My journey to Prague began as a postcard, truth be told: one of those faded, crumpled cards in a flea market long ago – I don’t remember where or when. The city in that vintage black-and-white photograph seemed filled with castles, with shuttered windows and cobblestones and statues and balconies, and drifts of white snow, […]
The word arancini in Italian means “little oranges.” But in the Sicily that named them, going back to the Arab occupation in the 12th century, they are actually no such thing. Arancini will be devoured in abundance during the Catania Off Fringe Festival, scheduled October 16-26, 2025. The idea of establishing a Fringe in this […]
Holly Lombardo is the co-founder and managing director of World Fringe, a Britain-based organization that helps Fringe Festivals all over the world do better and be better. We caught up with Holly recently and asked her all the “Fringe things” we most wanted to know. She obviously knows them. 1. What inspired you to work […]
A new fundraising effort being pushed by the Edinburgh Fringe will help several US-based acts participate in the original fringe theater festival in the Scottish capital this coming August. According to Edinburgh’s Fringe Society, the grants provided by Keep It Fringe US will help a new generation of performers follow in the footsteps of early […]
Art lovers witnessing the birth of the fringe festival in 1947 Edinburgh may have felt an intriguing twinge of familiarity. After all, the creation of a rebellious exhibit to protest the stodgy Paris Salon was something their art form had seen 84 years earlier. In the role of the (actually wonderful) Edinburgh International Festival, there […]
In the exhausted aftermath of World War II, when even the victors faced visible and emotional devastation, a group of arts visionaries in Edinburgh, Scotland, figured out what their city truly needed. And maybe the world needed it too. Someone had to celebrate centuries of pan-European culture and the classical music, dance and theater it […]