Tag: FringeArts
Philly Fringe co-founder Nick Stuccio to step down after 27 years
Nick Stuccio built Philly Fringe into a major cultural event with a national reputation. He will step down in April 2024.
7 months ago
Listen 1:16Philly Fringe performer imagines eating her twin sister: ‘It gave me a lot to digest’
John Jarboe invents “Rose,” a genderqueer performance about her twin sister who vanished in utero.
7 months ago
Listen 1:38She’s back: Funk freak Red 40 makes her hometown return in Fringe Fest
Funky, liberating, and a little gross, Martha Eies’ alter ego disappeared from Philly almost five years ago. This weekend, she’s back.
8 months ago
Listen 2:47Philly Fringe hubs are expanding exponentially. Is this the future of theater?
The Cannonball Festival now hosts half of the Fringe Festival. Its model of cooperative performance could be the future of theater.
8 months ago
Listen 3:10Philly’s Fringe Festival touts hundreds of daring, defying, delightful performances
Me and Jesus and Prince and Captain Jean-Luc Picard as performance art can only mean one thing: The Philly Fringe Festival is back for the 2022 edition.
2 years ago
Listen 5:38Fringe Festival to go on in the fall — with some changes
The 24th annual festival plans a mostly digital presentation of independent theater and performance art, to comply to COVID-19 distancing.
4 years ago
Fringe Fest co-founder shares his must-see acts for this year
More than 1,000 acts will perform all across Philadelphia during this year’s Fringe Fest. The festival’s co-founder shares his choices for must-see acts.
5 years ago
Listen 5:22The Philly Fringe 2019: It’s time again to explore the unknown
Philadelphia Fringe Festival opens Sept. 5 and runs for 18 days with 158 different shows: theater, dance, music, circus, film and visual art, plus digital.
5 years ago
Northeast Philly sets the stage ‘on the fringe of the Fringe’
Formerly an arts desert, Philadelphia’s Mayfair neighborhood is expanding its cultural footprint for the Fringe Festival.
5 years ago
Listen 3:50Reggae legend Bob Marley, Asian history in Philly, and Cowtown Rodeo in this week’s ‘Things To Do’
Philadelphia, Delaware and South Jersey host an array of events, from a tribute to Jamaican independence, Train in concert, and bike racing in the ’burbs.
5 years ago
Listen 4:11An off-season Fringe, with the spotlight on local successes
The new High Pressure Fire Service Festival, geared to locally based performers, runs through most of June, with a new show opening each month.
5 years ago
Comedy weekend launches FringeArts season of theatrical mini-festivals
The annual Fringe Festival presenter kicks off Blue Heaven, a two-day comedy festival with 10 performances of stand-up, performance art, and a live podcast recording.
5 years ago
‘¡Bienvenidos Blancos!’ — Welcome, White People! — to Cuba, from Team Sunshine
How the history of Cuba and the revolution continues to shape the identities of Cubans and their American kin.
6 years ago