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Fringe Festival November 17-21, 2010

Mark your calendar for five days of weird, wild, fresh original theater in New Orleans. Applications will be posted on April 15, 2010. Sign up for our newsletter, and we'll send you a reminder!

Thank you to everyone!

Thank you to the performers, volunteers, venue owners, theater technicians and of course the audience who made this a wonderful year for the New Orleans Fringe.  Over 5000 people attended the 2009 Festival with over 120 theater performances and events. We were inspired by the Fringe performers from New Orleans and all over the country who brought us their beautiful, wild, provocative performances and filled our neighborhoods with their creative energy. We are especially grateful to our community partners, media supporters, donors and sponsors who made the Fringe possible with their generous support. We look forward to a great 2010 and seeing everybody again. Read here for a special thank you to from the GoodChildren Fringe Parade.

The Buzz

• 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

• Download the 2009 Fringe Festival Fact Sheet
• March 30th, 2009 - New Orleans Fringe honored with a special award by the Big Easy Committee and The Gambit!
• Check out the press coverage of the New Orleans Fringe Festival here.
• Now available! Download our submission poster and email it to your friends.
• Interested in sponsoring Fringe? Check out our sponsorship packages.

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