Announcing the 2026 Tyler Fringe Touring Fund Awardees
The Tyler Fringe Touring Fund was created to support artists touring work through open-access Fringe festivals across North America. The Fund is named in honor of Edward Glenn Tyler (1964–2006), a visionary movement artist from Cheverly, Maryland. Tyler’s interdisciplinary practice, spanning performance, visual art, costume design, and set creation, sought to illuminate the blind spots […]
Funding Opportunity
The Ed Tyler Fringe Touring Fund is open for applications through November 30, offering two annual awards of $10,000 each. Named for visionary movement artist Edward Glenn Tyler, the fund honors his fearless spirit and supports bold, self-produced, artist-led productions. The Tyler fund supports artists bringing work to open-access Fringe Festivals across the U.S. and […]
Book of Fringe & Archival Project
The Book of Fringe is a narrative that traces the rise of the Capital Fringe Festival, from its beginnings at Fort Fringe to the unpredictable moments that shaped its growth. The story unfolds alongside a rapidly gentrifying Washington, DC, through political tides that shifted from Bush to Trump. Drawing primarily from Julianne Brienza’s photography and […]
Down to Earth Floodlines and Storylines
This winter and spring, Capital Fringe had the privilege of partnering once again with Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens through our visual art program Down to Earth—a residency that invites artists to respond to one of DC’s most ecologically rich and culturally layered public parks. The work that emerged was quietly radical: immersive and deeply […]
Celebrating Two Decades of Creativity and Growth, and Introducing a New Chapter
It is with a heavy heart that Capital Fringe announces it will no longer produce the annual Fringe Festival. We are immensely proud of the impact twenty years of an open-access Fringe Festival has had on DC’s arts scene and are deeply grateful to the artists, audience members, volunteers, community members, festival and program staff, […]
Down to Earth 2024 – 2025 Selected Artists
We are excited to announce the re-launch of our visual arts program for 2024–2025, in partnership with Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Our goals with Down to Earth are twofold. First, we aim to provide earning opportunities for outstanding DC-based artists by offering them a funded period to create new work. Second, we seek to […]
AUDIENCE AWARDS & FESTIVAL RESULTS
17th Annual Capital Fringe Festival Honors Audience Favorites after 8 Days of Performances 36 Productions; 138 Individual Shows Thank you to the thousands of Fringe theater-goers who took a chance on the unexpected by attending the 2024 Capital Fringe Festival in the Golden Triangle/Dupont/Downtown DC neighborhood. The Capital Fringe Festival sold 57% of available tickets (7,010) to […]
Happy #happydcfringe
The theme of this year’s Fringe Festival revolves around “Happy.” How do we perceive and cherish moments of happiness in our lives today? What defines happiness in the Nation’s Capital? Is Washington, DC truly a happy city? What happens to our brains when we are happy verses when we are sad or experiencing grief? To […]
Free Lunchtime Concerts Jun 20 & Jul 11
Join in on celebrating tickets going on sale (June 20) and opening day of the Fringe Festival (July 11). Theatre and Dance artists producing in this year’s Festival will be in attendance passing out their postcards. June 20 12pm – 1:30pm: This concert is canceled due to the heatwave! Stay cool (we hope to reschedule). Cheick […]
fringe Happy 2024
The time is near for this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, our annual celebration of theatre and freedom of expression. In 2024, the Capital Fringe Festival will feature entirely original theatre, dance, and unclassifiable productions with a total of 150 cast and crew members, 83% of whom are from the DMV area and 17% from across […]