Get Involved in Fringe
Perform at the Free-For-All Tent! Sign up for a time or show up for Busker's Happy Hour. Click here for more info.
Volunteer We need your help running venues, collecting tickets, selling beer, and lots of other ways. Work a shift, get a ticket to a show. Click here for more info.
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New Orleans Fringe is November 17-21, 2010!
Thank you to the performers who applied for the Fringe! We had a tremendous response this yea, with a record 160 applications from all over the US, as well as Chile, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, UK and Ireland.
Bring Your Own Venue Applications now due September 6!
The deadline has been extended to September 6. Find out more here. Show us your most innovative, original, challenging, creative, risky, provocative work at the New Orleans Fringe November 17-21, 2010.
Help Antonio Garza Take "Men in Uniform" to Arizona
In August, Antonio Garza will travel through the blazing Arizona heat with his one-man show "Men in Uniform" to tell Arizonans what it is like to grow up hassled by authorities who did not think he looked American enough. His idea? Turn up the heat on Arizona’s new law, SB1070, which makes it legal for police to demand “documents” of anybody they think might be an illegal immigrant.
(Read the Gambit Article Men in Uniform - Gambit, June 24, 2010 - Antonio Garza, New Orleans Fringe, FATI and "How can we nurture the arts in a more powerful way?", by Jennifer Kilbourne)
Antonio first performed "Men in Uniform" at the 2008 New Orleans Fringe Festival. The Fringe Alternative Theater Incubator (FATI) is now helping Antonio take it on the road as he head from Phoenix into the Arizona hinterlands to perform wherever he can – at cafes, bars or churches. Support Antonio's ride with an online donation (all donations will go directly to his project)
2009 Fringe Report
In 2009, we thought a lot about how the Fringe can create more opportunities like the Festival and how we can get more people involved in Fringe. So we created a vision that embraces the Fringe Festival and takes it further: the Fringe Alternative Theater Incubator efforts (FATI for short), a year-round effort to catalyze innovative, challenging, excellent original theater, with the Festival as the flagship event.
In this report, we talk about the 2009 Festival and our initial FATI efforts. We reflect on what went well, how we can improve, and where we are headed in the future. Click here to read all about it.
The Buzz
- Men in Uniform - Gambit, June 24, 2010 - Antonio Garza, New Orleans Fringe, FATI and "How can we nurture the arts in a more powerful way?", by Jennifer Kilbourne
- In the Wake of Katrina - American Theatre Magazine, May 2010- The Fringe has been "a galvanizing force in the theatre scene over the past few years", by Chris Wallenberg
- Feeding the Animals - NolaDefender. com, May 7, 2010, by Kat Stromquist
- Acting Up - Greater New Orleans Living, November 2009, by Beth Herstein
- New Orleans Fringe Festival Review - Gambit Weekly, November 23, 2009 by Will Coviello
- Theater, puppets, opera and cabaret are among the sights to behold at the second New Orleans Fringe Festival - Times-Picayune, November 13, 2009, by Alison Fensterstock
- Wonder Lands: The N.O. Fringe Festival Unravels Traditional Theatre - AntiGravity, November 2009 (p 20-21), by Sara Pic
- The New Orleans Fringe Festival defies description - Gambit Weekly, November 9, 2009,
by Will Coviello
- Chris Rose Interviews the Fringe - Times-Picayune, October 22, 2009
- New Orleans: Dancers Stay Tough in the Big Easy - Dancer Magazine, August 9, 2009, "The place where all alternative forms of dance come together is the New Orleans FringeTheater Festival, a forum for both emerging and established performing artists to present their work..." by Lindsay Dreyer
- Arts Council Interview with the Fringe - On June 4, 2009, the Arts Council's Cole Bernstein and Gene Meneray sat down with us for a conversation about the Fringe Festival and the arts in New Orleans (15 minutes).
- Fringe Fest - David Weinberg, WWOZ StreetTalk Radio Story (audio clip and transcript), November 2008
- On the Fringe - Dalt Wonk, The Gambit, November 24, 2008
- Raw Talent: Let Your Freak Fly at this Weekend's Inaugural New Orleans Fringe Festival - Noah Banoparte Pais, The Gambit, November 11, 2008
- The Unconvention: Fringe Fest Cues Alternative Theatre's Finest - Sara Pic, Anti-Gravity Magazine, November 2008
- Plethora of peculiar stage stuff at New Orleans Fringe Festival - David Cuthbert, Theater writer, The Times-Picayune, November 7, 2008
- Fringe Benefits - Dale Irvin, Country Roads Magazine, September 2008
Tell me more about Fringe...
The Festival is a forum for emerging
and established performing artists to do their
creative thing -- whatever it is --
at an annual multi-day, multi-venue event
that is affordable and accessible to the
community.
The Festival provides the venue and the
audience; the performers do the rest.
Anything can be performed: we let the
audiences decide what is excellent,
astonishing or brilliantly insane. Get all the details in our 2008 Festival Report.
Festival News

Fringe Parade 2009
Photo by Janet Wilson

Rigorous Disco of Doom
Photo by Libby Nevinger



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