FRINGEPVD The Providence Fringe Festival
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  • 2025 Shows
    • 50% of Presence
    • A Wolf in Ex's Clothing
    • Actress Waiting to Audition
    • An Outer Bounds Sketch Comedy Show
    • And the Band Plays On
    • Apocalypse King; Or, the legacy of small hands (an anti-anti intellectual play) also known as, No one panic! It’s just late stage capitalism!
    • Beastly: An Autobiographical Feminist Folk Tale
    • Blue Cow Bells: Six Short Plays
    • Cabaret Jeté
    • Childhood Nostalgia
    • Chin Up
    • CHRONIC PAin au chocolat
    • Circumscribed: A True Tall Tale of One Father, Two Sons, and Thousands of Foreskins
    • Connecting the Dots
    • Drunken Folk Music
    • Escape from the Zoo
    • Fatso Goes to McDonald's (and other short plays)
    • fidget. spinster.
    • Folk Music for the 21st Century
    • franny keeps live
    • God and Manic Depression
    • Golden Arches
    • How Much Can You Change for Someone You Love?
    • How to Get a Second Husband
    • husk/vessel
    • I Am Going To Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes)
    • I Love You, Satan
    • In A Minute
    • Jacob and the Jellyfish
    • Life's Canvas
    • Literary Monsters
    • Marge the Pizza Presents: A Slice of Life
    • Me'leven
    • MetroGnome: A Fully Improvised Musical
    • Modern Butchood
    • Morality Play
    • Ms. Steak's Mistakes
    • Murder, Meth and Mayhem: a folk opera
    • Escape from the Zoo
    • Obsessive Comedy Disorder
    • Of Petals and Fire
    • One Dead, One Alive
    • Oops! All Songs - One Providence Place: A Mall Musical
    • Persistence
    • Pierrot < 3 Moon
    • Piggy Wants to Fly
    • PROMISCUOUS METALS
    • RHODE DAWN!!!
    • Shelter from the Storm
    • The Call to Adventure: An Improvised Epic
    • THE CALLING, or BROKE
    • "The Clothes Make The Man: A Loving Satire On 'Mrkn Fashion Featuring 'The Man In White' And The Developing Country Band"
    • the estate sale
    • The Farm
    • The Fear is Becoming Normal
    • The Gospel According to Susan: Confessions of a (Transgender) Serial Killer
    • The Greatest Betrayal
    • The Lady of Shalott
    • The Navel Gazers
    • The Stronger
    • The Waste Land
    • Too Fat for China
    • Travel “Whore”: The Backside of International Relations
    • Trolley Stop(s)
    • Two Passengers
    • Unscripted: The Everchanging One Act Play
    • Whatever Fate Decides
    • When Cayden Came
    • WomenInShorts Part Deux
    • "Would I Lie to You?" Played by PIG Performers
    • Zauber Magic Flute Enchantée
  • Special Events
    • "Let's Fringe!" Opening Night Party
    • Busking at the Fringe!
    • Open Mic Night
    • Motion State Arts Dance Classes
    • Artist Mixer
    • Sims Ave Fest + Family Fringe!
    • Haus of Codec LGBTQQIA+ Resource Fair & ART Marketplace
    • ACCESSIBILITY IS BEAUTIFUL
    • Playwrights’ Mixer @ LitArts RI
    • Closing Party
  • Venues
    • 50 SIMS
    • ALCO
    • Buttonwoods Brewery
    • Farm Fresh
    • ISCO
    • LitArts RI
    • Riffraff
    • Teatro ECAS
    • The Providence Drum Troupe Clubhouse
    • The Steel Yard
    • WaterFire Arts Center
    • Wilbury Theatre Group
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  • 2022 Press Release: Providence Fringe Festival Releases Dates for 2022 Event
 
  • The Public's Radio: Providence Mayoral Forum on Arts and Culture 2022​
 
  • The Providence Journal: Providence's Fringe Fest and it's weird appeal 
 
  • Providence Monthly: FRINGEPVD, New England's Largest Fringe Festival, Returns in July
 
  • The Boston Globe: Midsummer in Providence means Fringe Festival and the Ukulele Armada
 
  • The Boston Globe: Best things to do in RI this Weekend
 
  • The Providence Journal: A New Stage of Inspiration for PVD Fringe Festival 
 
  • The Boston Globe: Providence Theater Group Finds a New Stage Online
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  • ​MOTIF Magazine: FringePVD Goes Virtual!
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  • PRESS RELEASE: Wilbury Theatre Group Announces Virtual Fringe Festival for 2020
 
  • The Boston Globe: New England's largest Fringe Festival kicks off in Providence
 
  • The Providence Journal: Fearless fun takes center stage at Providence Fringe Festival
 
  • Rhode Island Public Radio: FringePVD Preview and the Origin of Summer Reading
 
  • The Providence Journal: Olneyville Expo celebrates Providence neighborhood's quirkiness, diversity
 
