New York Fringe Festival Returns in April With 75 Shows

The New York Fringe Festival will run this April across venues in both Manhattan and Brooklyn. Between April 1-19, 75 shows will premiere at UNDER St. Marks and wild project in the East Village, the Studio and Mainstage at the Chain Theatre in Midtown, and The Rat NYC in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The festival is led by FRIGID New York (formerly the Frigid New York Festival).

Artists applied to put on their work at the New York City Fringe Festival through an open lottery-based system. They also receive 100 percent of the box office proceeds.

Participating plays and musicals include Julie McNamara's A "Confessional" of A Recovering Catholic: The Musical, Michelle Renee Johnson's Extra Dry, Chris Chan Roberson's Hemeroscopium, Jesse Bradley-Amore's How I Learned (NOT) To Drive, Kona Morris' How to Poop in an Outhouse at -72°F, Killy Dwyer's Midlife Catharsis (A Solo Musical About Surviving, Surrendering and Surfing), Fabiana Mattedi's Notes on Collagen, Frances Smith's Our Price to Pay, Heather Seltzer's Portia and Ellen (a comedy a dramedy it’s complicated), Amy Veltman's PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement, Justin Avery Smith's Revenge of the Soy Boy, Vincent Marano's Squire D. Rathbone, Esq, Trinidad Alcorta's Stations of Life, Josh Cab's The Darren Podcast Show LIVE, Rose Treloar's Watch Me Sleep, Martin Dockery's 1 Small Lie: Martin Dockery, Francesca Bolam's Book Club, Meg Millane's Bride to Be, Star Stone's Cl*t Cult, Andrew Trimmer's Crushed Velvet, Azhar Bande-Ali's Desi SNL, Fletcher Michaes Did You Charge Your Phone For The End Of The World?, Nikolai Phalen's Fever Dream TV, Emily Andrew's Four Stupid Terrorists, Becca Canziani, Brooke Ferris, Lynn Hodeib and Ania Upstill's How to Become a Saint (While Wearing Pants), Vicky Virgin's In Preparation of War, Jefferson Lind & Sayali Gove's The Sexiest Man Alive, AKIL e. pinckney's TRAPPED: The Weekend and the Search for "LOVE", Jackson Sturkey & Will Studabaker's XOXO: Love Letters from NYC, Alexis Sakellaris's A STAN IS BORN!, Mary Corigli ano's Apoloholics: Based On True Stories of People Who Apologize Too Much, Hamdan Azhar's Becoming Hamdan Azhar, AJ Rose's Crosswords, Azadeh Kangarani's Echoes of My Silence, Robert Coppola & Rhett duPont Vecchio's House of Waffle, Lawrence Nichols Hennessy's Induction, Omalolu Fiki's Killing Janet, Elina Kaplun's Lunatic, Makie & Jerel Armstrong's Miracle of the Star, Christian De Gré Cárdenas's Monstruo! By K(c)abil, 2048, Jared Scheinberg's Panic in the Bathroom, Max Kantor's Slut Liturgy, Paul Shearman's The Last Audition, Ibsen Santos & Aaron Zook's Thoughts and Prayers, Jennifer McAuliffe's Chip on Her Shoulder, Katheryn McGaffigan's Follower, Zack Reardon's Gnosis, Martina Demaio And Elian Wigisser's In Between the Moon and the Sun, Edu Díaz's Lipstick, Vanessa Codorniu's PERRA PUTA LOCA BRUJA: A Latina's Réclamation Journey, Andy Paluselli's Real Men Wear Scarves in Pittsburgh, Ed Flynn's The Box Factory, Brian James Polak's The Meeting, Ray Crisara's The Most Normal of My Weird Friends, Lauren Letellier's The Village Cidiot, Cyrus Deboo's There's Something Seriously Wrong With Cyrus, Rose-Ingrid Benjamin's White as Snow, Martina Demaio and Alice Litchfeld's Who Does Your Laundry?, Anthony P. Pennino's Your Love Isn't Love, Bailey Swilley's A Baby For Me? No Thank You, Please!, Venessa Peruda's All The Rage, Gada Jane's Becoming Psychic, Alina Garcia-Burke's Black Trashbag Magic, Jason Flood's Chase Montana: From Funny to Fatherhood (A New Yorkers Story), Katherine Hume's fainting couch: a one woman show... (with a butler), Debora Fromm's Hagnificent, Pete Cheema's How Not To Feel, Acting Political's Mother., Elizabeth George's Online & Personal, Rodney Brazil and Benjamin Farha's Presley Tweed: Fancy AF, Pierre de Marivaux and Marisa Stefatos' The Isle of Slaves Revisited - A Theatrical and Musical Spectacle For Our Times, Tai Chatur's The Third Choice, Veronica Manning's The Total Veronica Experience, and Sean Gordon's Walter Schlinger's Romeo and Juliet. 

Tickets are available on a sliding scale and can be purchased online; many performances will also be available to livestream. For tickets, performance dates, and more information, visit frigid.nyc.