2009 Events!

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BB BlackDog
Derby, England and Lubeck, Germany
BB BlackDog Live
Naropa University - Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $10/6
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

BB BLACKDOG have a unique sound, with just two bass and drums (no guitars). They are made up of members from successfull bands, INCUBATOR, THE HAPPY CITIZENS and SUPERKCRAUT an...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 8 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Izumi Ashizawa Performance
Tokyo, Japan, and Tampa, Florida
Gilgamesh
CU Museum of Natural History
Tickets: $15/10
(Ticket Deals: Aug 18 - 2-for-1 special)

"Gilgamesh is a powerful epic story combined with the visionary choreography of Izumi Ashizawa. Add to that multi-talented dancer/actors who show an incredible amount of spirit...
Average Rating: 4.63 out of 48 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Medicine Horse Productions
Boulder, Colorado
Creation Song
Naropa University - Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $15/10
(Ticket Deals: $7 for Children 12 and under)

Within the Valley of the Dancing Trees, Chief Caribou and Eaglegirl, Grasshopper, Damselfly and Turtle witness the arrival of Captain Monarch, a stranger from a distant future....
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 3 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

DeXdance/T-Lion Body Stories
New York, NY
Light as Air, Heavy as Sound
Naropa University - Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $15/10
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

Two choreographers stir a smattering of concoctions exploring, investigating, provoking, pushing, and entertaining human ideas of boundary, memoir, and crossings. Eight women d...
Average Rating: 4.17 out of 6 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Human Nature Dance Theatre & TinHouse Experimental Dance Theatre
Flagstaff AZ & Boulder CO
Small Moment of Sky
Naropa University - Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $15/12
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

Small Moment of Sky, a spell-binding new work by the creators of Eating and Dreaming, focuses on visceral connections from unexpected places at the absurdist of times. Juxtapos...
Average Rating: 4.68 out of 19 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

The Raleigh Show / Raleigh R. Pinskey
Phoenix, AZ
"Evolution of Soul 685" a One Woman Show
Naropa University - Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $15/10
(Ticket Deals: ALL SHOWS: 2-for-1 special)

I can choose to be a rock star, pick my family, look like a goddess, have 85% chocolate forever? Shut up, get out, what a concept. And so the dilemma begins. To evolve or not t...
Average Rating: 4.33 out of 9 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Astonishing Productions
Lafayette, CO
Gregg Tobo's Astonishing Magic Show
FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church)
Tickets: $12/10

An old-time magic show exploring the power of Belief and the origins of Destiny. Eye-popping magic to awaken your sense of wonder. Prepare to be astonished!
Winner of a 2007...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 9 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Bree Holcombe
Boulder, CO
Pizza Man
FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church)
Tickets: $12/10
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13- 2-for-1 special)

Pizza Man, by Darlene Craviotto, is a dark comedy about life, love, and...well, rape. Julie Rogers, an attractive woman in her late twenties, is having a bad day and because sh...
Average Rating: 4.43 out of 21 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

InterAction Theater
Indianapolis, Indiana
Assholes and Aureoles
FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church)
Tickets: $15/12
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

"Pee-in-your-pants funny...Stringing together six unrelated scenes, the two-woman piece explores all manner of social dysfunction. Domestic violence. Child molestation. Sexual ...
Average Rating: 4.72 out of 18 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Jim Loucks
Venice, CA
Cemetery Golf
FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church)
Tickets: $15/10
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

Jim Loucks' live-wire solo performance takes you back to the Deep South with preachers shoutin’ from the mountaintops, mamas pickin’ switches and Hellfire just a heartbeat away...
Average Rating: 4.25 out of 4 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Lala Theater Company
Boulder Colorado
Requiem For a Snowflake
FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church)
Tickets: $13/11

Meet Petey, a simple clown....Now hand him the steering wheel. Requiem for a Snowflake provides the audience with a new physical poetry dedicated to the enrichment of what th...
Average Rating: 4.78 out of 60 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

