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FringeNYC?The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with more than 200 companies from all over the world performing for 16 days in more than 20 venues. In addition to 1200 incredible performances, FringeNYC includes (click to learn more):
FringeU
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FringeAL FRESCO
FringeART
FringeCLUB
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FringeNYC Propaganda
FringeNYC? Although FringeNYC is a production of The Present Theatre Company, Inc., it takes:
75,000 audience members
5,000 artists
2,000 registered volunteers
1,200 performances
200 shows
20 venues
16 days
15 dollar advance tickets and
2 full-time employees
to make FringeNYC happen.
We do this? Good question! In 1997, our budget was $74,000. Today, it's more than a million dollars. We must seek and secure support from donors in order to "bridge the gap" between rising costs and our desire to keep ticket prices low. Your donation helps us grow to meet the challenges of the future!
Support of FringeNYC has a tremendous impact on indie theatre. We appreciate it!
1999 Quotes
Just a few weeks before the Broadway theater season begins this fall, we're reminded that some of the most interesting and thought-provoking work on stage happens nowhere near midtown.
New York Today
Smart folks simply grab a cab to the Lower East Side for this summertime madhouse of high, low and other stages of culture.
Star-Ledger
It's a frenzied freak show of flesh, fornication, feminism and fratricide! Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fantabulous New York International Fringe Festival!
The Resident
...154 performance groups from around the world all gleefully thumbing their noses at traditional theater.
New York Post
Entertainment that, while sometimes ragged at the edges, challenges children more than, say, Barney.
Time Out New York
A festival of experimental theater and dance that has been drawing crowds and attention for the past two years.
The New York Times
The New York International Fringe Festival offers a plethora of downtown family theater events.
Daily News
The New York International Fringe festival is taking Manhattan by storm...
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The wonderfully freaky New York International Fringe Festival continues its parade of shows downtown.
New York Post
While great, alternative theater is put on every day in Manhattan, sometimes it takes a high-profile festival, like this one is becoming, to draw larger crowds to see it.
The Resident
Plan a weekend on the fringe where the Robert De Niros and Calista Flockharts of tomorrow are performing for $12 a pop.
InTheater
New York's wildest theater festival offers traditional and cutting-edge shows, plus a street scene you won't believe.
American Way (American Airlines' in-flight)
Programs are geared to children who know there is more to entertainment than "Once upon a time".
The New York Times
OK - you know you're going to the Fringe Festival - you just can't decide what to see.
The New York Theatre Experience
(FringeNYC) has become something of a Sundance Festival of the theater world.
Time Out New York
Those looking for the future of theater will not want to miss the funky Fringe Festival, the annual Lower East Side marathon featuring the best of the performing arts.
HX Magazine
A permanent fixture on the New York theater scene.
Show Business
Have you been Fringed?
Playbill
Consider it the Theater Olympics.
SHOUT
Experimentation, innovation, and pure off-the-wall-ness appear to be the hallmarks.
Backstage
Underground theater is alive and well in NYC as the third annual New York International Fringe Festival takes Lower Manhattan by storm.
Time Out New York
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