SF Fringe Festival Sept. 6-17

The San Francisco Fringe Festival will run September 6 – 17 featuring over 35 new and original shows from the creative theatrical minds of the Bay Area.  Produced by EXIT Theatre and sponsored by "The Onion" and The Hilton Hotel, SF Fringe welcomes this new year of "unique, unexpected, uncensored theatre."

Over the two weeks, shows will be performed in several venues around San Francisco: CounterPULSE, The EXIT Café, EXIT on Taylor, EXIT Stage Left, EXIT Theatre, The Mexican Bus Departure Point, The Off-Market Theatre - Stage 205, Original Joe's Cabaret, and The Phoenix Theatre.

TICKETS:
Tickets for all Fringe shows go on sale 30 minutes before the show at the venue. Advanced tickets are also available but must be presented at the theater by show time.  There is no late seating and no refunds. Some popular shows, especially on the last weekend, will have a line to buy tickets even before they go on sale 30 minutes before show time. At least 50% of each Fringe show is reserved for sale at the venue.

For information about advance tickets to Fringe Shows visit the play's description webpage (www.sffringe.org).  For Fringe shows at EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left, EXIT on Taylor and Original Joe's the advance tickets are only available online and are only available up to 24 hours before the performance time.

Most Fringe shows have advance tickets available for their performances although some in the Non-Traditional Fringe Venues have not set up advance tickets or reservations.

FREQUENT FRINGER PASSES:
The Fringe Festival provides Frequent Fringer Passes for people who want to see more shows at a discounted ticket price. The Five-Show Pass allows you to see five shows for only $35 and the Ten-Show Pass allows you to see ten shows for only $65. Frequent Fringer Passes are not transferable and can only be redeemed by the cardholder at the venue. Note: the Frequent Fringer Passes are a discounted way to see Fringe Shows. They cannot be used to buy Advance Tickets and do not guarantee admission. During the Fringe Festival the Frequent Fringer Passes are available by check or cash at the Fringe Hospitality Desk at the EXIT Cafe, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco. 

LOCATION OF FRINGE VENUES:
The EXIT Theatreplex (also known as "Fringe Central") is located at 156 Eddy Street, between Mason and Taylor in Downtown San Francisco. This is the location of EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left and the EXIT Cafe (which is the Fringe Hospitality Center with information, Frequent Fringer Passes and food and beverages). During the festival The Mexican Bus also sells tickets, departs and returns to this location.

Just around the corner from the EXIT Theatreplex are venues Original Joe's Cabaret (located in back of the restaurant at 144 Taylor Street between Eddy & Turk) and EXIT on Taylor (located at 277 Taylor between Eddy & Ellis).

Four blocks North of the EXIT Theatreplex is the Phoenix Theatre venue (located at 414 Mason Street, on the 4th floor, between Geary & Post Street). Four blocks South of the EXIT Theatreplex is the Off-Market Theatre - Stage 205 venue (located at 965 Mission Streeton the 2nd floor between 5th & 6th Streets). Also South about 7 blocks is CounterPULSE (located at 1310 Mission between 9th & 10th Streets).

FRINGE 2006 PLAYS:
@six; 21/One; Another Ugly Duckling Tale; BabyLove; Before the End; A Boy Called Noise; Cruel and Unusual; Curriculum Vitae; Eating Skeletons; Exiles; Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen; Flameco con Fusion; Fuse; Get It? Got It. Good; Get Laughs or Die Tryin'; Irma at the Movies & Frozen; Just For Laughs; Kama Sutra; Kingdom of Not; Lunches of Our Lives; Neon Man and Me; Yeastboy and PigKnuckle: Together Again; Pomp & Circumstance; Readiness is All; Revolving Madness Living the Dream and Damning the Man; sally: MIA/Sheepish; Secret Ruths of Island House; Sisyphus on Vacation; Stone Trilogy, Three Tales; Thanatics - A Rock Opera; This Lily Was (Fontana); Thrilling Adventures of Elvis in Space – 2; Tilting at Transformations; Visiting Bertha; Waiting for Bordeaux; Where the Sun Don't Shine; Woof, Daddy; Yellow Fever Express; Yorick & Co.

MORE DETAILED INFORMATION:
Detailed information on tickets, venues, and each play (with a show description and cast) is available at www.sffringe.org.

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