SCARAMOUCHE
London, UK
Bedroom Stories
FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church)
Tickets: $15/10

Bedroom Stories is a trilogy of three dramatic pieces. The pieces - described as: An office worker moonlights as a sleepwalking poet, a jealous lover struggles with the exes, ...
Average Rating: 4.00 out of 7 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

WYNOT Radio Theatre
Pueblo, CO
DEATH WORE ELEVATOR SHOES
FUMC Labyrinth (First United Methodist Church)
Tickets: $10/9
(Ticket Deals: Aug 15 - 2-for-1 special)

Dying is easy, comedy is hard...BOILED! DEATH WORE ELEVATOR SHOES is a spoof of the golden age of radio detectives - a time when men were men, dames wore mink, and the sound of...
Average Rating: 4.97 out of 30 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Gunstwork Mask Puppet Theatre
Boulder, CO
Four Wishes, adapted from Joseph Bruchac's Gluskabe and the Four Wishes
CU Museum of Natural History
Tickets: $12/8
(Ticket Deals: Aug 15 - 2-for-1 special, All Shows - $1 Dollar off with ticket stub from the show River Story.)

Winner of the "Encore Performance" 2007 award, Boulder International Fringe Festival. Four Wishes has exquisite puppets, expressive masks and original choreography. It will ign...
Average Rating: 4.75 out of 20 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Jimmy Hogg
Plymouth, UK
Like A Virgin
CU Museum of Natural History
Tickets: $15/10
(Ticket Deals: Aug 14 - 2-for-1 special)

The cheeky Englishman returns to Boulder for a third year with his new solo comedy about the trials of youth, love and loss (of virginity). Physical, fast-paced storytelling wi...
Average Rating: 4.82 out of 11 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Lee Michael Buckman
New York, NY
BAGS: Obsessions of a Hoardaholic
CU Museum of Natural History
Tickets: $15/12
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

Glimpses of an obsessive personality and some of his adventures as he attempts to cling onto objects that he thinks will help him navigate through life. While exploring and att...
Average Rating: 4.75 out of 16 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Margarita Blush
Boulder, CO/Sofia, Bulgaria
River Story
CU Museum of Natural History
Tickets: $12/7
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special, All Shows - $1 Dollar off with ticket stub from the show Four Wishes.)

River Story is a family puppetry performance based on the Bulgarian folk tale “Zlatka, the Girl Made out of Gold”. The show features beautiful hand-crafted puppets, masks, shad...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 12 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

MOTH Theatre in association with Triptych Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
Red Light Winter
Dairy - CARSEN THEATER
Tickets: $10
(Ticket Deals: Aug 22 & Aug 23 @ 2pm - 2-for-1 special)

Somewhere between Amsterdam and New York City is a place caught in an eternal winter under a red light. Sometimes we drift through this place never realizing we were there and ...
Average Rating: 4.83 out of 6 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Fever Theater
Portland, OR
Smiling in the Dark
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA)
Tickets: $12/8
(Ticket Deals: Aug 14 - 2-for-1 special)

Smiling in the Dark is the result of months of research into neuroscience and the phenomenon of emergence. A couple sits down to breakfast and discusses, over grapefruit and te...
Average Rating: 4.69 out of 13 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Jenn Lennon Presents...
Boulder, CO
Room to Grow
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA)
Tickets: $12/10
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

Join solo performer Jenn Lennon as she takes you on a comical romp through the delirium of childhood and its attendant trials and tribulations.
Meet Little Lucy Belle- name...
Average Rating: 3.50 out of 6 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Sarah Syverson
Durango, CO
The Secret Lives of the Divine
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA)
Tickets: $10/5
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

