Fringe BYOV Application Deadline Extended Thru 9/6

BYOV Application Deadline Extended to September 6! Bring Your Own Venue (BYOV) applicants now have a little more time to line up the details with their venues!

The BYOV option lets you organize and run your own venue in the Fringe. Click here for more information and to download the application:
http://www.nofringe.org/bring_your_own_venue.html

Mark Your Calendars: Fringe is November 17-21!
The 2010 New Orleans Fringe Festival, November 17-21, will be an extraordinary five days of theater, performance art and spectacle. Forty groups from New Orleans and around the country will be presenting over 100 shows in venues across the city. The shows include the exotic, the dramatic and the insane: drama, dance, one-person shows, cabaret, comedy, puppetry, clowning, improvisational, aerialist and many other creative works.

Venues include traditional theaters as well as unusual spaces: Shadowbox Theatre, Skull Club, NOLA Candle Factory, Backyard Ballroom, Trinity Church, Den of Muses and others. All performances are $8 each and run between 30 and 60 minutes. Tickets will be available online starting October 1 at www.nofringe.org, at the door before each show, or at the Fringe Festival Tent during the festival.

The Fringe Festival Free-For-All Tent is the heart of the Festival; it is a big-top where audience members and performers can mingle over refreshments and enjoy free entertainment; it will be located at the corner of Press and Dauphine Streets in the Marigny.

Other free Fringe activities during the Festival include a showcase of the hottest spoken word artists in New Orleans at Bam-Bam-Boom-Baby-Boom on Saturday, November 20th at 7 pm (Location TBA), Paint Party by NOLA Rising, Free Previews on November 17th and 18, Festival Party on November 19th, the Goodchildren Social Aid and Pleasure Club Fringe Parade down St. Claude at 2 pm on Saturday November 20th.

The Fringe is a 501(c)3 non-profit that was founded by local arts organizers to nurture fearless theater in New Orleans and to benefit artists, audiences, neighborhoods and local businesses. For more information, visit www.nofringe.org

New Orleans Awards - Live Stats

Best Musical - Top 3

1. ANNIE (Ascension Community Theatre)

19% of votes

2. THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (Sullivan theatre)

17.1% of votes

3. THE WIZARD OF OZ (Slidell Little Theatre)

10.6% of votes

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