Fringe Arts Headquarters – Photo courtesy FringeArts
‘Enjoying All Types Of Performing Arts In Philly’
The 2015 Fringe Festival, now in its 19th year, is one of Philadelphia’s signature fall arts events celebrating innovation and creativity in contemporary performance from artists around the world. From September 3 to 19, the Festival will feature hundreds of dance, theater, visual arts, music and spoken-word performances in traditional venues as well as on street corners and in cars, galleries, cabarets and restaurants.
History of Fringe Festival
The Fringe started life when eight theatre companies turned up uninvited to the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival in 1947. In 1997, five Philadelphia artists banded together to create an outlet for other contemporary and experimental performers to present their works.
The first Festival took over Philadelphia’s Old City for five days, and featured 60 performing groups that presented their work in theaters, nightclubs, galleries, alleys, abandoned buildings and at least one parked car.
Since then, the Fringe Festival which is organized by Fringe Arts, has grown into more than two weeks of high-quality, highly innovative artistic presentations.
Our 2015 Guide To The Fringe Festival
(will be updated throughout the day)
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September 2-3 at 7 pm $20, 4-5 at 8 pm $20, 6 at 4 pm $29, 9-12 at 7 pm $29 | Underground Railroad Game
Held at Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St.
A delirious, funny, and taboo-smashing work about race relations in America travels through time from a modern-day middle school lecture to pre-Civil War times. Along the way this fluid duet moves through a host of comedic and tragic scenarios.
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September 9 – 11 | Still Standing You | 7:00 pm | $29
Held at Painted Bride Performing Arts Center, 230 Vine St.
Meet Peter and Gui. Peter. Gui. Two dancers play out scenes of male friendship, machismo, and the naked male body in this mischievous dance, a kaleidoscopic view of friendship—rife with tensions and aggressions, clumsy desires of harmony and virtue, whispered tunes of togetherness and solitude
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September 9 – 12 | Swamp On | 8:00 pm | $
Held at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street Philadelphia PA 19123
The Dr. Dog Pop Detachment and The Pig Iron Psychedelic Signals Auxiliary compose a performance-experiment that will tune in to rare frequencies and decode transmissions from the Psychedelic Swamp.
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September 17 | Feastival | 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Held at Fringe Arts at 140 N. Columbus Boulevard.
The annual Festival brings the best in contemporary, innovative and ground-breaking art to Philadelphia and fills the city with daring artistic performances, international legends, and local pioneers. | More About Feastival | Get Tickets
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September 18 & 19 | Soul Project | 8:00 pm | $29
Held at Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St.
Experience soul in all of its manifestations: spiritual and musical, abstract and personal.
Fringe Festival
Location
City-Wide | Held in different Philadelphia neighborhoods
Dates
September 3 – 19, 2015
Cost
Costs vary at different events
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