14th Annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Announces Line-Up, 9/3-18

The 14th annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, which runs from September 3 - 18, 2010, will showcase 18 cutting-edge programs featuring over 35 original dance, theater, and music works by acclaimed U.S. artists from Philadelphia and New York, along with internationally recognized artists from France, China, and Ireland. With 12 World and 2 U.S. premieres and a long-term commitment to the development of new work, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival serves as a platform for both world renowned and newly emerging contemporary artists. Each year, the Festival presents innovative and highly interdisciplinary performing arts events, offering a snapshot of trends at the forefront of the international performing arts scene.

The Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival runs from September 3 - 18, 2010. Tickets for most shows cost between $10 and $30. Some shows are free. Ticket buyers who purchase tickets to multiple shows can save 20% when they buy tickets to 2 or more shows. Students and Festival goers 25 and younger pay $15 for Live Arts Festival tickets and receive $5 off Philly Fringe tickets which are priced above $10.

Select Live Arts Festival tickets will be available for online purchase beginning mid-May at www.livearts-fringe.org, or after August 23 for phone and walk-up sales at the Box Office at (215) 413-1318. The Festival Box Office location will be announced in July. Philly Fringe tickets will go on sale online in July. The Festival Guide, which includes descriptions of each performance, in addition to dates, times, locations, and other Festival information, will be widely available throughout the city beginning the first week of August.

Live Arts Festival performances will take place at venues throughout the city of Philadelphia including the Arts Bank at The University of the Arts, the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, home of Philadelphia Theatre Company, Christ Church, World Café Live, and the Festival's own Live Arts Studio, with additional venues to be announced.

As an internationally recognized presenting organization, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival has garnered critical praise, national grants, and numerous awards while captivating legions of dedicated and enthusiastic audiences. The Festival runs for 16 days in conjunction with the Philly Fringe, in which hundreds of new and established artists stage their own works in both traditional and unusual performance sites throughout the city. Together, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe draw tens of thousands of people who come to be a part of "Festival time" in the city - to see innovative work, meet new people, and interact with over 2,000 artists performing in over 1,200 performances.

Several highlights include DANCE, a collaboration of Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol Lewitt; the U.S. premiere of a theatrical version of The Sun Also Rises by New York-based theater troupe Elevator Repair Service; a special one-night-only engagement with Mark Stewart, better known by his stage name Stew, and his acclaimed band The Negro Problem, performing pieces from Passing Strange and previews of Stew's upcoming newwork, Brooklyn Suite; the world premiere of Cankerblossom, a dark fairytale for kids aged 9 to 90 from Philadelphia's Obie-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company; the U.S. premiere of Cédric Andrieux by French choreographer Jérôme Bel; the Bang on a Can Marathon, an all-day avant-garde music event; and the U.S. premiere of FREEDOM CLUB, a collaboration of New York-based Riot Group and Philadelphia's acclaimed New Paradise Laboratories.

More information and the complete line-up can be found at its website www.livearts-fringe.org.

The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival features performances by renowned contemporary performing artists from the U.S. and around the world who are selected and invited to the Festival by Producing Director, Nick Stuccio. The Philly Fringe is an unfiltered Festival, where new and established artists of all kinds present their own work, free of a selection process. Together, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe establish Philadelphia as a city bursting with wild creativity, bringing audiences sixteen days of the most stimulating, provocative new art being created in Philadelphia, across the U.S., and around the world.

PNC Arts Alive is the 2010 Presenting Sponsor of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe.

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