FringeNYC 2012 - Your Personal Guide to The 16th Annual New York International Fringe Festival

Hy on the Fringe: Your Personal Guide to the

2012 New York International Fringe Festival

This Key Info Page Was Most Recently Updated: Monday August 27th 2012

Key FringeNYC Info

For whatever you might want to know about FringeNYC 2012—plus a bunch of resources you may not have even realized existed—please check out the following:

For the FringeNYC 2012 program guide, please click here.

For the official map & schedule guide to FringeNYC 2012, please click here.

To search for a show based on its title, company, writer, director, choreographer, broad category, showtimes, venue, place of origin, and/or ethnicity, please click here and then use the search feature on the left.

Please note the Plan Your Staycation option lets you search via thematic categories—e.g., selecting Celeb/Reality TV in Hollywood will list shows that are in some way about show biz.

For clickable links to all FringeNYC 2012 shows, ordered alphabetically, please click here.

For a chronological list of FringeNYC 2012 shows, complete with runtimes, in an Excel spreadsheet (great for planning a schedule if you'll be catching multiple shows per day), please click here.
For a concise text-only list of FringeNYC 2012 shows, ordered alphabetically, with only descriptions, running times, venues, and showtimes (great for printing out and taking with you), please click here.

If you're seeking family-friendly shows, you can find productions likely to be enjoyed by kids here and that may be of interest to teens here.

For a guide to FringeCentral at 1 East 8th Street, just off Fifth Avenue (the A/B/C/D/E/F/M subways to West 4th Street—via the 8th Street exit—or the #6 subway to Astor Place, or the N/R subways to 8th Street, will get you without a few blocks), please click here.

For information on buying tickets (options range from $15 for single tickets in advance, to $12 each when you commit to buying 10 tickets, to an all-you-can-see pass for $500), please click here.

If you're seeking other discounts, and you're okay with obtaining tickets from the FringeCentral box office at least 24 hours in advance of the show, please note:

If you're 65 or older, you can purchase any ticket available at the box office for $10.

If you have a child under 12 who you want to take to a Fringe Jr. show, bring your child to the box office to pay just $10 for his/her ticket. You can find a list of this year's Fringe Jr. shows by clicking here.

A little-known but effective way to save on tickets is to buy TDF vouchers, which cost $9 each (plus shipping/handling) and can be used to purchase any show available at the FringeCentral box office. You don't have to be a member of TDF to benefit from this service; it's open to all. Plus the vouchers can be used for off-off-Broadway shows beyond FringeNYC shows. Simply click here to purchase one or more sets of vouchers; each set consists of four vouchers, totaling $36. Vouchers are typically processed and mailed to you within 24 hours of your order. (If you don't need to save the extra dollars, though, buy directly from the FringeCentral box office; it's quicker and easier, and more of your money goes directly to supporting FringeNYC.)

For a guide to the 19 venues playing host to FringeNYC 2012 shows, please click here.

For a Google map to FringeCentral and FringeNYC 2012's 19 venues, please click here.
For a schedule FringeCentral Teasers—that is, live previews of FringeNYC 2012 shows, which run on August 2-3 and 9-10 at FringeCentral, and on August 18-19 along East 4th Street—please click here.

To learn more about Fringe Club, which also provides live previews of FringeNYC 2012 shows, but in a late-night setting that makes it easy to casually mingle with FringeNYC artists, please click here. The location of Fringe Club will be Venue #4, Jimmy's No. 43, at 43 East 7th Street (between Second and Third Avenues). Doors are slated to open at 11:00 pm on Thursday 8/16 and 8/23 for casual conversation; and on Friday and Saturday nights on 8/10, 8/11, 8/17, 8/18, 8/24, and 8/25 at midnight for live previews of shows by FringeNYC peformers via a showcase called the FringeClub Midnight Variety Power Hour.