  • Rhode Island Monthly: FringePVD of the Wilbury Theatre Group presents The Olneyville Expo
 
  • CNN Travel: 7 Inspired Ideas for a 4th of July Vacation
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  • Providence Monthly: Back to the Future
 
  • Providence Daily Dose: Fringe Festival kicks off
 
  • Warwick Beacon: RI Performer/Playwright returns home with 'Pretty Bird' at Providence Fringe Festival 
 
  • 2019 Press Release: The Wilbury Theatre Group Announces the 2019 Providence Fringe Festival
 
  • Providence Journal: Providence Fringe Festival Centers Itself in Olneyville
 
  • Providence Monthly: Experimental Performers take the stage at the Fringe
 
  • East Side Monthly: Theater on the Fringe: Meet Festival Manager Liz Craig
 
  • Barrington Patch: Barrington Student to Read Award Winning Story with Write Rhode Island! at Providence Fringe Festival on August 4]
 
  • Worcester Telegram: Clark alums join talents in play's debut on Providence stage
 
  • 2018 SCHEDULE ANNOUNCEMENT: Announcing the 2018 Providence Fringe Festival Schedule of Performances
 
  • Broadway World: Providence Playwright Returns Home to Premiere New Play at FRINGEPVD
 
  • 2018 PRESS RELEASE: 5th Annual Providence Fringe Festival Announced for Olneyville by The Wilbury Theatre Group and WaterFire Providence
 
  • The Providence Journal: Providence Fringe Festival bringing more than 300 artists to Rhode Island by Andy Smith
 
  • Motif Magazine: Performing on the Fringe by Nicole LaBresh
 
  • ​Motif Magazine: An Experience on the Fringe by Mike Ryan
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  • The Sun Chronicle: Experience Arts on the Fringe in Providence by Kathie Raleigh
 
  • The Valley Breeze: On the Fringe: Experience the arts in a new and different way at FringePVD by Amanda Levenson
 
  • 2017 PRESS RELEASE: Wilbury Group Announces 4th Annual Providence Fringe Festival, FRINGEPVD, in collaboration with WaterFire Providence via The Wilbury Theatre Group
 
  • Rhode Island Public Radio: RI Artscape: 2 Festivals, Newport Jazz and Providence Fringe Chuck Hinman talks with Brown University music professor Matt McGarrell and writer Johnette Rodriguez about the Newport Jazz Festival, and with Fringe Festival founder Josh Short about FringePVD 2016.
 
  • InDownCity: FRINGE FEST FEATURE: Bard the Band at Aurora
 
  • Waterfire Ignites RI Radio Show 790AM: Interview with FringePVD Founder Josh Short with Waterfire's Bronwyn Dannenfelser
 
  • Providence Journal: Providence Fringe Festival Continues to Grow by Channing Gray
 
  • Motif Magazine: Around the Edges with FRINGEPVD 2016 by James Lucey
 
  • Broadway World: Kate Kataja of Wilbury Group Talks 3rd Annual Fringe Festival by Robert Barossi
 
  • InDownCity: FRINGE FEST FEATURE: Willie Filkowski Welcomes You to Florida, the Sunshine State
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  • InDownCity: FRINGE FEST FEATURE: Life Poems in Motion at AS220 Black Box 
 
  • Rhode Island Monthly: Embrace the Wonderful and Weird at FRINGEPVD by Casey Nilsson
 
  • Motif Magazine: Around the Edges with FRINGEPVD 2016 by James Lucey
 
  • InDownCity: FRING FEST 2016: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
 
  • InDownCity: FRINGE FEST FEATURE: Veja Doolittle at Aurora
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  • InDownCity: FRINGE FEST FEATURE: I Won't Love You If... at The Dean Hotel

  • PRESS RELEASE: Announcing the 2016 Schedule of Performances via The Wilbury Theatre Group
 
  • Providence Monthly: FRINGEPVD Brings the Experimental Theatre to the Forefront by Molly Lederer
 
  • 2016 PRESS RELEASE: Wilbury Group Announces 3rd Annual Providence Fringe Festival, FRINGEPVD via The Wilbury Theatre Group
 
  • Waterfire Ignites RI Radio Show 790AM: Interview with FringePVD performer Stuart Wilson and Founder/Executive Director Josh Short with Waterfire's Bronwyn Dannenfelser & Barnaby Evans
 
  • The Providence Journal: Providence Fringe Fest: 100 Performances, 50 Artists, 5 Days by Jenn Salcido
 
  • Rhode Island Monthly: FringePVD: What You Need to See by Casey Nilsson
 
  • The Providence Journal: Second annual Providence Fringe Festival twice as big as last year's by Channing Gray
 
  • Motif Magazine: FringePVD Celebrates Art in a Week-long Festival by Terry Shea
 
  • DancePVD: FRINGEPVD Preview: a.vanishing.point by Matthew Carmichael
 
  • Broadway World Interviews: Festival Founder osh Short of The Wilbury Group talks 2nd annual Providence fringe festival by Robert Barossi
 
  • PRESS RELEASE: Wilbury Group Announces 2nd Annual Providence Fringe Festival, FRINGEPVD 2015
 
  • Providence Daily Dose: "Providence can thank the Wilbury Group for its first ever Fringe Festival."
 