From a spiritual course junkie who never quite makes the Enlightenment Train to a hip-hopping Indian Guru working part-time at Qwest in order to pay the ashram bills - take a r...
Average Rating: 4.69 out of 36 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

square product theatre and WreckingBall Theater Lab
Boulder, CO
Good Girls Don't, But I Do
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA)
Tickets: $12/10
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

"Good Girls Don't, But I Do" is an innovative work incorporating both original and culled texts, movement, and song in an exploration of what it means to be a woman in contempo...
Average Rating: 4.78 out of 80 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Too Much Free Time Productions
Brooklyn, NY
The Last Straight Man In Theatre
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA)
Tickets: $15
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

From Venezuelan male prostitutes to brainy teenage girls with big necks, everyone needs love in some form or another in the dead of night. Have a sparkling sweet butter cookie ...
Average Rating: 3.57 out of 14 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Vicious Trap
Denver, Colorado
a murder one less
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA)
Tickets: $10/8
(Ticket Deals: Aug 14 - 2-for-1 special)

She is a plain and pensive woman. He is a rather ordinary man who lives in an extraordinary house. This house does algebraic equations and plots violence. According to Heisenbe...
Average Rating: 3.77 out of 13 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Maximum Verbosity
Minneapolis, Minnesota
**ALL SHOWS CANCELLED** The Rise of General Arthur
Trident
Tickets: $12/10

The fifth century meets the twenty-first as Lance-Corporal Pellinore is shipped off to Baghdad. It's Arthur's story...as you've never heard it before.
Set against the backdr...
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Mile Hi-Larity: Improv and Sketch Comedy
Denver, Colorado
Comedy A La Carte
Trident
Tickets: $10/8

Denver-based comedy troupe Mile Hi-Larity delivers a fast-paced blend of improv and original sketch comedy. With over 100 different short-form games in their repertoire, and w...
Average Rating: 4.54 out of 13 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Teatro Jaguar Luna
Mexico, San Francisco, California and Planet Venus
Through the Worm Hole
Trident
Tickets: $8
(Ticket Deals: Aug 14 – Donation only)

Question reality. Celebrating more than 5 years of exploring inter-dimensional possibilities, Teatro Jaguar Luna engages mysterious fun with exraterrestial puppet witches, May...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 3 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

5th circle theatre company
Boulder, Colorado
Pick Your Own Path
Community Dance Collective (CDC)
Tickets: $10/8
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special)

5TH CIRCLE presents the latest in their Pick Your Own Path series, The Return of the Mystery of the Journey Through Time to the Secret Lost City of the Evil Robotic Abominable ...
Average Rating: 4.65 out of 54 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Cindy Marvell
Boulder, Colorado
A Juggling Journey
Community Dance Collective (CDC)
Tickets: $8/5
(Ticket Deals: Aug 14 - 2-for-1 special)

Cindy Marvell, Artistic Director of the Boulder Circus Center, turns gravity on its head in this tour-du-frenzy of the new vaudeville world as seen through the eyes of a juggle...
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Theatre Reverb
Brooklyn, NY
Bonne Nuit Poo Poo
Community Dance Collective (CDC)
Tickets: $12/10
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 - 2-for-1 special), All Shows - 2-for-1 with a coupon)

Max, Maxi and the Operator hunt for a living seed in this action-packed collage of pop-culture and apocalyptic fantasy film featuring video, text, movement, dance, and stream-o...
Average Rating: 4.73 out of 30 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Lyra Mayfield Dances
Boulder, CO
Glimpsing the Mystery
1340 King Avenue (BYOV)
Tickets: $15/12

Lyra Mayfield, “Boulder dance icon”, premieres a compelling solo dance concert revealing her sensual and lush movement. “Glimpsing the Mystery” is a journey through dance, poet...
Average Rating: 4.86 out of 7 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Jen Tawse
Boulder,Colorado
Spinning Jenny
Joyful Furniture
Tickets: $7/5

A kooky and spontaneous performance adventure, Jenny may spin one moment into cotton candy and the next into a blue streak of sadness. Come along for the ride! On the spot thea...
Average Rating: 4.67 out of 6 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

