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 Ben freaks out when Jack brings home a big bad wolf for a one-night stand, setting forth a dangerous chain of events...

 Our thought-provoking, energetic, fiery performers this year are Quess Moore, Justin Lamb, Akeem Martin, Gian Smith, Tarriona "Tank" Ball, and Lindsey Durbin.

 

A contemporary cabaret through space and in and out of our minds comprised of theater, dance, music, film and puppetry...

 

Voted Best Solo Show: 2011 Minnesota and 2012 London Fringe Festivals! " A Must See! Pat O'Brien delivers a "wow" inducing performance...

In the barren immigration office of a strange country, two naive applicants wait (and wait...) for their papers to be approved...

With contortion, mime, magic, and a BB Gun, Trash Rabbit delves into the heart of America.

 You are cordially invited to join the people of Topos for a feast and a journey through a magical labyrinth... 

 

The Vanities of the Poor is a musical allegory spectacular set in the Mississippi Delta in 1960... 

 Jules and Bernadette Bouchard struggle to hold on to the tenuous strands that remain of their once passionate relationship...

 Artists will often agree that there is no greater source of strife than in the relationship between artistry and business.  

 "The most innovative, gripping, and intriguing version of Hamlet I’ve seen to date” - Huffington Post...

 The year is 1917. A series of brutal axe murders holds New Orleans in a state of terror. Who is the killer and what are his motives?

 From Venezuelan male prostitutes to brainy teenage girls with big necks, everyone needs love...

 

Jack loves Gwendolyn. Algernon loves Cecily. Cecily and Gwendolyn love Ernest. Ernest doesn’t exist...

e.lang is gearing up for her most sordid adventure yet-- a run for the White House.

 Orchard-Less is the second in a triptych of site-specific pieces created during the occupation of abandoned spaces in cities throughout America...

 Human sacrifice to please your woman ? Love is a bloody thing...

The mysterious tale of a lowly debt collector, who, under the management of a mechanical, tyrannical overseer, undergoes a radical transformation...

Swinging to hot jazz songs, a one man, depression-era musical comedy of vaudeville madness, wisecracks, dicing with death...

Well, how did we get here?  The American Girl Project takes you on a crazy adventure through history...

Conquest. Chaos. Storms, Sex & Spectacle.

 

Desiree Burch presents Tar Baby, the tale of America’s black & white love affair—from shotgun wedding to “post-racial” relationship...

 This daring new work is created and performed by choreographer/performance artist, Angelle Hebert...

Cave Dogs’ shadow performance, Sure-minded Uncertainties, presents a startling original way of telling a story...

 Ever seen comedy on the Fringe? The New Movement presents Sketched!

After the success of last year's "Billy The Liar" Toybox and Cripps return to the NOLA Fringe with a brand NEW puppet play!

 

Holmes and Watson race through the cobbled streets of London to catch a killer! Will they succeed?

 "She Remembers" follows Agatha, an Angel with amnesia who wakes up in a familiar theater. The stage is bare except for a pile of papers...

 When an embittered English socialite is (accidentally?) buried alive, he decides he is ultimately better off six feet under...

 Following last year's hit 'An Englishman in New Orleans', Paul Oswell brings his new show, 'Rhyme Soda' to the Fringe...

 What happens when religion, money, and sex are forced into the same living room? Hilarity.

 Raven chronicles the saga of a demigoddess destined to become a Pop Culture Icon...

 Watch (but mainly listen) as Tanya O’Debra lends her voice to ten different characters...

 In Q & Unfinished Sentences, Mari Meade Dance Collective’s alternately humorous and thought-provoking dance piece,

Inspired by true events, NOTHING is about Ben, a young man struggling through the social grind of high school...

 My Alexandria is a two-man show examining the lives of African American soldiers in WWI...

 Todd is in the closet and his wife, Lois, is hearing things. So of course they should adopt a baby... 

Based on a non-fiction children’s book, Moving Heavy Things is a playful, creative and engaging piece...

 

Sadie can’t believe her luck when she’s hired to sing on the radio to galvanize the ‘soldier girls at home’...

Medea is a surrealist piece with fantastical elements.

Join Tall Hilda in an epic search for love as it trysts between film and live performance,

 

Enter Room 34 of the Olde Town Inn and unleash your inner voyeur...

 A rich taste of a heart and soul that helped shape the Mississippi Delta's Rhythm and Blues...

 Kiss Kiss Julie is a gender-bending treasure hunt for pleasure, sensuality, and sexual utopia... 

 

Jack Spicer's Billy The Kid is a song cycle of sorts...

I’m a guy.  Sometimes I listen to Madonna. Sometimes I cry. So what?

 Struggle creates pressure and pressure creates diamonds. The diamonds in the rough, Isis & Nephthys will take you to a place where relationships are amplified...

 Irse at N.O. Fringe is the culmination of migrating theatre journey “Going Northbound”...

From the company that brought you the 2010 Fringe hit Our Man, comes an implosive exploration of technological anxieties in a digital age...

 Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias is a multimedia event that explores gender and power relationships in various forms of competitive media... 

 Ten West's INEFFABLE is a clown exploration of the mysteries of life, death and hay fever... 

 When Alfred returns from the Arctic with a mysterious urn, strange happenings begin on the grounds of his family’s manor house...

 Why might a body ascribed as female and/or gay be seen (in pieces)?

 Death meets his match in Mrs. Fischer, a tenacious granny not ready to breathe her last...

The ancient Greek truism, Gnothi Seauton, advises us to “know thyself” before judging others.

 In this experimental drama, a woman lost in travel finds herself confronted by ghosts of her youth through dialogue with an abandoned Japanese doll...

 

 A comedic maelstrom of chorus girls, live hot jazz, and PUPPETS, featuring Meschiya Lake, Caroline Fourmy, Bella Blue...

 At a time when the gods roamed the Earth, the Queen of Heaven and Earth sets her sights on the wisdom of the "Great Below"...

 Surrounded by violence and corruption with no way to fight back, Naif creates ESTER...

 Need more funny in your Fringe? Ready to be surprised? Door#3 is the show where Fringe and improv meet...

 “Callings” is a poetic homage to the sirens of the sea and the secret intentions of voices that captivate and haunt...

Connected by a common thread, Call To Rise, a collection of six distinctive & individual performance works...

 The YES Girls, Cayenne Cuntessa and Lemmie Lickett, boast sexually inappropriate social commentary in the form of sketch comedy..., song parodies and the occasional video.

 

A solo-performance piece based on interviews, BODY Play explores the complexities of our relationships with our bodies...

 

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The haunting tale of two young women bouncing between their dream worlds and waking life...

 These gender-bent masters of the clownishly bizarre & ridiculously outré sparked the NYC dance world before twirling into Radical Faerie land & beyond...

 

Come into the garden where A Lovely Picnic awaits!

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