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	Thoughts on The Fringe
		Fringe Theater tends to be produced in smaller venues.
		As important as indices of public acknowledgment such as the Seattle Fringe Festival are, is the vitality of a complex network of artists and audiences committed to risk in the theater.
		The history of theater is filled with similar public resistance to the unfamiliar, which only reinforces the idea that the best drama is likely a prophecy, a projection of how we will see the world, not how we do see the world.
	www.maewestfest.org /ARTICLe.htm (1019 words)

	2000 Philadelphia FRINGE Festival - Press Room
		The Philadelphia Fringe Festival is proud to announce it's artistic line-up for this year's event, September 1-16th, 2000.
		Always a huge part of the Fringe, we are presenting several long runs this year to allow for audience enthusiasm.
		This nearly limitless practice, though not entirely new, is constantly being honed, reinvented and brought to new levels of sophistication by visual and performing artists on the fringe.
	www.pafringe.com /F2000/press_room.htm (547 words)

	Minnesota Fringe \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thirst is co-presented by the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the largest non-juried theater festival in the United States.
		All have appeared at the biggest theaters in town, from Theatre de la Jeune Lune to Penumbra, the Jungle to the Guthrie.
		Not only did the actors have to adjust their volume and work especially hard to focus amidst countless distractions (versus an auditorium that quiets when the action begins), the stage-less space was limited; there was no sound system, curtain or special effects and props were minimal (table, chairs, drinks and a toy gun).
	www.fringefestival.org /thirst.cfm (3112 words)

	village voice > theater > by Mark Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Performance theater is one of a long line of titles that try to define what's happening on small stages across the U.S. At my venue, Performance Space 122, we have followed this line of work through many iterations.
		Theater Group STAN is a group of young Belgian actors—a collective of performers that have been working together for nearly 10 years.
		Performance theater is a sniper in the guerrilla warfare of our culture—theater done in small cells, through international connections, via information passed in dark bars.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0221/russell.php (1598 words)

	OFFOFFOFF theater festival NEW YORK FRINGE FESTIVAL play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Fringe Festival is the year's best chance to see bold, creative, not-ready-for-Broadway theater ranging from brilliant to bizarre — and sometimes both.
		As the uptown crowd is just starting to notice, some of the best theater of the year will be going on for the next two weeks at the downtown Fringe Festival.
		With the 1999 Fringe hit "Urinetown" headed to Broadway next month, more eyes than ever are on the festival to see what unexpected corner the next hit will come from.
	www.offoffoff.com /theater/2001/fringe.php3 (706 words)

	London's Fringe Scene (washingtonpost.com)
		Fringe theaters are often located in pubs or other spaces not built as theaters.
		Fringe theater prices can be as low as $12 -- in contrast to the West End, where a ticket to a musical can cost $90, plus a booking fee.
		There's still good theater to be seen in the West End, particularly "Anything Goes" at the Drury Lane and "Democracy" at Wyndham's, both transfers from the National, and Edward Albee's "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" at the Apollo, a transfer from the Almeida.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A63460-2004May28.html (903 words)

	Eastview High School theater students present ‘Corleone,’ a Shakespearean version of ‘The Godfather’
		Fringe theater accurately reflects its name by attempting to challenge the theater’s status quo.
		Eastview Theater Director Scott Durocher said their journey to the fringe started when they were invited to apply last year by Gustavus Adolphus College dance professor, Michele Rusinko.
		Traditional plays and musicals are the backbone of high school theater, which make fringe theater all the more appealing to directors like Durocher.
	www.hometownsource.com /2006/February/20shakespeare.html (830 words)

	DenverPost.com - F is for fun on the fringe
		Whether it's theater, talk radio, newspapers or any medium of artistic or political expression, there has to be diversity to it.
		In the continuation of her award-winning series, Wilcox transforms seamlessly from male to female, from kid to crustacean, from flora to fauna in telling the tale of a young woman on the edge of her independence.
		WHAT: Theater of crueltyThis last and most haunting play written by Sarah Kane is a glimpse into the fragmented mind of a woman on the brink of suicidal psychosis.
	www.denverpost.com /theater/ci_4163801 (1650 words)

