The Seattle Fringe Festival, a two-week series of locally sourced plays, starts this Thursday, and you can find the complete schedule for the festival on our Fringe Festival calendar.
If you’re not familiar with the Fringe Festival, here’s Rich Smith on why you should attend:
Seattle Fringe Festival showcases local talent that doesn’t often get play on larger stages. This a good thing for several reasons: (1) You get to see fun shows you may have missed throughout the year, such as Sara Porkalob’s one-person performance The Dragon Lady, a hilarious and surprising romp through the life of a Filipina gangster. (2) There’s a bunch of weird stuff you’re more likely to embrace in a festival-type setting than in an evening at the thea-tah-type setting, such as the Libertinis’ Uncle Seagull, a “mash-up of burlesque, clown, dance, and drama” that they describe as a “love letter and ransom note to your favorite turn-of-the-century Russian poet Anton Chekhov!” (3) You can check out new work, such as newcomer Tré Calhoun’s Dirt + Dew, a one-act play about a guy who employs a mud suit in a summer-camp seduction. This year, the festival expands its sphere of madness, encompassing playhouses in both Capitol Hill and Queen Anne.
Throughout the festival, you can rely on the Fringe Festival calendar for show information, showtimes and venues, and tickets.