100 Camels in the Courtyard
Boulder, CO
The Gift
The Laughing Goat Coffee House
Tickets: 5/4

An experimental musical troupe, 100CC was conceived by orb studio in collaboration with Odyssey Sounds. The band's name comes from a Moroccan proverb: "A pipe of kif before bre...
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Ben Burman
Boulder, CO
Songs of Transformation
The Laughing Goat Coffee House
Tickets: $13/10

Love yourself, forgive yourself, transform yourself, be yourself.
"Songs of Transformation" is a selection of songs, hymns, and a poem written by Ben Burman. These songs enc...
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Cain & April
Denver, CO
My Sister's Keeper
The Laughing Goat Coffee House
Tickets: $8/6
(Ticket Deals: Acoustic EPs available for $3 and full-band album for $5 with ticket purchase.)

April's pure, strong voice and Mark's voice, warm and a little rough, form the core of Cain & April, the two voices pushing and complementing each other. Underneath, April's si...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 1 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

"Concept"
Evergreen, Colorado
"Lines Through Silence"
The Laughing Goat Coffee House
Tickets: FREE!

Improvisations/ Explorations. Dual lines converging/ diverging/ conversing. Paul Mimlitsch (guitar, grossbass recorder, electronics)/ Richard Ball (sax, flutes, upright bass)...
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Dreaming Machines
Denver, Colorado
Dreaming Machines
The Laughing Goat Coffee House
Tickets: $7

Dreaming Machine performances are approached through improvisation with instruments played from all over the world along with bamboo, marbles and an occasional industrial dril...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 2 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Ira Liss
Erie, Colorado
Piano, Poetry, and Passion
The Laughing Goat Coffee House
Tickets: $8/6

With piano, poetry, and passion, Ira Liss packs a lot of drama, pathos, and humor into each of his songs. As his characters wrestle with themselves and circumstance audiences d...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 1 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Jonathan Montgomery
Boulder, Colorado
MeTOO at the Fringe
The Laughing Goat Coffee House
Tickets: $2

Boulder's own Jonathan Montgomery works his ass off poetically theatrically and musically to make people feel happy and less alone...
Jonathan is the author of The MeTOO Poe...
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Mathematically Challenged Quartet
Denver, Colorado
Mathematically Challenged Quartet Plays Songs.
The Laughing Goat Coffee House
Tickets: $5/3
(Ticket Deals: Aug 13 – 3-for-2 special)

The Mathematically Challenged Quartet presents "The History Of Music, from the Mathematically Challenged Quartet's first hit song in 1758 to their last, in 2008. With stops in...
Average Rating: 1.00 out of 1 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

GLOAM
Boulder/Denver
GLOAM
B-Side Lounge
Tickets: $6/5

Come see! The Android renaissance of quixotic quaking urns, exquisite shadows, a floating drummer, a blue face haunting a keyboard, an anonymous eye strum-strumming hum-humming...
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Special Event - Encore!

Fringe Encore! 2009

Tickets: $12/10

The Fringe Encore! 2009 is a unique way to honor the artists that had the best audience response and to give their fans one last chance to see who the patrons couldn't get enou...
Average Rating: 4.33 out of 3 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Workshop!

Going Solo: Creating Your One-Person Show
Naropa University - Lincoln Studio
Tickets: $85 (Register by Aug 11th and get 10% off!)

Solo show boot camp for those who’ve always wanted to create their own show but have no idea where to begin. During this workshop individuals will build characters, text, stori...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 1 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Workshop!

Orchestra of Creation Song: Children's Instrument Making Workshop
Naropa University - Lincoln Studio
Tickets: $10

In this one hour workshop (offered 3 times over 3 days), children will construct handmade instruments ranging from simple drums, shakers, rubber band plucking boxes, bowls and ...
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Workshop!

The Technology of the Circle
Naropa University - Lincoln Studio
Tickets: $85

This two-day workshop will explore the circle as a structure for performed improvisation. The Africanist circle of traditional village politics, of Brazilian Capoeria, of Jazz...
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Workshop!

Out of the box VOX: The art of vocal improvisation
Naropa University - Lincoln Studio
Tickets: $25

In this 4-hour workshop we will explore the art of improvisational singing. We’ll start by creating a supportive environment in which everyone can be heard. Then we’ll learn t...
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Workshop!

A Splendid Moment
Naropa University - Nalanda Campus, Room 9190
Tickets: $375 – scholarships available

Ruth’s passion is the body -- as an expression of the natural world, as a breath of the larger ecological system. All of her trainings and performances explore and reflect this...
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Workshop!

Stage Combat: The Basics
Naropa University - Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $35

Learn the basics of unarmed theatrical combat: how to look like an action star and yet stay safe! ...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 1 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Special Event - Opening Night!
Featuring the “All You Can Artist Buffet” with Jimmy Hogg
2009 Opening Night Party
Naropa University - Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $2-12 (roll of the dice) (Free for 2009 Fringe Artists with pass)

The kick-off of the 5th annual Boulder International Fringe Festival, featuring this years Fringe performers. Open up your Fringe at Naropa University’s Performing Arts Center ...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 2 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Special Event - C.R.A.B.!
The Boulder International Fringe Festival Presents
The Daily C.R.A.B.
Scotch Corner Pub
Tickets: FREE!

Come see the The Daily C.R.A.B. live with the Boulder Fringe Crabaret Band, special guest host Jimmy Hogg from Toronto, Canada, and guest performers. Every night after Fringe s...
Average Rating: 5.00 out of 1 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Special Event - Poetry!
The Boulder International Fringe Festival and the Beat Book Shop Present
So You’re A Fringe Poet
The Laughing Goat Coffee House
Tickets: $3

A special edition of “So you’re a Poet”. An open poetry reading that takes place every Monday night at the Laughing Goat. Tom Peters from the Beat Book Shop welcomes all Fringe...
Average Rating: 4.00 out of 1 Ratings Buy Tickets! Rate It! »read more

Special Event - Film!
The Boulder International Fringe Festival Presents
Fast Forward Fringe – Program A
CU Atlas Building - Room 102
Tickets: $10 - BUY TICKETS!
(Ticket Deals: bring ticket stub for this show to Fast Forward B program on Aug 19 and get $5 off!)

Fast Forward Fringe ~ Program A:

Featuring stop frame animations and live musical accompaniment by Laura Goldhamer of Dovekins

FEATURE PRESENTATION
Natural...
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Special Event - Film!
The Boulder International Fringe Festival Presents
Fast Forward Fringe – Program B
CU Atlas Building - Room 102
Tickets: $10 - BUY TICKETS!
(Ticket Deals: bring ticket stub from Fast Forward A program to this show and get $5 off!)

Fast Forward Fringe ~ Program B:

Featuring stop frame animations and live musical accompaniment by Laura Goldhamer of Dovekins

FEATURE PRESENTATION
Finally...
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Special Event - Flea Market/Kids Event!
The Boulder International Fringe Festival and XO Present
The Hill Flea
Pennsylvania Ave, Between 13th and 12th – University Hill, Boulder CO
Tickets: FREE!

Boulder Fringe Festival and XO join forces to kick off a new community program on the last day of the Festival 2009: Sunday, August 23rd from 10am-5pm. As the best of the fest...
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Special Event - Jam!
The Boulder International Fringe Festival and Naropa University Performing Arts Department Present
Naropa Performance Jam
Naropa University - Performing Arts Center
Tickets: FREE!

Performance Jam is a low-tech playground for fringe artists to mix with the community and perform in a relaxed environment. Everyone is invited to participate, either as perfor...
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