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2008 Festival Dates: July 10-27, 2008

The Capital Fringe Festival is an annual performing arts festival in Washington, DC featuring more than 500 performances in several venues around the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, DC. The Capital Fringe Festival introduces new, risk-taking art, and non-traditional performances including theater, dance, music, poetry, puppetry and more.

See Photos of the Capital Fringe Festival and get a glimpse of what to expect of these offbeat performances.

The concept of the festival dates back almost sixty years to Scotland's famed Edinburgh International Festival. "Fringe" was the name taken by performance groups excluded from this prestigious event. Undaunted and determined, these companies created makeshift theatres on the outskirts - or "fringe" - of the established festival. Soon the Fringe Festival gained a large and loyal following, outstripping the mainstream festival.

The Fringe Festival concept migrated to Canada in the 1980s, and today that country boasts Fringe Festivals from coast to coast. In the early 1990s, the fringe concept was embraced in the United States, and today Fringe Festivals are annual events in Orlando, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York.

Capital Fringe Festival Locations and Schedule

A full list of participating artists, venues and performance times is available online at www.capfringe.org.

Tickets

Ticket prices range from FREE to $35 with an average price of $15. Two Festival passes are currently on sale, an All-Access Pass for $300 and a Six-Pack Pass for $75. With an All-Access Pass, a patron can get a ticket to any performance. With a Six-Pack pass, a patron can get six shows for the price of five and have the flexibility to see six individual performances, bring five friends to one performance or anything in between. Tickets to individual performances go on sale July 9th.

Individual performance tickets will be on sale in advance. Tickets will also be sold at performance venues 1 hour before show. (Cash only)

To purchase tickets, call (866) 811-4111 or purchase tickets online or visit the Festival Box Office at the Warehouse Downtown Arts Complex at 1012–21 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC.