The long-awaited Charm City Fringe Festival is upon us! Our beloved creative community has been on hold for what seems like ages. Join us for the high school reunion we never knew we needed!
You've zoomed long enough, now experience the magic of real life connections through stories that celebrate art, resilience and the creative spirit that pushes us forward.
Grab your berets, your bohemian scarves, or whatever "adult" version of your rebellious high school style you've got going on. It's time to reunite with fellow art enthusiasts who've come into their own and showcase the incredible masterpieces that make us stand out in a world full of mundane adulting.
📅 Date: September 29-October 8, 2023
🎟️ Tickets: Available Now!
📍 Venue: BROMO Arts District
Dress Code: Express Yourself, Because Homeroom's Overrated
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2023 Festival Shows
Arson 101, A Choose Your Own Adventure is the story of one relationship told collaboratively between the audience and the actors to create 1008+ possible show combinations. Winner of the 2023 “Artists Pick” and “Spirit of the Fringe” Awards at San Diego International Fringe Festival, it begins when the soon-to-be-lovers meet, and ends... who knows where?!
Based on dating advice received from audience volunteers, Kaylin and Levani use 30+ variety acts created from the vast “special skills” section of their resumes (including but not limited to dance, music, acrobatics, drag, and clowning) to reach up to 7 different story endings. No matter the ending, Arson 101 is a humorous and heartfelt tale about relationships, communication, and the stories we tell ourselves about love.
Created by Michael Harris and developed by the Baltimore Improv Group (BIG), this Fully Improvised show places America's longest running episodic series in YOUR hands. From finding a dead body in public to the verdict given by the audience, it's everything you expect from Law & Order, as you've never seen it before.
Best friends, sex parties, douches, death, and 50% off Andrew Christian underwear. Travel with John Michael in a spanks- and participation-fueled time machine to every one of his orgasms. It's a Queer Fantasia about how grieving makes you horny.
50 Shades of Gay : 8th Anniversary
Join Ike Avelli and his fabulous guests as they celebrate the 8th Anniversary of 50 Shades of Gay with a night of comedy, music, drag, sketches, lots of audience participation and giveaways.
Featuring special performances by: Tym Moss and Stormi Skye!
Matt's comical misadventures and soul-searching moments, amid a Covid divorce and dreadful apartments, will resonate with anyone who’s faced the highs and lows of love and life. Laugh with him, at him, and at yourself. Experience the hilarity, heartache, and ultimately hope of Welcome to Splitsville. Population: 1 nil.
Deep in a river, a creature grows. Up on the bank, mutant children, with 12 eyes, cry. Men pass furtive glances while the water levels rise. Everything hinges on a mother who's sickly tired from deceit. In a town poisoned to the bone, even good men get scared. But whoever said there was anything good growing in Flurpa?
Meet Bertolt Brecht and degenerate painter Otto Dix. Kinda. Fact or fantasy? Either way, they’re yours to devour.
Baal & Dix is an immersive piece that explores German auteur Bertolt Brecht and his contemporary, Otto Dix. The audience is invited to choose their own path in this quasi-factual, cabaret-style romp into toxic art.
A surprise party turns into a "Who Done It?" This is what happens when Sylvia gets the bottle. She was supposed to be celebrating her 60th Birthday. Now she's gotta go to jail. But we're going to find the culprit before the cops get here. Who gave Sylvia the bottle?
"The Past is a foreign country, they do things differently there."
Greytown, Nicaragua. 1899. An old Rebel pens his Civil War memoirs. Using a local girl as his stenographer, the recollections come easily, until the writing session where he tries to remember the third day at Gettysburg.
First came Confederates (2016). “If you are a Civil War buff and a theater lover, this is the show for you.” DC Metro Arts. And then, the controversial Black Confederates (2018). This is the final play from the "The Trilogy of the Confederacy," written by Virginia playwright James F. Bruns.
The Galaxy Brain Experience” combines hip-hop music, chamber music, animation, and dance. This 45-minute original story follows Astris on her psychedelic journey into space. Whether traveling on a rocket, through a black hole, or a maze, she learns to love herself while living alongside her mental illness.
An intrepid group of thespians awake one morning to startling news: their friend, the supermodel, is calling in a favor. She has an important obligation and can’t make her runway that evening– can they cover for her? Of course, they can! The thespians nail the assignment and set off on a journey from fashion to stardom to friendship. It's a part-tay!
Our family had a huge Dodge in the 70s. We bought it when the Ford finally died just as we were about to cross into Mexico, to stay for an unspecified amount of time – and under very unspecified circumstances. I remember some things about that period. But I was a child, so I've forgotten a lot. My dad remembers some things. My mom remembers some other things. My photographs are fuzzy. And no one remembers the things I do. What actually happened?
Triple Play is three 10 minute-ish plays. “Cruising in the Clouds” Directed by Richard Peck, a reluctant Vietnam vet returns home to the States and meet a man of the cloth, who share conflicting perspectives on war experiences. “Shadow Dancer” directed by Billie Taylor, A Vietnam vet suffers from years of writers block. Once upon a time his career was soaring. He’s searching for something. That spark, a feeling he use to know. Hearts of Silver, directed by Barry Feinstein, Two longtime old friends meet at a bar and discuss what life was like in the marine corp, what it should have been and the bond that held them together.