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Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe ready to buy its own building
by Jeffrey Stanley on Aug.28, 2011, under The Sixth Boro, Theatre
by Howard Shapiro
“The actors are setting up shop, as are the dancers, comics, acrobats, clowns, musicians, and uncategorizable others — some from around America, others from across the sea, many from zip codes all over the area. Every Philadelphia performance space is taken — as well as spaces not normally used for performance…It’s all in preparation for one of the nation’s powerhouse arts festivals…The Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe — 16 days and nights of sometimes experimental and risky, sometimes outré and bizarre, and frequently striking work — opens Friday…For all its constant growth in audience-building, fund-raising, and mentoring performers, Live Arts/Philly Fringe – now a $2.6 million annual operation known to just about everybody as, simply, the Fringe…” CONT’D AT PHILLY.COM>>
Tickets are onsale now for Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead.