Every evening when Fringe performances end, the night comes alive at BIG TIME Daily!  It’s the place where Fringe audience members, artists and crew can come together to kick back with a cold beverage and enjoy this informal variety show … Continue reading →

Join us in the McMahon Gallery of the Dairy Center for the Arts as we celebrate the final day of the 2012 Fringe and the Fringe Encore artists! Awake to mimosas, dine on delectable Fringe fare, hobnob with Fringe artists, … Continue reading →

You’ve just seen an amazing show and have some time before the next show on your list. What to do? Hit up the Fringe Beer Garden on the back patio of Folsom St. Coffee, of course! Relax in the shade … Continue reading →

Join us for a full day of art, madness and beauty! The Fringe Encore! 2012 is a unique opportunity to see the shows that had the best audience response. The show that sells the most tickets in each venue will … Continue reading →

Chill out at Fringe Central 2012 with R & R, roundtables and recreations, fun-filled games, talks, panels and presentations on topics including the Healing Arts, Arts and Business, Body Work, Educational Workshops, and more! Think TED Talks but without the … Continue reading →

*THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELED* An introduction for performers in working with stage directions as somatic choreography. Example: “waits” from Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett, or “examining his foot” from same. Simply knowing the source and author saturates the … Continue reading →

12-minute dance at 12 noon for the 12 days of the Fringe! On the fringe of the Fringe, this outdoor project by choreographer Mary Wohl Haan, plays upon last year’s exuberant and physically expressive event, but with a new twist. … Continue reading →

Are you working with or leading a group? Do you belong to a group? Would you like to increase your confidence, and become more effective, creative and conscious in your contribution to the group? Then welcome to MatrixWorks™, a model … Continue reading →

Boulder International Fringe Festival and students of the Naropa Contemporary Performance Program invite you to the Performance Jam! This is an informal cabaret designed for Fringe artists to mix with the community. All artists from the community and beyond are … Continue reading →

Long Live Delusions! The whole world has gone crazy and one man must take control to make sure humanity survives! See four psyches in a battle royal for delusional conquest.Who will win? Andy Pratt will attempt to tame four personalities … Continue reading →

An old-time magic show to awaken your sense of wonder! Sophisticated magic for all ages and four-time winner of the Boulder Fringe Encore Award! Prepare to be astonished! Gregg Tobo returns to the Boulder Fringe with new magic and an … Continue reading →

What do you get when you throw down with Titania and Oberon in the great outdoors of Colorado?  A fierce and fiery, sexy and fun, lovers’ adventure!  Join us for Shakespeare’s classic summer comedy, set in the most brilliant of … Continue reading →

How to Open a Cupboard is the physical manifestation of our inner nostalgia, both crippling and jubilant.  It uncovers what we bottle in, what we eradicate, and what we coffer away forever.  Through dance and storytelling, the five performers fully … Continue reading →

The hero in the movie of my life has always been my mom. The costumes alone! And she has this way of walking, where she almost seems ready to swing a racket or conduct a choir or something. You just … Continue reading →

Why do you go to the movies for? For fun of course! Well, there’s more fun in the first five minutes of “You’ll Never Be Alone” than in any other movie of this year! 1929 is going to be remembered … Continue reading →

Set in the dirty thirties, right around the Dustbowl, Holey Smokes is about a mysterious hole that just appears on a farmer’s property one day. To some people it grants their heart’s desire, to others their greatest fear. No one … Continue reading →

Boulder County seniors’ tales of love, loss, and rediscovery come alive at the Boulder History Museum during the Fringe! Guided by area playwrights in the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s summer classes, local residents shared tales from their personal histories while … Continue reading →

A fully-improvised, ever-evolving, audience-fueled theater/social science experiment. Cultural anthropologists traveling through space and time, Cec and Gwen hope to earn membership to The Royal Geographic Society with their sure-to-be-definitive work, The Compleat History of All human Cultures from Nascent Toolmakers … Continue reading →

Cielo Vertical Arts. stretches the boundaries of vertical art into new evocative territory. Artistic Director, Heather Baer creates multifaceted vertical art, enabling interactions between the human body, kinetic sculpture, video projection, and the immediate vertical environment. The Piece “ALLURE” Came … Continue reading →

*THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELED* Funny, sensitive, sometimes delirious, the musical “Demain l’Aurore” (Tomorrow’s Dawn) is about a love affair between 2 teens nowadays. It also explores intergenerational relationships. A kind of immersion into the heart of today’s youth in … Continue reading →

The real law of attraction: YOU CANNOT ATTRACT WHAT YOU WANT – YOU CAN ONLY ATTRACT WHAT YOU ARE. So, what will you attract into your life?  What will you win from the arcade machine that never seems to work … Continue reading →

The Voice is a remarkable, ground-breaking solo piece on sex addiction & recovery. Riveting, at times hilarious, always entertaining, the work is ultimately a powerful spiritual journey dealing with one of today’s major social issues.”Kleinberg forges a safe passage through … Continue reading →

“***Roll up, roll up for the Mystery Detour!*** 9 TIME BEST-OF-FEST-PERFORMER, Wilcox returns with a sparkling new multi-character, one-woman show, exploring the unexpected twists and turns of Life and Love… The Magical Mystery Detour is coming to take you away! … Continue reading →

High Fiction, the popular music webzine, is hosting its first ever Battle of the Bands.  Six bands will compete in a no-holds-barred deathmatch.  You decide who survives!  Written and conceived by Gary Grundei and Amy Shelley with Amanda Berg Wilson, … Continue reading →

An idiosyncratic and illogical sojourn into the life of an ant family through the efforts and hard work of a gold medal winning (and wearing) post-post-modern dance team. The ants move their furniture as they have done for thousands of … Continue reading →

The Longmont Chorale Singers will present a program of choral music that spans four centuries from Europe and America. This afternoon of choral music will offer a little something for everyone. The eclectic program of accompanied and a capella selections … Continue reading →

See the one woman show that’s taken San Francisco by storm!  Loved by You: a Self-love Story will remind you that it’s never too late to find true-love…within.  Refusing to act her age, a 40-something woman grapples with some difficult … Continue reading →

*THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELED* Master storyteller and social/political commentator, Mark Whitney is the only spoken word artist (besides Drew Carey) to be profiled on Robert McKee’s Storylogue. McKee also features Whitney in his promotional materials with Russell Brand. Critics … Continue reading →

Improvisor and performance artist Melissa Birch ignites a GenX perspective on graduated gender spectacle and the absurd systems it both profits from and resists in this audacious post-feminist romp. As a performance-maker and vocalist in pre-Gaga America, Melissa produced live … Continue reading →

Vain, naïve, beautiful Velma knows what she wants—everything! But postwar Los Angeles is an emotional minefield for a single mother following her own path. She is ahead of her time—she studies yoga with a guru, eats a vegetarian diet, and … Continue reading →

Mile Hi-Larity, a Denver-based comedy troupe, has performed improv comedy, written customized sketches, and led team-building events for hundreds of clients and audiences.  Formed in 1998, they have performed over 300 shows for over 18,000 audience members during the past … Continue reading →

The MORE experience began quite by accident, until we realized it wasn’t. Turns out the project was cooking us years before it revealed its clever alchemy.  Clever because we never saw it coming. Alchemy because it has never been the … Continue reading →

Nicoll + Oreck Dance Theater returns to Boulder with “Still Napping,” a darkly humorous work using illusion, free-wheeling physicality, video and musical/verbal interplay to examine critical moments—from global warming to Wall Street fraud—that we might have accidentally slept through. Brooklyn-based … Continue reading →

The lights go up and no one, including the actors, knows what will happen. ONE ACT presents an edgy and fully improvised one-act play at every performance. Comedy, tragedy and drama unfold in the moment, right before your eyes. Incorporating … Continue reading →

Peg-ass-us is a melt-your-heart sweet, get-you-wet sexy, pee-your-pants funny burlesque love story. A charmingly mismatched, real-life couple use puppets, sing-a-longs, and comedy to guide audiences through the “ins-and-outs” of pegging, explore the connections between sexuality and identity, and deliver the … Continue reading →

This summer, the US based clown ensemble, Pi: The Physical Comedy Troupe, brings the Wild West to the north.  Incredible acrobatics, high speed horse races, and duels to the [overly dramatic] death await you in this fast paced circus and … Continue reading →

Poor Richard’s second appearance in the Fringe Festival will feature original choreography by Caitlin Sikora, Kasey Hall, and Claire Brunelli, along with original music by Boulder musician Chris Sikora.  The feature work “Lapse” will explore (mis)communications and expressions of love, … Continue reading →

Girl sees boy. Boy likes girl. Scratch that. Aren’t best friends supposed to tell you when you have food stuck in your teeth? Maybe. Siblings know how to cut the deepest. I’ll always love you no matter what…. Promises. Slander. … Continue reading →

Sam James is a folk singer with a message. The message? Well, it can’t be printed here but it’s not a bad word or anything. James, after all, is a family-friendly entertainer, as comfortable singing in day care centers as … Continue reading →

NOTE: Screw You Entertainment is presenting “Strange Dreamz” instead of the initially scheduled “Screw You Review” This is a hybrid of comedic storytelling and concert featuring original music and stories about gay life in modern America. A recent audience member … Continue reading →

Imagine if …Hitler had been good instead of evil? …a slave un-lynched in the deep South …a past in which lessons are learned …a present in which enlightenment is power …and a future transformed by love sin-thesis: 1) re-defining sin … Continue reading →

Coming from Steamboat Springs’ highly successful Pirate Theatre group, this multimedia musical comedy features a cast of ski bums from a Colorado mountain town, including Snowman, Rocky, Dude and Hardcore, as they work through the daily struggles of ski mountain … Continue reading →

Winner of the Laurence Olivier Best New Comedy Award A comedy that will touch your heart as you become immersed in the quirky lives of Henri, Philippe and Gustave. Henri is afflicted by a gammy leg, Gustave suffers from agoraphobia, … Continue reading →

The creator of Fringe hits BRUISER and HUFFS returns with a collection of rude, embarrassing, and hilarious tales, told from the perspective of a loud mouth gal just trying to make her way through the Windy City. Along the way … Continue reading →

…and I think you’ve all tired of me dancing my grief. Illusion of control Believe what you want The moment of death It’s all beginnings With no end in sight An exploration between grief and the dead “There would be … Continue reading →

Teens Inspiring Community Arts’ (TICA) goal is to inspire teens to come together as a community through the arts, giving youth a voice and a chance to work together and express themselves in a safe and welcoming environment. TICA is … Continue reading →

Calling all bicyclists, adventurers, armchair adventurers: you’ll like the true travel tales, and the “Funny Signs you don’t like to see when on the road by bicycle.” Tom Snyders, “The Bicycling Comedian,” is once again pedaling his fully loaded touring … Continue reading →

Trainwreck Productions is proud to present this wild and physically vigorous performance. As an ensemble-generated original work “Professor Philistine” incorporates physical theater, song, installation art, and dance to create a paradoxical story: Inspired by Grendel, the monster from the classic … Continue reading →

This sell-out New York and Indy Fringe show is comic book romance story that tells the hilarious and sexy tale of a would be thief who is captured by four college roommates who share the apartment he is burglarizing.  Instead … Continue reading →

A huge hit every year, the opening night “All You Can Artist Buffet” is a high-energy kick off to the Fringe Festival, where each Fringe artist gets one minute to preview their show. Hosted by the boisterous Kelsie Huff and … Continue reading →

You’ve got a story to tell, right? Well, why not tell that story into a microphone in front of a bunch of drunk people! Kelsie Huff will lead a short intensive on generating material from your own experience for stand … Continue reading →

Join Nii Armah Sowah and the 1000 Voices Project for an afternoon of participatory song and community celebration for all ages! 1000 Voices Project was founded on the conviction that whenever we raise our voices collectively, change is inevitable. The … Continue reading →

Learn West African song and dance in this lively workshop led by Adjei Abankwah and other musicians and dancers from the BaoBao Festival. The hour-long class, which features live drumming, engages participants with a sense of joyful celebration and community. … Continue reading →

An interactive marketplace and community edu-tainment playspace, the Hill Flea is designed to be a dynamic destination for city and county residents of all ages, fusing creativity with education and experience. One part vintage flea market, one part interactive workshop, … Continue reading →

A performance by a unique and talented group of individuals. Hard work and integrity can overpass any type of challenge. At CORE/Labor source, the mission is to provide opportunities for social, vocational and educational growth to adults with physical and … Continue reading →

Learn how to portray comedic roles in theatre and film. Dance, mime, pratfalls, stage combat, and overall physical versatility are all important for any would-be Bill Irwins or Mr. Beans. Branches of movement arts covered will include: clowning bits, mime … Continue reading →

The (Big) BIG TIME! is Boulder Fringe’s event right before the festival begins in August and we invite some of our Fringe artists plus local artists to perform and show short previews of their upcoming shows! BIG TIME! is a … Continue reading →