D.C.'s Capital Fringe Festival Runs July 19-29

The Second Annual Capital Fringe Festival will take place from July 19 - 29, 2007. The Fringe Festival's mission is to connect exploratory artists with adventurous audiences by creating an open access annual performing arts festival in the District of Columbia.

According to the organization's website, the Fringe Festival is "often the first opportunity for emerging artists based in Washington and beyond to present their work. The Fringe Festival provides these artists with formal and informal support through workshops on administration, marketing, fundraising and show production. We aim to train and educate the artists in our fringe to create a stronger self-producing community. The Fringe Festival challenges arts audiences to discover new, risk-taking art, and attracts new non-traditional arts audiences that no other organization does. The uniqueness, variety, and accessibility (low ticket price) of our performances and venues attracts people who might not have been engaged in art before. In doing this The Fringe Festival encourages the economic growth and social well being of the city and is a major contributor to the cultural life of Washington."

Capital Fringe Festival productions, featuring than 500 individual performances involving over 200 companies in 30 venues, include such titles as: 69 Ways to Fall in Love, Abstract Nude, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, Ariel Sharon Hovers Between Life and Death and Dreams of Theodor Herzl, Bad Dad!, Ben Jonson's Volpone, Birds, The Blue Lagoon: A Musical, Charles Mee's bobrauschenbergamerica, The Burden of Sunflowers, BurleyQ, Butter: a love story, Carrie Potter and the Half Blood Prom, Cautionary Tales for Adults and the Many Adventures of Trixie Tickles, Chocolate Jesus, Cordelia's Fool, The Drunkard, The Fate of a Cockroach, The Feminazi, Gallathea, Glory Days, The Heart is Hollow, The Hefner Monologues, I Am S.A.A.M. (South Asian American Male), Love & War: with the Bard's Broads & Dames, Lysistration, The Misanthrope, My Friend Hitler, The Neon Man and Me, Night of the Living Theatre...By Dead Playwrights, Queen of the Bohemian Dream, Reefer Madness: The Musical, A Swedish Tiger, Telemonster, The Tell-Tale Heart and the Mind of Poe, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, The Trojan Women, Via Dolorosa, and A White House Tale.

All tickets go on sale July 9th.  Visit www.capfringe.org for more information.

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