The 2008 New Orleans Fringe Festival: A Success Thanks to Your Support

What folks said:

"The inaugural New Orleans Fringe Festival was full to overflowing with exciting new work — too much for any one person to see and much too much to discuss in the limited space here. Theater suddenly seemed to be everywhere — in scattered oases for aesthetic Crescent City nomads. And the nomads came in droves."

-- Dalt Wonk, Gambit Weekly

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Congratulations to the performers, volunteers, sponsors, and--of course-- the audience who supported the inaugural New Orleans Fringe Festival. Forty groups from around the country and New Orleans presented over 100 shows in venues across the city, primarily in the Marigny, Bywater and French Quarter. The shows included the exotic, the dramatic and the insane: drama, dance, one-person shows, cabaret, comedy, puppetry, clowning, circus/sideshow, improvisational, aerialist and many other creative works. Click here to see show descriptions and schedule.

Click here to download the complete Festival program.

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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.

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