Crowd, The Waitstaff, and Philly Improv Theater.

INTERDISCIPLINARY
The Fringe will also showcase many other performing arts disciplines including music from Center City Opera Theater, Poor Richard's Opera, SRUTI The India Music and Dance Society, and Xtreme Folk Scene who are returning for their eighth year with the festival. Interdisciplinary performances will be presented by Cuddle Magic & Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, Green Light Arts, and Represented Theatre Company, with puppetry from Little Bunny Voodoo, and visual art from Daniel Barrow, Linda Dubin Garfield, and Sam Green, among others. Inspired by 2007's treasure hunt through Philadelphia, AFOOT!, the Brothers Cromie will present another free walkabout for this year's Fringe that will explore the giant game board of Northern Liberties with AFOOT 2!: Northern Liberties.

FESTIVAL BAR
Each night of the Festival will end at The Festival Bar, a unique experiential venue which premiered at the 2008 Festival. Against a backdrop of artist installations, The Festival Bar serves as a versatile after-hours space for Festival goers to interact with artists, socialize with one another, grab a cocktail and enjoy delicious food, music and more at the end of each Festival day. This year, the bar moves to the former Club Egypt on the Southwest corner of Spring Garden and Columbus Boulevard in Northern Liberties. Festival Bar admission is free, and 21+.

2010 Philly Fringe Participants [artists and show titles subject to change]

COMEDY/IMPROV

Angry People Building Things - Angry People Build Things

Bare Hug - Bare Hug Sketch Comedy Show

Casaburdan Productions - Now Showing: In Real to Reel Live Action 3-D!

Fred Siegel - Man of Mystery

High Dramma - High Dramma Low Comedy
Philly Improv Theater - Punchline
Philly Improv Theater - m@& - Improv Comedy

Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) - Activity Book

Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) - Fletcher

Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) - King Friday

Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) - PHIT's Improv "Tasting"

Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) - PHIT's Side of Sketch

Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) - The Improvised Soap Opera

Rick Horner and Wally Zialcita - ZACHERLE a prequel to the Last Mummer

Rookie Card - Rookie Card: Too Big For Our Britches
TAP - Best of POP! Sketch Comedy for the Gifted
The N Crowd - Improv Comedy: The N Crowd

The Real Housewives of Philadelphia - Main Line-O-Mania!

The Second Place Champions - Greetings from New Jersey! A comedy about growing up and living in the
great "Garden State!"
The Waitstaff - The Real Housewives of South Philly

DANCE

Abby Shunskis - Picking up Pieces

ALT - Questioning Drive

Artistry Dance Company & coEXISTdance - NEWances

Between Movement Contemporary Dance Company - From the Inside [OUT]

Briel Driscoll, Colleen McNally, Tess Stumpf, and Nikki Roberts - Flat Intersections

Colleen Hooper and ElizaBeth Reynolds - I saved this for you

Dancefusion & 360 Dance Company - Joint Concert

Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Rain Ross - Absence/Presence

Esther's Cavalcade of Stars - Esther's Cavalcade of Stars

FlyGround/Brownbody - FlyGround/Brownbody

Gina Hoch-Stall - The Evolution of Movement

KAOS DAnceCo.- Life...thus far

Keila Cordova - As Big As The World

Kelly Bond - Elephant

Kelly Turner/ Choreosplat Dance Works - What's Been Done

Lawrence-Herchenroether Dance Company - Source

Leah Stein Dance Company - Japan House/Philadelphia

Mascher Dance - Fresh Juice

MegLouise Dance - I learned Not to Kneel

MM2 - Emergence

Persona Zenobia Dance Ensemble - Black and Blue Every 9:sec

pillardance company - "The initiative" plus excerpts from "Nightmare Returns"

Pink Hair Affair - Meld

Scorch - SCORCH

Sister's Sirens - Chrysalis

The Blind Faith Project and Maria Urrutia - Unraveling the Lace

The Jessica Karrate Dance Scholarship Fund - In Honor Of...