	London : Nightlife : The Theater Scene \| Frommers.com
		TDI specializes in providing London fringe theater tickets, but also has tickets to major productions, including those at the Royal National Theatre and the Barbican.
		Call the theater directly to find out if gallery, discount, or standby tickets are offered for a particular show.
		Fringe Theatre--Some of the best theater in London is performed on the "fringe" -- at the dozens of theaters devoted to alternative plays, revivals, contemporary dramas, and musicals.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/london/0055023089.html (900 words)

	(McKinley)
		Fringe organizers were accused of selling out, R.A.T. organizers of acting "fringier than thou," and both are striding the boards confused.
		The heart of the dispute between the two groups was a decision made last fall by Fringe organizers to "jury" their festival, to judge and week out performers they felt weren't right for the event.
		The Fringe directors, taking a much different tack, are actively promoting their event, going so far as to appear on Channel 5's "Good Day New York" on Wednesday morning, frolicking with giant robotic puppets.
	www.ratconference.com /mckinley.htm (1047 words)

	Fringe Binge
		The Philly Fringe removes some of the chanciness by doing bookings and adjudications, but with so much to see (plus the presence of the self-produced acts, who haven't gone through any weeding-out process) the Philly Fringe is pretty much a joyous crapshoot—a great big grab bag.
		However, there are other Fringe festivals in the land who think that Philly's Fringe doesn't even deserve to use the name—that by using a panel of jurors to select acts, Philly's festival is committing Fringe heresy.
		Another important new Fringe venue is Arden's Haas mainstage (referred to as the Fox Philadelphia stage during the Fringe), further connecting one of the city's most successful mainstream theaters with the scruffier festival that surrounds it.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/090398/cover.shtml (2725 words)

	Scorched-Fringe Policy \| Theater \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		First, a huge chunk of every Fringe Fest bill is devoted to new plays--but in retrospect, the Playwrights' Festival that New City Theater used to produce was a better forum for them.
		The Playwrights' Fest fell by the wayside because the Fringe Fest offers novice playwrights (who are most often their own producers) the illusion of greater opportunity, whereas the Playwrights' Festival did all it could to limit production aspirations.
		The theaters collaborate on the marketing (joint posters, programs, etc., paid for out of a mutual pool of funds), but everything else--show selection, show production, all financial arrangements with artists--is left to each theater to arrange to its own satisfaction.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=16750 (726 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Op-Eds - Theater on Tap
		Rather than featuring budding writers or actors, American theaters like to lure audiences with playwrights and titles that have been validated by critical acclaim, a practice that contradicts the wild and independent spirit of fringe.
		Theater publicity is relegated to the same old methods: hanging posters at venues around the theater, advertising in the performance pages of newspapers, and sending flyers to its mailing list as well as those of other arts organizations.
		To those who don't usually go to the theater and don't conform to the stereotypical ticket-buying demographic, this says "don't come" as well as "you won't be interested." If a company wants audiences to expect work that takes a risk, it has to take chances and reach out to new audiences.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2004/49440_20040510.asp (864 words)

	New York Fringe Festival - Theater - New York Times
		With fringe festivals popping up around the country, and with a downtown scene in New York that has, in some ways, grown up, the Fringe, which opens today, has become for many productions only the most important among several stops.
		Some prominent downtown theater companies are almost expected to have a well-developed show ready for the Fringe, several festival veterans said.
		A festival as big as the Fringe, she said, has room for both the first-time composer who’s singing into her laptop and the musical company that already has a cast recording.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/08/11/theater/11frin.html?ex=1312948800&en=04580e6efd2dd22f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (896 words)

	LA Weekly - Theater at the Edge of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This festival of fringe theater, staged in venues of 99 seats or less, is the first step of what the organizers hope to develop into an annual event that will include entries from around the world.
		Finally, the festival's selection committee chose 10 local theaters to represent the host city, each of which received modest grants of $10,000, while the international groups were clearly the festival's centerpieces.
		The remainder of the theater community participated in the Fringe Festival, using the main festival's hype to rally the troupes and attempt to entice a thinly spread audience.
	www.laweekly.com /stage/theater/theater-at-the-edge-of-the-world/6207 (1050 words)

	Seattle's Fringe Festival 2002 in Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.com
		Theater and plenty of it, that's how I was to pass the last two fine weekends of September.
		Capitol Hill hides a number of independent theater houses in former warehouses, basements, back alleys, and some venues that were actually built to be theater houses.
		Best of Fringe plays are given encore performances after the Festival is over and they're a good choice for people who'd like to catch some fringe theater but can't decide for themselves what to see.
	jetsettersmagazine.com /archive/jetezine/fests/fringe/fringe.html (823 words)

	mnartists.org \| Leah Cooper and The Fringe
		She is now leaving her post at the Fringe and heading to South America with her new husband, theater artist Alan Berks, who co-founded Thirst Theater.
		The mission of the Minnesota Fringe is to connect adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
		The Fringe is an eleven-day performing and visual arts festival that features drama, comedy, dance, musical theater, Kids Fringe, Teen Fringe, solo performance, sketch comedy, puppets and more.
	www.mnartists.org /article.do?rid=111039 (377 words)

	Theatergoing in London. - By June Thomas - Slate Magazine
		Going to watch good theater in the capital needn't cost much more than a cinema ticket (remember: a night at the movies will cost you £10—that's nearly $19—per person in central London), and heading to less expensive off-West End and fringe venues is a great way to explore the city.
		And the best fringe venues stage the kind of powerful, startling theater that reminds us why we bother to go out in the evenings, sit together in a darkened room, and wait for something to happen.
		If there is one fringe venue that has made its mark on the "new writing" scene in recent years, it is Theatre 503.
	www.slate.com /id/2141298/sidebar/2141937 (591 words)

	Fringe Festival offers cutting-edge lineup
		Two bellwethers of the creative city's performance calendar are an alternative music festival and a theater fringe festival.
		At the end of 12 days, muses Fringe producing director Jason Bruffy, "I want to have shown Cincinnati a glimpse of live performance in its rawest form, given audiences a glimpse of the potential future of performance arts.
		Fringe passes will go on sale March 19 at a festival pre-party from 6 to 9 p.m.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/02/08/tem_fringe08lede.html (490 words)

	Fringe Shorts
		The majority of this year’s 150 shows boasted more performances than shows in previous years, a move made by the Fringe staff to enable fest-goers to see more.
		This kind of personal comic reverie has become familiar territory in gay performance art, but Chris Gullo did it with great wit and aplomb — both as author and actor he was entirely winning, as was Tim Cusick, the supple (adult) sidekick who played Gullo as a boy.
		Reigning hip-hop queen Ursula Rucker, her DJ/poet Rob Yancey III, white boy rapping trio Shrine and soul chanteuse Vicki Miles — during Rucker’s Future Shock at the Painted Bride — made sure the audience knew that "hip-hop is everything," a universal province of fl and white America.
	citypaper.net /articles/093099/ae.theater.fringe.shtml (1939 words)

