The 13th annual Pittsburgh Fringe Festival spreads it wings to 14 venues over 10 days, March 19-28, 2026, where adventurous audiences can choose from among three dozen live experiences in multiple genres.
Pittsburgh Fringe Festival
‘Repulsing the Monkey’ Comes Home to the South Side; Pittsburgh Fringe Finale Spotlights Josephine Baker
By SHARON EBERSON Repulsing the Monkey is coming home to the South Side. The play with the memorable name, about the fate of a family-owned tavern on the Slopes, had its first staged reading at the University of Pittsburgh 10… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Fringe Provides Latest Setting for Daniel Gerroll’s Passion Project, ‘DR GLAS’
UPDATE: Due to a scheduling conflict, the March 26 and 27 shows of the Bebento Productions Inc./Daniel Gerroll show DR GLAS have been cancelled. The schedule goes on as planned March 28-29 at the Bloomfield Garfield Activity Center, 113 North… Read More ›
Fringe Day 3: Brian Gets Up Close and Personal with an Ex-Evangelist, Poet-Composer Duo, and a Socially Conscious Comic
By Brian Pope My day of seeing shows in the 2019 Pittsburgh Fringe Festival was indicative of the event’s change in locale. The proceedings gained a great deal of intimacy in their move from the North Side to Garfield. It… Read More ›
Fringe Day 1-Confronting Insecurities and Relationships in Lola Hughes’ “Two Lines”
By Eva Phillips The portentous, Two Lines of Lola Hughes’ short but impactful play cause a whole lot of intersection and collision for being so starkly parallel. Two Lines is, of course, a double entendre of sorts—the two lines most directly refer to… Read More ›
Five Fringe Shows, So Many Flights of Stairs
Day 3 of Fringe was my marathon day, in which I attempted a feat only dreamed of before. Five shows in one day! I did it, with the help of food trucks, coffee, $3 cocktails, and a brief nap in… Read More ›
Of Art and Church Basements: Fringe 2018
The thing with attending the Fringe Festival is that you can’t really know what to expect. I’m keenly aware of this as I enter St. Mary’s Lyceum; as I enter, the only evidence a festival is occurring appears to be… Read More ›
Three Bearded Dudes and That One Girl: Fringe Day 3
The final night of the 5th Annual Pittsburgh Fringe Festival found me in yet another basement for three more shows, this time at the Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church. Unlike the prior night’s venue at St. Mary’s Lyceum, this location was… Read More ›
Fringe Festival in Three Shows
This is only my second year seeing Fringe Fest shows, but I feel like I’m already a pro at it. For instance, this year I didn’t get lost trying to find St. Mary’s Lyceum, and once I walked inside I… Read More ›
Fringe Day 3: St. Mary’s Lyceum: Part 2
Local Pittsburgh buskers, Sean Miller and Kristin Ward are The Daring Douglasses. If you have been to any Pittsburgh events over the past couple decades, you most likely have seen them, a large crowd standing in a circle, watching with… Read More ›