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Fringe Hotspot Venues

February 15, 2011 by Ben Hill

What is a Fringe Hotspot? A Fringe Hotspot is a local business or organization that pledges to provide discounts to the Fringe community during June. Every year, thousands of Fringe-goers converge on Hollywood to see shows, share stories, and mingle as a community. They all need places to drink, eat, shop, and relax. Fringe Hotspots address these needs by providing incentives ... read more

"Best Of" Shorts!

June 01, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jeffrey Wylie Producer/Fierce Backbone Phone: 323-445-1029 Email: [email protected] FIERCE ... read more

WORLD PREMIERE TO BENEFIT NATIONAL ORGANIZATION

April 17, 2013

Los Angeles, CA. April 23, 2013 – Opening night of BEFORE A FALL, a gripping play about child sexual abuse and a 2012 finalist for The Goldberg Prize in playwriting, will serve as a benefit for RAINN, the rape, abuse, and incest national network. On June 9, doors open at The Hudson Backstage Theatre for a 7 PM perform... read more

#Hashtag (Hashtag Hashtag) at the Hollywood Fringe 2013

April 17, 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Do you suffer from status anxiety? Social gridlock? How do you make your mark on a world where everyone’s an amateur artist and an armchair activist? Where do you go when you don’t know what you want from your career? From your relationships? From life? #Hashtag is a new comedy dire... read more

From Arkansas Blizzard to the Hollywood Fringe: THE DRIFTS LIVE!!

May 18, 2012

Author and actor Thom Vernon brings his theatricalized version of his acclaimed novel The Drifts to the Hollywood Fringe this June 8 and 9, and June 14 through 16. You won’t want to miss this live version of a novel Canada’s national newspaper called “a great contemporary twist on the Southern Gothic tradition.” In the harrowing and humorous theatricalized excerpts from his novel, The Dri... read more

Anaconda Invites Controversy and Conversation - Amy Tofte for Bitter Lemons

June 16, 2012

Writer/director Sarah Doyle has some things for you to think about. Her new play, Anaconda—inspired by a 2001 sexually charged bullying scandal at a posh Australian school—premiered tonight at the Hollywood Fringe. And in the tradition of art imitating life, Doyle sees a connection between what happened 10 years ago in Australia and our stateside Sandusky scandal currently at trial in Pe... read more

The Last Five Years

May 15, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Leigh McLeod Fortier or Sandra Kuker (323) 960-7779 Email: [email protected] THE LAST FIVE YEARS Half-price Previews: June 10, 11, 12 Begins June 17t... read more

MOVING PARTS THEATRE PRESENTS PAGAN PLAY AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL JUNE 17-27, 2010

June 02, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MOVING PARTS THEATRE PRESENTS PAGAN PLAY AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE... read more

EAST HOLLYWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ENDORSES VFC JR.

May 29, 2011

Dear Educator and/or Community Leader, Voices From Chornobyl is a play that explores the many impact and health implications of the Chornobyl disaster that changed the world. The play’s intention is to help the children of the region by spreading awareness of the initial and ongoing impacts of the disaster, including the long-term mental, environmental, and physical effects of radiation. ... read more

Bob Birdnow Premieres in Los Angeles at Hollywood Fringe

April 19, 2013

Second Thought Theater Presents In Association with Aviation Cinemas “Bob Birdnow’s Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self” At the Hollywood Fringe Festival DALLAS (April 19, 2013) – Second Thought Theatre and Aviation Cinemas announced today that “Bob Birdnow’s Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and th... read more

JESUS RIDE at The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013

May 11, 2013

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact (for media & photos only): Donna Jo Thorndale, Producer [email protected] 323.868.2487 Press Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/95609398@N06/ DEUS E... read more

"Speed Merchant (of Venice)" receives 2012 Best of Hollywood Fringe Honors

July 02, 2012

“This cast. This adaptation. This production. So good. So very, very good.” – Turnstyle News Adapted by Tiger Reel and Jack Young Directed by Tiger Reel HOLLYWOOD – Action! Theatre Company has announced that they are extending their acclaimed production of SPEED MERCHANT (OF ... read more

“Winner Takes All” Fights "Looks" Hierarchy of Gay L.A.

June 06, 2011

“Winner Takes All,” a dark comedy tackling the “looks” hierarchy in gay L.A., will have its West Coast premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June, after its April premiere at the 35th annual Atlanta Film Festival. “Winner Takes All” follows the unapologetic manipulator Ryker as he engineers a fight between his two lovers….with Ryker himself as the ultimate prize. After all, Ryke... read more

WOOF-WOOF

April 24, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Paul Hoan Zeidler (310) 204-4883 Email:  [email protected] Sewer Socialist Productions present The World Premiere of Paul Hoan Zeidler’s WOOF-WOOF Starring Jay Seals, Brett ... read more

70’S ICON TELLY SAVALAS COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD IN BREAKTHROUGH LOUNGE ACT AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FEST

May 23, 2011

Tom DiMenna Embodies the Legend In “Who Loves You, Baby?” Premiering June 18, 2011 At the Improv Olympic Theater Dir. by Taylor Negron Los Angeles, CA – May xx, 2011 – Telly Savalas (or Kojak as he is more widely known) is making his post-humous debut in Who Loves You, Baby?, a surreal retro-lounge act starring Tom DiMenna and directed by Taylor Negron (Fast Times At Ridgemont High,... read more