This showcase of international performance features clowns, monologuists, cabaret singers, stage magicians, dancers, and even a cantor. Performers from Chicago are augmented by artists from around the U.S.–New York to California and Minnesota to Hawaii–as well as from Russia, Brazil, and Canada. Produced, as it was last year, by John T. Mills and James Ellis, the Fringe Fest runs through June 23, with shows six days a week–as few as 3 on weeknights or as many as 21 on weekends. Most performances take place at the Organic Theater, 3319 N. Clark. (The listings below specify which of the Organic’s three spaces each show is in: the South Hall or Lab Theater, both located in the second-floor Organic Greenhouse, or the main stage, whose entrance is on Buckingham just east of Clark.) Selected performances also take place at the Annoyance Theatre, 3747 N. Clark. The phone number for ticket orders is the Organic box offlce: 327-5588. Tickets range from $4 to $12 (including children’s, seniors’, and student discounts) depending on the show; prices for each show are listed below.
Stage combat specialists David Woolley and Douglas Mumaw perform “a comedy-swashbuckling extravaganza” featruing wordplay as well as- swordplay. Annoyance Theatre, 7 PM. $6-$12.
A Place of All Space
Chicago’s Gigantic Productions presents a comedy about two longtime friends and an eccentric passenger who travel from Illinois to California. Organic South Hall, 8:30 PM. $8.
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Hats on Fire/Shoes on Fire
Curst Flesh: The Testimony of Therese Raquin
Annoyance Theatre, 7 PM. $12,