Tiffany Brooke Dow - Bang! Zoom! Pow! A Story of Broken Borders

Vada Dance Collective - In White Rooms

Xhale Dance Company - A Broken World

 

HAPPENINGS

The Brothers Cromie - AFOOT 2!

INTERDISCIPLINARY

Charm/Strange Experience - Let Go of the Ego

COSACOSA art at large, inc. - Changing Places

Cuddle Magic & Philadelphia's Magic Gardens - Cuddle Magic Gardens

Duende Flamenco Fusion Band - Rosa de la Alhambra

Ellen Fishman-Johnson - This Art Burning

Green Light Arts - The Waiting Room

Grounded Aerial - InsectInside

InMovement Dance - Gravity Theater

Jenn Rose/Steve Pack/Dan Kazemi - Untitled Project #213

KineticArchitecture - Goose Feathers: Nursery Rimes for kids over 18!

Lous DeVaughn Nelson - Man Bites Dog

Media Mobilizing Project Art & Culture Collective - Whose City?

Misty Sol and Charly Brownskin - American Nigga Zoo

Movement Brigade - Constants

Represented Theatre Company - Lynch Quietly

Rev9 Dance and Performance Company - FACTORY

Rita Lyman and the Found Objects - Potential is Not Reality

Rocky and Friends - Seal Moon

Rose Luardo and Joanna S. Quigley - You Are Me

Sarah Mittledorf - Spill

Sphia Hoffer-Perkins - In Constant Perfection

SQUIRM - GO FRINGE YOURSELF!

Stephanie Weber/COH eNsemble: Creatures of Habitat Physical Poetry Performance Group -
habitat (de) fragmentation

The Field/Philadelphia - Dirty Dozen

MUSIC

ANJ - Casual World; Intimate Heart

Center City Opera Theater - ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera Presents Love/Hate

Christine Campbell - Journeys of the Wolf

Cory O'Niell Walker - L'Heure Exquise: The Exquisite Hour

Felon Fiercely - Felon Fiercely: Live at the Apocalypse

Poor Richard's Opera - The Marriage of Figaro - The Las Vegas Version

Quinn Compostions - Sephro

Rainbow Destroyer - Zombies are Forever

SRUTI The India Music and Dance Society - L. Subramaniam In Concert

THE PARACHUTING APOSTLES - Best of Philly Music: Frame by Frame

Xtreme Folk Scene - Philly Song Shuffle

 

THEATER

2 Guys and a Duck Theatre - 9mm of Love

AAI Productions - 7 Sins in 60 Minutes

Act Normal Theatre Company - Kid Out of Nowhere

AGGROCRAG - Hello from the Children of Planet Earth

Alexis Clements - Conversation

Allison Garrett - The Rocky Horror Show

Andre Jones - Verbalized Ink

Applied Mechanics - Portmanteau

Armando Batista - M.A.C.H.O?

Artifact Pictures - Shepherd of the Letters

Averagazzi - Why Can't Zanni Read?

Barbara Pease Weber - A Crock of Schnitzel

Barracuda Carmela - Tales

Beverly Dale - An Irreverent Journey from Eggbeaters to Vibrators

Bright Light Theatre Company - Precipice

Butros and Bels Theatrical Emporium - Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?

Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company - Droit du Seigneur

David Morely Barrett - More Better Life

Dawson Street Dramatic Society - Dead Air: The Final Broadcast of the Zombie Apocalypse

Depravity Productions - Fuge State

Destiny Productions Theater Ensemble - A New Shade of Blue

Dette Glashouwer - Yes To Live; Yes To Love

DysFUNctional Theater - Statements After an Arrest Under the Immortality Act

EgoPo - The Persection and Assasination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of
Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Emma Gibson - Tiny Dynamite

ETC Theater - Destiation Summer

Ettyplay inc - ETTY

Frederick Tenuto Company - How to Solve a Bear

Fresh Meat - THE ARGYLE STATION

Gas & Electric Arts - Between Trains

Gerhardus van Wilgen - SS Elisabeth

Haha Productions - Love-Nothing

Hella Fresh Theater - Cheap Guy HOF, Class of 2010

Historical Theatre Acting Troupe - The Play "Ben"

