2016 Fringe Encore Series Announced!
Once again presenting the best of both FringeNYC and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Fringe Encore Series returns for the 11th year with the following encore productions in September and October. Get your tickets now!
BELOW ARE THIS YEAR'S ENCORE SELECTIONS
The Box Show
Soho Mainstage - Tickets- $20 * Winner- Overall Excellence Award for Solo Performance "Dominique Salerno’s The Box Show the most purely delicious production I’ve seen at this year’s FringeNYC, is a relentlessly inventive quick-change series of solo sketches."- New York Times Thurs 10/20 @ 7, Sat 10/22 @ 7 ChipandGus SoHo Mainstage - Tickets- $18 * Winner- Overall Excellence Award for Ensemble “ChipandGus is bright, funny and cathartic: an emotionally resonant buddy comedy for thinking audiences. ****”- Time Out New York Mon 9/19 @ 8, Fri 9/23 @ 9, Sun 9/25 @ 5, Thurs 9/29 @ 7, Sat 10/1 @ 7 The Cleaning Guy Huron Club - Tickets- $20 “Just as Paul Adams can't help getting emotionally involved in his clients' lives, I too felt gripped by the stories in his one-man show, The Cleaning Guy.”- Theatre Is Easy Fri 9/16 @ 7, Thurs 9/22 @ 9, Fri 9/23 @ 7, Sun 9/25 @ 7, Thurs 9/29 @ 9 Dementia Americana
SoHo Mainstage - Tickets- $18 * Winner- Overall Excellence Award for Playwriting "Zany and thoroughly engaging…director Paul Mancini keeps the energy high and the performances focused straight through the unsettling Brechtian final moments...History may have forgotten this minor cultural moment, but in Aquiler and D'Amato's hands, the story is especially timely" - David Gordon, Theatremania Sun 9/18 @ 3, Tue 9/20 @ 7, Wed 9/21 @ 7, Thur 9/22 @ 7, Tue 9/27 @ 7 The Extraordinary Fall of the Four Legged Woman SoHo Mainstage - Tickets- $22 "a brave and touching exploration of humanity" - Charlotte Arnoux - Theatre is Easy Wed 10/20 @ 9, Fri 10/21 @ 9, Sat 10/22 @ 5, Fri 10/28 @ 7, Sat 10/29 @ 9 The Fall SoHo Mainstage - Tickets- $18 “Lilia Ruben, the playwright, has crafted a strong text that has obviously been intensively researched and cleverly structured...She has a great ability to shape characters that are recognizable and believable...”- Jacquelyn Claire- NY Theatre Guide Wed 10/5 @ 7, Fri 10/7 @ 7, Mon 10/10 @ 8, Sun 10/16 @ 5, Tues 10/18 @ 8 Flight Barrow Street Theatre - Tickets- $22 “Whimsical physical theatre. [Flight] makes ingenious use of three actors’ bodies!” - New York Times Sat 9/24 @ 3, Sun 9/25 @ 3, Tue 9/27 @ 7, Thur 9/29 @ 7:30, Fri 9/30 @ 7:30 Homo Sapien Interruptus Huron Club - Tickets- $18 “Immensly engaging autobiographical solo show..high on evocative ideas…you’ll leave a Dengler fan. ****”- Time Out New York Sat 10/15 @ 7, Fri 10/22 @ 7, Sat 10/23 @ 7, Fri10/28 @ 7, Sat 10/29 @ 7 Mother Emanuel SoHo Mainstage - Tickets- $22 * Winner- Overall Excellence Award for Musical "Glorious....A gorgeous, rafter-raising gospel musical" - The New York Times Fri 9/9 @ 9, Sat 9/10 @ 7, Sun 9/11 @ 3, Mon 9/12 @ 8, Sat 9/17 @ 5 Pucker Up and Blow SoHo Mainstage - Tickets- $18 * Winner- Overall Excellence Award for Play FringeNYC 2016 "Reitz spends much of his dark showbiz comedy slicing into the Bradshaw mystique.. ****”- Adam Feldman- Time Out New York Sun 9/11 @ 7, Fri 9/16 @ 9, Sat 9/17 @ 7, Sun 10/16 @ 5, Mon 10/17 @ 8= The Radicalization of Rolfe SoHo Mainstage - Tickets- $18 * Winner- Overall Excellence Award for Play FringeNYC 2016 In Abigail Zealey Bess’s tone-perfect production, this is a lark of a play with sadness at its core.” The New York Times Sun 10/23 @ 7, Mon 10/24 @ 8, Wed 10/26 @ 7, Thur 10/27 @ 9, Sat 10/29 @ 3 Rent Control Huron Club - Tickets- $18 * Winner- Overall Excellence Award for Solo Performance FringeNYC 2016 "This solo show from Evan Zes may just be the surprise thriller of the festival.”- Zachary Stewart- Theatremania Wed 9/28 @ 7, Fri 9/30 @ 7, Mon 10/3 @ 8, Sat 10/8 @ 7, Mon 10/10 @ 8 The Secret Life of Your Third Grade Teacher Huron Club - Tickets- $20 "Micaela Blei tells a story that is not only hilarious and engaging, but also deeply moving” Sarah Moore- Theatre Is Easy Sat 10/1 @ 7, Sun 10/2 @ 7, Fri 10/7 @ 7, Sun 10/9 @ 7, Fri 10/14 @ 7 Zamboni SoHo Mainstage - Tickets- $18 * Winner- Overall Excellence Award for Direction “Sometimes all it takes is a strong story and basic storytelling to make the perfect Fringe play. Those were the main ingredients of Sean-Patrick O’Brien's nearly flawless Zamboni.”- Michael Block, Theater in the Now Mon 10/3 @ 8, Sat 10/8 @ 7, Sun 10/9 @ 7, Wed 10/12 @ 7, Sat 8/15 @ 7
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