Milwaukee Fringe Festival

Milwaukee Fringe Festival, the region’s newest city-wide art festival is a two-day performance and visual art event celebrating Milwaukee’s vibrant and diverse arts scene. The inaugural event will take place Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28 in downtown Milwaukee at Pere Marquette Park, The Marcus Center’s Wilson Theater at Vogal Hall and Todd Wehr Theater and surrounding venues.

The Milwaukee Fringe Festival will showcase more than 50 live acts from theater, music, dance and visual art from the Greater Milwaukee area. Notable theater acts participating are Renaissance Theatreworks, Bronzville Arts Ensemble and Theatre Gigante. Dance groups presenting shows include Catey Ott Dance Collective, Radermacher Dance and Hyperlocal, among many others. The festival will also feature a music performance from Nineteen Thirteen, and a music lineup of over 20 local bands, to be announced in later this June.

The event will provide an opportunity for emerging artists to be discovered while strengthening the fabric of Milwaukee’s arts community. Festival creative director John Schneider describes the festival as “A collaborative, interactive, inter-generational, multidisciplinary performance exhibition meant to thank the people of Milwaukee for sustaining an environment in which the arts are genuinely valued and great work is possible.”

The event will feature free outdoor performances in Pere Marquette Park and along the Milwaukee River, as well as ticketed indoor performances at the Marcus Center’s Vogel Hall and Todd Weir Theatre. The event will also feature some of the Milwaukee’s most popular food trucks and a beer garden provided by Old German Beer Hall.

2016 Milwaukee Fringe Festival - Live Performances

Todd Wehr Hall
Saturday
Wisconsin Hybrid Theatre
All in Productions
Chad Piechocki
Distance Dance
Kelsey Lee
Tiny Dancers
The Lucchesi Project: A Staged Reading of The Two Rivers, a family drama
Cadance Collective
SueMo
Nineteen Thirteen
Tontine Ensemble

Todd Wehr Hall
Sunday
KACM Theatrical Productions
Twin Talk & The Gina Laurenzi Dance Project
Thom Cauley
Language Liberation Front Players
Dawn Springer Dance Projects
UWM Dance/Caroline Seigworth
Hyperlocal
Cooperative Performance Milwaukee
Theatre Gigante

Peck Pavilion (Sunday Only)
Feast of Crispian
Lights! Camera! Soul!
Summit Players Theatre
dieforArt Productions
Thoroughbred

Vogel Hall
Saturday
Moved to Be
Draves Dance Collective
Parallel and Fusion Dance Collective
Janus Theatre
Red Light Collaborative
Radermacher Dance Company
BOINK! Dance and Film
Bronzeville Arts Ensemble
Maria Gillespie
Quasimondo Physical Theatre

Vogel Hall
Sunday
Imaginez Ensemblez
Renaissance Theaterworks
Project Non-Violence
Catey Ott Dance Collective
Kathryn Cesarz
Reconstructing Grimm
LakeArts Project
Ariel Asch & Foreign Fields
Angry Young Men

Pere Marquette Park (Various)
Peter J Woods
KJ Prodigy
Alice Wilson
Anja Sieger
Salsabrossa
Panadanza
Circle Art

Produced by the Milwaukee Fringe Festival at Downtown Milwaukee, Pere Marquette Park, surrounding event venues and the Milwaukee

Performances: August 27-28, 2016

Performance Times: TBA

Ticket Prices: TBA

More info is available via the Milwaukee Fringe Fest website, www.mkefringe.com. Emal info@mkefringe.com for questions.