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Friday, March 26, 2021

Behind the Scenes with the Awakening Team by Raina Searles

With our final Awakening feature, we hope you have enjoyed learning about the work as much as we have enjoyed sharing it with you! Today, meet Charlotte Braithwaite, director of the new oper…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 03:17PM
Friday, March 19, 2021

Diving Deeper on Awakening in the 2022 Fringe Festival by Raina Searles

Today we continue our series (read our first post here!) featuring the creatives and the inspirations behind Awakening, a new operatic work coming in 2022, beginning with the two dramaturgs …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 01:53PM
Friday, March 12, 2021

Get to Know the Awakening Team by Raina Searles

In 2020, we announced that FringeArts received a grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for a new operatic work coming to the Fringe Festival in 2022. The work has already begun, …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 02:35PM
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Philadelphia School of Circus Arts by Raina Searles

During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedented …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 06:27PM
Monday, August 31, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Theatre in the X’s LaNeshe Miller-White by Raina Searles

During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedented …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 02:50PM
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with BalletX by Raina Searles

 During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedente…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 11:39AM
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Smith Memorial Playground by Raina Searles

 During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedente…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 09:36PM

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Philly Improv Theater by Raina Searles

 During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedente…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 09:25PM
Friday, June 12, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Real Deep Radio’s Hugh Wilikofsky and Kevin McKinney by Raina Searles

 During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedente…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 03:44PM
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with the Institute on Disabilities by Raina Searles

 During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedente…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 05:30PM
Monday, May 4, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers by Raina Searles

 During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedente…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 02:40PM
Monday, April 27, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Women’s Medical Fund by Raina Searles

During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedented …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 04:43PM

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Philadelphia Tenants Union by Raina Searles

During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedented …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 10:08AM
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Eric Jaffe by Raina Searles

During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedented …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 10:37AM
Friday, April 24, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Mütter Museum by Raina Searles

During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedented …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 04:59PM

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Global Pandemics and Art with Blast Theory by Raina Searles

During the global coronavirus pandemic, FringeArts is pivoting the focus of our podcast to checking in with our artists, our audiences, and our community partners during these unprecedented …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 03:17PM
Monday, April 20, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: BOY PROJECT with Nell Bang-Jensen & Samiha Hadeed-Moore by Raina Searles

Health and safety are our number one priorities here at FringeArts, and in compliance with CDC recommendations for staying safe during the Covid-19 pandemic, we will be postponing our 202…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 04:36PM
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Beyond the Fringe: Online Art During COVID-19 by Raina Searles

In the wake of COVID-19, Philadelphia’s shelter-in-place decree, and many people (including FringeArts staff) working remotely and moving their social lives almost entirely online, Philade…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 01:59PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Beyond the Fringe: Liz Zimmerman on “Sex, Drugs, and Heartache” by Raina Searles

In Beyond the Fringe, we connect with our independent artists from Fringe Festivals past to share what they’re working on and where you can check out their work…beyond the Fringe Festiva…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 11:31AM
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Megan Stalter by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, hosts Raina Searles and Zach Blackwood chat with twitter-famous, New York based comedian, Megan Stalter. The three of them dive deep into the Chi…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 10:58AM
Monday, January 13, 2020

New Year, New Website by Raina Searles

If this is your first time visiting our website, welcome! If not, you may notice things look a bit…different. So welcome to you, too, to our new website design!  Navigating your way throu…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 04:08PM
Monday, January 6, 2020

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Blue Heaven Preview by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, hosts Tenara Calem and Zach Blackwood give you the inside information on the Blue Heaven 2020 lineup, who’s who, where you’ve seen them, what…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 04:45PM
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Anthony Martinez-Briggs by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, we sat down with Anthony Martinez-Briggs of ILL DOOTS to talk about how ILL DOOTS was formed, their musical influences and inspirations and New Y…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 11:56AM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Dito van Reigersberg by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, we sipped tea and spilled the tea with Dito van Reigersberg AKA THE Martha Graham Cracker. As one of the founders of Pig Iron, Dito shares his ex…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 03:49PM
Monday, September 2, 2019

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Fringe Festival Veterans and Virgins by Raina Searles

In this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, April Rose, FringeArts’ Fringe Festival Coordinator, talks to independent artists Tara Lake, Terry Brennan, Joseph Ahmed and the Executive Dire…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 01:54PM
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Happy Hour on the Fringe: 2019 LOVE Park Artists by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, we share a drink with Marc Wilken from Parks and Recreation and three independent Fringe Festival artists: Dana Suleymanova (Dear qupid), Eric Th…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 02:41PM
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Conversation with Tina Satter by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, we sat down with Tina Satter to talk about her show Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription, which was made with her theater compa…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 03:12PM
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Conversation with Mimi Lien by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, we sat down with award winning designer Mimi Lien to learn about her inspirations for Superterranean, from seeing a rat disappear into the darkn…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 02:21PM
Friday, July 19, 2019

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Conversation with Blanka Zizka by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, we depart from our usual watering hole (the FringeArts office and join the founder and President of FringeArts, Nick Stuccio, to toast The Wilma …

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 10:32AM
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Conversation with Zach Blackwood & Katy Dammers by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, we chat with FringeArts Artistic Producers Zach Blackwood and Katy Dammers about the themes of the 2019 Fringe Festival, some of the exciting eve…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 11:21AM
Monday, June 24, 2019

Happy Hour on the Fringe: Conversation with Mariana Arteaga by Raina Searles

On this episode of Happy Hour on the Fringe, we share a drink with Mexican public practice artist Mariana Arteaga. Mariana is the artistic force behind Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inha…

SOURCE: fringearts.com at 04:09PM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards