IndyFringe 2008.
Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival.

FringeFriday July 25

IndyFringe 2008 is coming Aug. 22.The next FringeFriday will be held at 5:30 pm on Friday, July 25, 2008, at the Harrison Center for the Arts, 1505 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis, featuring an outdoor BBQ for IndyFringe volunteers followed by special performance vignettes of IndyFringe 2008 shows. This is a free event open to the public. RSVP to indyfringe@gmail.com. Details forthcoming.

FringeFriday is held on the last Friday of each month at various venues in the Massachusetts Avenue Arts and Cultural District. FringeFriday features special performances by current and past IndyFringe performers, skits, live music occasionally, and other surprises. FringeFriday typically includes a cash bar and hors d'ouevres, and admission is free.

June FringeFriday Features Performance Vignettes

The June 27 FringeFriday featured performance vignettes from the forthcoming Aug. 22-31 IndyFringe, including In Rehearsal by Alison Vodnoy, The Caverns by Brand X Theatre, and Meet the ROCK! Norman Rockwell and his Artist Friends by Sam Harper, plus selections from the upcoming Indiana premiere of bare: The Musical by All Alike Productions. Here are some photos from the June 27 event:

Alison Vodnoy at the June 27 Fringe Friday.
In Rehearsal, Alison Vodnoy

bare the Musical at the June 27 FringeFriday.
bare: the Musical, All Alike Productions

Sam Harper at the June 27 FringeFriday.
Meet the Rock!, Sam Harper

The Caverns at the June 27 FringeFriday.
The Caverns, Brand X Theatre

Justin Brady hosted the June 27 FringeFriday.
IndyFringe's own Justin Brady was the host for the June 27 FringeFriday.

Photo credits: Bob Burchfield, with an invaluable assist from Jeff and Becki Roach (Roach Photography).

4th Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival: Aug. 22-31, 2008

The Great Gondos at IndyFringe 2008.It's Year Four of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival, a big, bold and bodacious celebration of alternative theatre and performance arts!

53 performers. 270 shows. Six stages. And 10 days of splashy spectacle, provocative pageantry and outrageous outbursts of off-beat theatrical fun.

WHO: 53 performance groups from Indiana, U.S.A. and the world.
WHAT: More than 270 live theatre performances in 10 days, plus fine arts, film festival, street performers, and lots more.
WHEN: August 22-31, 2008
WHERE: Six venues in the Massachusetts Avenue Cultural District.
WHY: Why not?
HOW: Buy a $3 festival badge onsite good for all 10 days, then pay $10 cash per person per show at the door, 30 minutes before any show. 100% OF BOX OFFICE RECEIPTS IS RETURNED TO THE PERFORMERS.

The pages of this Web site are taking shape quickly. Each show has its own page on this Web site with show description, genre, warnings, and schedule (when each page is complete). For your convenience, complete pages are identified with a green dot on the list of shows (yellow means partial content posted; red No content posted yet. means no content posted yet).

Also, the complete schedule of shows is available in various formats: by date and time, by name of show, or by venue. As the festival approaches, there will also be a plain text version that you can print to your printer, and there will be an Excel spreadsheet version that you can download to your computer and then sort in any way you like, so that you can plan your own itinerary for IndyFringe 2008!

ABOVE: The Great Gondos bring their show to IndyFringe 2008—all the way from Australia.

Announcements

INDYFRINGE ACQUIRES NEW HQ BUILDING
See the News Page for details.

2008 PERFORMANCE GROUPS ANNOUNCED
The performance groups chosen for IndyFringe 2008 are announced in this Press Release (MS Word .doc, 35K). Or click here for an Adobe PDF version (19K). See list of shows...

VISUAL FRINGE PRESS RELEASE
MS Word (24K) | Adobe PDF (16K)

VISUAL THREAD PRESS RELEASE
MS Word (23K) | Adobe PDF (12K)

IndyFringe Masthead Art (top of this page): Emma Overman.

With Thanks to our Sponsors

The Christel DeHaan Family Foundation is one of the sponsors of IndyFringe. The mission of Christel House International is to help children around the world break the cycle of poverty and become self-sufficient, contributing members of their societies. We thank the foundation for its generous support of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival!

Additional funding provided by The Indianapolis Foundation, NUVO, the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and Young & Laramore. Sponsor page...

FringeFuture: 5th annual IndyFringe: Aug. 21-30, 2009