New York International Fringe Festival News

Mary-Beth Manning will present her acclaimed one-woman show, MOTHER, directed by Roma Maffia as part of the 15th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC, August 12th-28th.

Mary-Beth Manning is pleased to present her acclaimed one-woman show, MOTHER, directed by Roma Maffia as part of the 15th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC, August 12th-28th. MOTHER will be performing at IATI Theatre

Lifeline Theatre artistic director Dorothy Milne and festival curator, former Live Bait Theater artistic director Sharon Evans, are pleased to announce the 15th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival, produced by Lifeline Theatre, July 21-August 7.

Jim Tierney presents Mush, directed by Dina Epshteyn, as part of the 15th NY International Fringe Festival. The festival will take place Aug 12th through 28th

Mind The Gap Theatre and Early Bird Theatricals will present Jessica Fleitman's award winning comedy The Average-Sized Mermaid in August 2011 at The New York International Fringe Festival.

The New Colony, 2011 Broadway in Chicago Emerging Theater Award-recipient, is proud to announce their current production of the world premiere of 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche, written by company members Andrew Hobgood and Evan Linder and directed by Sarah Gitenstein, has been extended through Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Dank Haus, 2nd floor, 4740 N. Western Ave.

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) presents two summer laboratory performances of new work by some of NYC's most exciting musical theater writers

The Dreamscape Theatre (In Fields Where They Lay, The Burning Cities Project) is pleased to announce the world premiere production of WHALE SONG or: Learning to Live With Mobyphobia by Claire Kiechel, directed by Brad Raimondo (In Fields...) as part of the 15th annual New York International Fringe Festival ? FringeNYC, August 12th-28th.

Wes Farley, a screenwriter known for having HIV, is enjoying national attention with his latest film. There's only one problem: he's faked his illness for the past 10 years to boost his career, and is beginning to comprehend the drawbacks of his plan.

A violent brute holds an innocent young woman captive and attacks anyone who dares approach.

THE BOOBY PRIZE is an official jury selection of THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESIVAL 2011 and has also been selected for 'THE BEST OF THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FEST' with four additional shows added in Los Angeles, to be performed later this month.

FESTIVAL THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Michael Walker's DANCING IN THE GARDEN, directed by Bruce Ward as part of the 15th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC, August 12th-28th. The production will take place at The Living Theatre, 21 Clinton St.

For Maria Baratta, growing up a first-generation American in an Italian household required a delicate balancing act, as she explains in her one-woman show, Vignettes of an I-talian American Girl.

MiddleMaddle Ensemble is proud to present Chasing Heaven as part of the 15th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC).

The Common Tongue is proud to present the World Premiere of WHAT THE SPARROW SAID, by Danny Mitarotondo, as part of the 15th annual New York International Fringe Festival. WHAT THE SPARROW SAID will be performed at Teatro La Tea (107 Suffolk Street).

Younger Child Productions presents the world premiere production of One, Two, Whatever you do..., a new play by Vanessa Shealy, as part of the fifteenth annual New York International Fringe Festival. The play will have six performances at Fringe venue #12.

Theater for the New City's second Dream Up Festival, an annual festival of new works from across the country and abroad, will offer premieres of three choreographed productions: 'M. - Solo for Three Minds (Dialogues with Marcel Proust),' devised and performed by Miloš Sofrenovic, text re-translated and spoken by Sheila Sofrenovic (August 19 to 26); 'own, Owned,' choreographed by Jesse Phillips-Fein (August 24 to 28) and 'I Don't Have a Title Yet!' by Regina Nejman (August 14 to 21).

Bill Connington, the actor/writer, visited The Streetwork Drop-In Center for Homeless Youth at 209 West 125th Street in New York.

Announcing Lær's Last Prayer devised and directed by Stephen F. Murray.

One man's sanity and several people's futures hang in the balance in Banshee, a drama about family relationships, ghostly warnings, second chances and letting go.