The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) Announces Sold Out Shows
The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) Announces Sold Out Shows
Preview by David Roberts
Theatre Reviews Limited
The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 19th Annual Festival from August 14 - 30, 2015. This year the festival will present programming by 184 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies representing 8 countries and 21 US states. Shows will be presented in 16 venues in downtown Manhattan. With attendance topping 75,000 people, FringeNYC is New York City’s fifth largest event (just behind New York International Auto Show, Tribeca Film Festival, New York City Marathon, and New York Comic Con).
After beginning advance sales a week earlier than in previous years, FringeNYC will open on Friday with more sold out performances than ever before. At press time, 47 performances are sold out and two shows, “Maybe Tomorrow” and Feelings …,” have sold out their entire run. Shows with individual performances that have sold out include: “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,” “Father Kennedy,” “Popesical,” “Elaine Stritch: Still Here,” “An Inconvenient Poop,” “Schooled,” “Far From Canterbury,” “Parthenogenesis,” “Ripple of Hope,” “The Bad German,’ “Lucky Chick,” “Your Love Our Musical,” “Above Us,” “Small Membership,” “The Buffalo,” “butyou'reaman or: The Seven Men I Came Out to in India,” “The American Play,” “The Boy From Bantay,” “To Each Their Own,” “Type What Now,” “Baba,” “Bed Beth and Beyond,” “Shake The Earth,” and “To Dance - The Musical.” Nearly two dozen more performances have only a handful of tickets available. Shows leading the pack in overall ticket sales include: “Divine/Intervention,” “Far From Canterbury,” Popesical,” “The Report,” “Hell is For Real,’ “Virgin Sacrifice,” and “Beware The Chupacabra!”
If a show you want to see is sold out, never fear, you may have another shot; this year, FringeNYC inaugurates FringeFAVES. On August 30th, the final performance slot in each of the 16 theaters hosting the festival will be given to the best-selling show in that venue. The actual shows will not be announced until the final week of the festival, but the slots are currently on sale (at www.fringenyc.org/special-events/fringefaves). Patrons can buy tickets now and be surprised or wait and find out if their favorite show grabs one of the coveted slots.
FringeNYC is a production of The Present Company, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy. In 1997, New York City became the seventh US city to host a fringe festival, joining Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Houston, Orlando and San Francisco. FringeNYC has presented over 3000 performing groups representing every continent, prompting Switzerland's national daily, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, to declare FringeNYC as “the premiere meeting ground for alternative artists.”
FringeNYC shows run 2pm - midnight weekdays and noon - midnight on weekends. Tickets are $18 each ($13 for kids under 12 for FringeJR shows only), available at www.FringeNYC.org. Discount passes for multiple shows (including the Fiver and the all-you-can-see Lunatic Pass) are also available. Tickets can also be purchased in person at FringeCentral (56 E 1st Street between 1st & 2nd Aves) beginning August 7. For more information visit www.FringeNYC.org.
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