  • The Jamestown Press: 'Fringe' Islanders will perform in Providence's 1st Annual Fringe Festival
 
  • Preview FRINGEPVD in The Providence Journal: FringePVD festival rounds up full range of performers by Channing Gray
 
  • Preview FRINGEPVD in The Providence Phoenix: At last, Providence gets a fringe by Philip Eil
 
  • Preview FRINGEPVD in Motif Magazine: FringePVD brings work on the fringe into the fold by Terry Shea
 
  • Preview on GoLocalProv: The Wilbury Group to present Providence's 1st Annual Fringe Festival
 
  • Preview: Monocular Man & New York Stories: Eye Contact in The Pawtucket Times
 
  • PRESS RELEASE: Announcing FRINGEPVD 2014, Providence's 1st Fringe Festival

FRINGE 2025: July 13-26, 2025


​FRINGEPVD : The Providence Fringe Festival®
​​IS PRESENTED BY
 THE WILBURY THEATRE GROUP
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  • Home
  • 2025 Shows
    • 50% of Presence
    • A Wolf in Ex's Clothing
    • Actress Waiting to Audition
    • An Outer Bounds Sketch Comedy Show
    • And the Band Plays On
    • Apocalypse King; Or, the legacy of small hands (an anti-anti intellectual play) also known as, No one panic! It’s just late stage capitalism!
    • Beastly: An Autobiographical Feminist Folk Tale
    • Blue Cow Bells: Six Short Plays
    • Cabaret Jeté
    • Childhood Nostalgia
    • Chin Up
    • CHRONIC PAin au chocolat
    • Circumscribed: A True Tall Tale of One Father, Two Sons, and Thousands of Foreskins
    • Connecting the Dots
    • Drunken Folk Music
    • Escape from the Zoo
    • Fatso Goes to McDonald's (and other short plays)
    • fidget. spinster.
    • Folk Music for the 21st Century
    • franny keeps live
    • God and Manic Depression
    • Golden Arches
    • How Much Can You Change for Someone You Love?
    • How to Get a Second Husband
    • husk/vessel
    • I Am Going To Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes)
    • I Love You, Satan
    • In A Minute
    • Jacob and the Jellyfish
    • Life's Canvas
    • Literary Monsters
    • Marge the Pizza Presents: A Slice of Life
    • Me'leven
    • MetroGnome: A Fully Improvised Musical
    • Modern Butchood
    • Morality Play
    • Ms. Steak's Mistakes
    • Murder, Meth and Mayhem: a folk opera
    • Escape from the Zoo
    • Obsessive Comedy Disorder
    • Of Petals and Fire
    • One Dead, One Alive
    • Oops! All Songs - One Providence Place: A Mall Musical
    • Persistence
    • Pierrot < 3 Moon
    • Piggy Wants to Fly
    • PROMISCUOUS METALS
    • RHODE DAWN!!!
    • Shelter from the Storm
    • The Call to Adventure: An Improvised Epic
    • THE CALLING, or BROKE
    • "The Clothes Make The Man: A Loving Satire On 'Mrkn Fashion Featuring 'The Man In White' And The Developing Country Band"
    • the estate sale
    • The Farm
    • The Fear is Becoming Normal
    • The Gospel According to Susan: Confessions of a (Transgender) Serial Killer
    • The Greatest Betrayal
    • The Lady of Shalott
    • The Navel Gazers
    • The Stronger
    • The Waste Land
    • Too Fat for China
    • Travel “Whore”: The Backside of International Relations
    • Trolley Stop(s)
    • Two Passengers
    • Unscripted: The Everchanging One Act Play
    • Whatever Fate Decides
    • When Cayden Came
    • WomenInShorts Part Deux
    • "Would I Lie to You?" Played by PIG Performers
    • Zauber Magic Flute Enchantée
  • Special Events
    • "Let's Fringe!" Opening Night Party
    • Busking at the Fringe!
    • Open Mic Night
    • Motion State Arts Dance Classes
    • Artist Mixer
    • Sims Ave Fest + Family Fringe!
    • Haus of Codec LGBTQQIA+ Resource Fair & ART Marketplace
    • ACCESSIBILITY IS BEAUTIFUL
    • Playwrights’ Mixer @ LitArts RI
    • Closing Party
  • Venues
    • 50 SIMS
    • ALCO
    • Buttonwoods Brewery
    • Farm Fresh
    • ISCO
    • LitArts RI
    • Riffraff
    • Teatro ECAS
    • The Providence Drum Troupe Clubhouse
    • The Steel Yard
    • WaterFire Arts Center
    • Wilbury Theatre Group
  • About
    • FAQ's
    • About The Wilbury Theatre Group
  • Support