Hope Street Theater - Marisol

Hyphen: Nation Arts - The Jane Goodall Experience

IdRatherBeHere - Wawapalooza 4: Damaged Goods

Insomniak Theatre Company - AlterNative Theatre Festival

Iron Age Theatre - Marx in Soho

JMJ Productions - The New & Improved Stages of Grief

Joseph P. Blake - A Separate Sun

Kevin Ginsberg - House Arrest/Watergate the Musical

Little Bunny Voodoo - A Tale of Two Brains

Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern - 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane

Lucky Leo Theatre Company - Dinner With The Leos

Luna Theater Company - Thom Pain (based on nothing)

Madhosue Theater Company - Dysfictional Circumstances

Marc Hoffman - Bee Man Play

Mark T Evans, Zac Kline & Eric Kubo - King of Ghosts

MCCC Drama Club - The Seat

Media Res Theater Company - A Lesson in Dead Language by Adrienne Kennedy

Michael Dutka - The Crowded House

Nevermore Theater - The Tell-Tale Heart

Ocelot on a Leash Theater Company - Prudence

Off-Color Theatre Company - No-Talent Hacks

One Man Sideshow - Groundhog Hour

One Percent Productions - Saucy Biblical Tales

Parade Ground Unit - Judith/Dresses/Joe

Parallax Theatre Company - Love & Cruelty: Sarah Kane In The Raw (Phaedra's Love & 4.48 Psychosis)

Persephone Productions - Ariane/Job's Tears

Philadelphia Acting Studio - THE ACTING CLASS

Philadelphia's Artists' Collective/Damon Bonetti - Life is a Dream

Philadelphia Performance Project - Week Between The Holiday

Philadelphia Joke Initiative - Cecily and Gwendolyn's Fantastical Paranormal and Quantum Entanglement
Experiment

Plays & Players - Hear Again Radio Project

Plays & Players - Titus Andronicus

Plays & Players - Super Heroes Who Are Super!

Possibility Productions - Song for Ugly Voices

Ramey and Ramey Productions - The Search for Samuel's Love

Reap What You Sow Productions - Mindless Drivel

Red Square Theatre - Lunch Lady Tarot

Second Sight Theatre Company - Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Secret Room Theatre - Dirty Laundry

Smile-Frown and Insomnia Theater - 54: A New Rock Musical!

SmokeyScout Productions - Boat Hole: another evening of outrageous short comedies by Josh McIlvain

Studio 1831 - Vamps and Vixens Vaudeville Revue

Team Yeshe - ALL VICTORIOUS OCEAN: The Noble Life of Yeshe Tsogyal, Tantric Yogini

Telephone Bronco - Cartogoraphasia

The Barking Cat Theatre Company - APPLESAUCE IN PURGATORY, or LET'S GET CRITICAL

The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium - The Madwoman of Chaillot

The Outfit - Jester's Dead

The Porch Room - Signs from God

The Theater Cooperative - The Gangster Chronicles

The University of the Arts Theater Department - Polaroid Stories

Theatre Exile - Iron

The Fun Boys - Radio Contest

Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater - Tongue & Groove

Tony Devaney Morinelli - When Lilacs Last

Tony Tambasco/Mary Baldwin College M. Litt/ MFA Program - The Merry Devil of Edmonton

Traveling Jones Theater - Edgar Allen Poe Comes Alive!

Tribe of Fools - Dracula

World Festival Network - How Does the World's Largest Arts Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Work?

Yes! And...'s SHADOW Company - Flash

 

VISUAL

Daniel Barrow - Winnipeg Babysitter

Hokes Archives - The Association for Creative Zoology

Jolie Laide Gallery - Jolie Laide Project Space

Linda Dubin Garfield - Let's Face It! Self Portraits & Life Stories

Sam Green - Utopia in Four Movements

 

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