In 1991, when the Baltic country called Estonia was liberated from the disintegrating Soviet Union, there was much talk of things being “democratized” – especially things economic, moving on from the discarded Soviet non-business model. But if you’re Australian-born Dan Renwick, who’s lived in Estonia since 2010 and founded the country’s only Fringe Festival, the […]
Lovers of Fringe Festivals in the Washington, DC, area got some very bad news at the start of 2025 – as though the overall news of domestic and global politics weren’t bad enough already. The well-established Capital Fringe announced it was shutting down. Citing a host of depressing reasons, including Washington’s shortage of performance venues, […]
The 2025 Camden Fringe, in a very specific part of London, is coming up July 28-August 24. We chat here with Zena Barrie, who founded the festival with Michelle Flower back in 2006, about what has changed – and, as the French are always saying, what has remained the same. Let’s start at the, well, […]
The Barcelona Fringe Festival coming this fall is cause for a ton of memories from visits over half a century. It was sometime after midnight that the train I’d taken up from Rome stuttered to a stop in the dark as I tried to sleep sitting up, slowly releasing all its passengers onto a concrete […]
My former UPI news colleague Vicky Bowles reports from southwest Florida, where Fringe Fort Myers is happening this weekend. If you’re anywhere in the vicinity, you should consider taking in one or more of the festival’s shows. Fringe Fort Myers returned for a third year this weekend (May 29-June 1) at the nonprofit venue Alliance […]
The Providence, R.I., Fringe Festival, catchily known as Fringe PVD or even FRINGEPVD, takes place this year July 13-26. It’s all a production of that city’s respected Wilbury Theatre Group. Here at Fringe Forever!, we put our best Yankee foot forward and went to learn all about it. What is the history of the Providence […]
Barcelona is looking for a few good men. And women. Especially if they are very, very funny. Thomas Reading, who heads up the Fringe Festival in the Catalan city of Sagrada Familia and other Gaudi architectural fantasies, has put out an APB for the next few weeks. He’s inviting performers who wish to play Barcelona […]
Jason Woods, an actor/playwright/composer (and probably a few other things) will be offering two of his high-energy one-man shows this summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We caught up with Jason to chat about what it means to him, after so many different performances and venues, to finally play a fringe. The Edinburgh Fringe has […]
My journey to Prague began as a postcard, truth be told: one of those faded, crumpled cards in a flea market long ago – I don’t remember where or when. The city in that vintage black-and-white photograph seemed filled with castles, with shuttered windows and cobblestones and statues and balconies, and drifts of white snow, […]
The word arancini in Italian means “little oranges.” But in the Sicily that named them, going back to the Arab occupation in the 12th century, they are actually no such thing. Arancini will be devoured in abundance during the Catania Off Fringe Festival, scheduled October 16-26, 2025. The idea of establishing a Fringe in this […]