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Art on the Fringe

It’s back! The award-winning Capital Fringe Festival  plays Downtown for 18 full days from July 10 through July 27—the longest run yet of this wacky, independent performing arts festival. Fringe fanatics and revelers of all ages will be glad to know there are more original performances than ever this year, from one-act plays, comedies, dramas and improvisation to musicals, dance, hip-hop and mime. But many of the presentations are simply unclassifiable because the Festival is open to the unknown, to risk and to chance!

Piqued your interest? Fort Fringe (607 New York Avenue), the Fringe Box Office, opened July 7. Ticket prices typically run $15 to $35, although savings are available this year with $50, $75, $110 and $300 festival passes, which you can buy in advance before shows sell out. For $300, you get an All Access Pass and can see as many shows as you want. The other three ticket options are flexible passes and can be used discriminately. With a Six-Pack Pass ($75), for example, you can see six shows for the price of five and have the flexibility to see six individual performances, bring five friends to one performance or anything in between. Merrymakers forgoing the pass option also must pay $5 for the Fringe button, required to enter all performances. For more information, and to purchase online and browse the list of shows, visit www.capitalfringe.org, or call 866.811.4111.

Capital Fringe, now in its third year, won the Mayor’s Arts Award for Innovation in the Arts in 2007 and received a Momentum Award from the Downtown BID.