	CurtainUp London Page -- fringe theaters
		London has a large number of fringe theatres, often intimate studio spaces which put on experimental or new writing or are a first venue for fledgling directors and performers.
		Some theater companies which always put on reliable productions and whose whose productions may be found on the fringe are:
		Another source of information is this website maintained by a cooperative group of fringe theaters
	www.curtainup.com /londonfringe.html (418 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| Fringe of Marin Festival
		From Edinburgh to New York, fringe festivals are a growing phenomenon, springing up anywhere there is a sizable theater community.
		Essentially, they are edgy, offbeat celebrations of new, independent and marginalized voices; fringe festivals are the theatrical equivalent to the modern film festival.
		According to Long, a resident of Petaluma and the published author of numerous short stories, the Dominican fringe festival gives encouragement to local theater artists and playwrights, by offering them the one thing they need most: a theater in which to stage their works.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/04.14.04/fringe-0416.html (608 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| Fringe Theater
		This is the theatrical fringe of the North Bay.
		What makes the work he does fringe, Guigni believes, is that while the troupe does its share of shows for kids and families, they frequently use puppetry in programs designed specifically for adults.
		If "fringe" is a relative term, then so is "mainstream." In the North Bay, even the nonfringe theaters--those with a marked enthusiasm for musicals or the classics or even classic musicals--occasionally take their fair share of risks for the sake of their art.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.07.05/fringe-0536.html (3313 words)

	7th annual new york international fringe festival at theater2k.com
		As lifelong, blood oath-sworn, seriously committed (or should be) theater fringe-dwellers, our Fringest of the Fringe Awards celebrate the random, the obscure, the undeniably brilliant, the inexcusably wretched, the truly, down-home weird.
		The 10% of the Fringe I saw was remarkably diverse politically, socially, and, yes, ethnically.
		Here's how I saw it in Binge 3: "...where the toilet stalls are duct-taped off, the sink is a converted piss trough and the room next door has "Slop Sink" stenciled on it." Plus it smelled a lot like the 50th Street "C" train subway station.
	www.theater2k.com /Fringe6.html (795 words)

	The Seattle Times: Theater & arts: A new wave of fringe theater groups hits Seattle
		And that is the kind of grassroots artistic ingenuity needed to keep Seattle's theater scene vital — for audiences and artists and, yes, for critics.
		The quality of the so-called "fringe" — the ever-changing circle of independent Seattle troupes with large creative aspirations and modest means — is a cyclical thing.
		The hip culture hub led by Matthew Kwatinetz is the rare for-profit fringe house: CHAC funds its theatrical wing from the profits of a popular onsite restaurant (Crave) and a basement cocktail lounge.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/theaterarts/2002557462_fringe16.html (932 words)

	Hanging out on the 'Fringe' of summer - Minnesota Daily
		Second in command ranks Australia's circus-tinged Adelaide Fringe, and close behind is Canada's Edmonton International Fringe, which runs for more than three summer months and makes more tracks across the land of Canucks than a fleet of Mounties with ants in their pants.
		Every spring, the Fringe Festival rifles through hundreds of applications and picks about 150 shows to put on an A-list of the Twin Cities' wide world of stages, from the gilded tapestry of the Tony-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune to the rough-hewn, pipe-dripping cafes-that-could, such as the Acadia.
		All told, the Fringe is live and in-your-face at more than two dozen venues for more than two weeks, with each production benefiting from the hefty PR firepower provided by the festival's administrative genius (they done know how to work a press packet, baby girl) and its comprehensive Web site, www.fringefestival.org.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2006/08/02/68651 (663 words)

	Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Theater - New York Times
		The city population more than doubles as tourists attend a variety of festivals, which, besides the Fringe, include the International Festival (the original arts festival that began in 1947, where the work is still by invitation only), the Book Festival, the Film Festival and the Military Tattoo (a daily array of marching, drumming and fireworks).
		The Edinburgh Fringe, which began on Aug. 7, overlaps with the New York International Fringe Festival, held during the last two weeks in August, but it is about five times larger.
		With the Fringe operating as a kind of department store and the shows as merchandise, the idea, of course, is to be purchased.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/08/25/theater/newsandfeatures/25frin.html?ei=5088&en=f08e5ebbc3aaa09f&ex=1282622400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1148396496-GRkTgzzWY1wTE73QvrZ29Q (1144 words)

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