WHY YOU BEASTING? Sells Out at FringeNYC Prior to Opening

By: Aug. 08, 2013
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The 17th annual The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, runs August 9 - 25, 2013. The festival offers programming from 185 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies in 20 venues in downtown Manhattan. With attendance topping 75,000 people, FringeNYC is New York City's fifth largest annual public event (just behind New York International Auto Show, Tribeca Film Festival, New York City Marathon, and New York Comic Con). Shows represent 13 countries and 17 U.S. states and an array of genres including drama, comedy, classical theater, dance, performance art, puppetry, clowning, and children's theater. A complete schedule of performances is available at www.FringeNYC.org.

On Wednesday, Why You Beasting? became the first show of the 2013 festival to sell out its entire run. Several productions have already sold out multiple individual performances including: Rubble, Big Dummy, Cowboy's Don't Sing, Off The Desk, Bellini and the Sultan, and Snakes I Have Known. Other best-sellers include The Rufus Equation, Gertrude Stein Saints!, Luke Nicholas, The TomKat Project, Someone To Belong To, Peninsula, Horse Play, What Every Girl Should Know, Perfectly Normel People and Playing God.

FringeNYC has also been the launching pad for numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway transfers, long-running downtown hits, and regional Theater Productions including Urinetown, Matt & Ben, Never Swim Alone, Debbie Does Dallas, Dog Sees God, Brandon Teena, Dixie's Tupperware Party, 21 Dog Years, Bash'd, The Irish Curse, Jurassic Parq, The Fartiste, Silence! The Musical and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche; movies including WTC View and Armless; and even a TV show ('da Kink in My Hair). FringeNYC alumni include Bradley Cooper, Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me, One Direction's This Is Us, CNN's Inside Man), Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project), Brooke Elliott (Drop Dead Diva), Melissa Rauch (Big Bang Theory), Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Pippin), W. Kamau Bell (Totally Biased), Dan O'Brien (NBC's Whitney), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) and Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story), among countless other success stories.

FringeNYC shows run 2pm - midnight weekdays and noon - midnight on weekends. All performances start promptly and latecomer sare not admitted. Tickets are $15 in advance ($18 at the door) at www.FringeNYC.org or 866-468-7619 or at FringeCentral (27 2nd Avenue at 2nd Street). Discount passes for multiple shows -- including a $70 Fiver and an unlimited $500 Lunatic Pass -- are also available. For more information visit www.FringeNYC.org



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