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Put in the work of prepping for Fringe, and your play will be all the more satisfying
How to Fest like the best
Arts Stories + Interviews
Read Orlando arts stories and interviews with Orlando Weekly. Profiles of local artists, curators, and cultural voices shaping Central Florida.
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Bullock and the Bandits, Vol. III: Cowboys and Aliens’
A hard-hitting hour of 1970s FM radio hits woven with a weird tale from the Wild West
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Liquid Sunshine’
Emotion-filled folk odes about making friends with difficult feelings
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Witch With Her Skirt on Fire’
Fresh yet familiar fables feel both authentically ancient and utterly contemporary
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Your Camp, Mein Kamp: The Musical Political Satire’
Desperate times call for extreme forms of art.
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Your 2025 guide to the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival
Keep that Fringe flag flying
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A head-to-head comparison of two titanic new cruise ships, MSC Cruises’ World America and Norwegian Cruise Line’s Aqua
Water slides, buffets, spas, entertainment, fine dining and private island stops
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Three-time Grammy-nominated drummer Nate Smith comes to Orlando
He’s performing at Judson’s Live this week with Kiefer, CARRTOONS and Andrew Randazzo
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Africa is not merely the setting, but the beating heart of ‘The Lion King’
South African cast members relish the ‘beautiful and powerful’ opportunity to represent their homeland onstage
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Worth the Squeeze! Orlando Has a Pro Pickleball Team — And You Can Catch Them in Action Next Week!
Meet the Orlando Squeeze: Orlando’s Pickleball Powerhouse
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Orlando arts mover and Snap curator Patrick Kahn passes away after lengthy battle with cancer
Kahn and wife Holly pushed Orlando arts forward during their 15-year run at Snap!
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Boff Whalley of Chumbawamba comes to Orlando to read from his new memoir
We recruit a local to interview the 1980s anarcho-punk and 1990s Britpop star
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Samantha and Marco DiGeorge’s Theater on the Edge makes an eagerly anticipated comeback
Their first show back is a stripped-down black box presentation of ‘Birds of North America’
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Drew Thomas thinks the stars are aligning for illusionists to get their long-overdue due in Orlando
Do you believe in magic?
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Local vocalists Helena Collective revive ‘6/VIII,’ their tale of Henry Tudor’s ill-fated wives
Singing ghostly songs of six unlucky queens
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Cirque du Soleil’s Caroline Bernier-Dionne thinks puppeteering is ‘therapeutic for mankind’
Give a big hand to the dancers and puppeteers of ‘Drawn to Life’
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Orlando Fringe fave Paul Strickland presents an evening of musical yarn-spinning and tall tales
Sit around the troubadour’s campfire at Judson’s Live
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Orlando Shakes theater company names Cheryl Collins new executive director
Veteran arts leader set to take the helm of the Central Florida theater company
