FringeNYC Kicks Off With THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING ART, 8/10

PinPuppets Productions will kick off the 16th annual New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) with THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING ART -- the first of 46 shows to premiere on the opening day of FringeNYC. Performances of THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING ART run Fri 10 @ 4,  Sun 12 @ 4:15,  Thu 16 @ 9:30, Wed 22 @ 9, &  Thu 23 @ 5:15 at The Connelly Theater (220 East 4th Street between Aves A & B in the East Village). Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. For more info on this and the other 187 shows in FringeNYC, visit www.FringeNYC.org.

Watch as profanity becomes profundity in THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING ART. When Jack and Art pose as artists for the sole purpose of getting laid it leads them to one of the big questions of our generation: what is so important about doing Art? This 21st century take on Oscar Wilde's “The Importance of Being Ernest” completely flips the mistaken identity genre on its head. Be prepared to laugh out loud at this fast-paced satire of modern life.

THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING ART features Tom Morf, Nick O’Neil, Sara Hendricks, Susannah Dalton. Paul De Vries, and Emily Ellis. It is written by Susannah Dalton and directed by Jose Ignacio Vivero, a husband and wife duo.

Established in 2009, PinPuppets Productions is a theater and puppetry company based out of Astoria, Queens NYC. PinPuppets believes that theater is not dead; it is the definition of alive. In these days when you can't even get a real person on the phone to place a complaint with the electric company, what a luxury to have living breathing humans in front of you, fervently believing in a lie, in the hopes that you will believe, too. More info at www.pinpuppets.com.