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Your 2025 guide to the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival
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Carnival takes over downtown Orlando with a parade, dancing and plenty of soca and calypso this weekend
Parties to break out all over downtown
Power trio EXTC re-create the hits of U.K. cult heroes XTC in Orlando
Terry Chambers leads this reenactment society
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Fabulous King James Bible’
Not to be missed for all the spilled tea in England
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Solovela, An Improvised Solo Telenovela’
Miami native Diane Jorge is the funniest female solo improviser of this Fest
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Sam’s Skeleton Soirée’
Fans of Universal’s Halloween dance shows can get their spooky season fix a few months early
Hope Florida now under ‘open’ investigation Florida amid scrutiny
The governor suggested that Casey DeSantis, who is mulling a possible run for governor next year, is being targeted because critics ‘view her as a threat’
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘WINNING: Winning’
Wild, wacky, unexpectedly emotional winner of a show
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Ferry Tale!’
The most awww-inspiring show of the Festival
Genre-bending percussionist Deantoni Parks’ Technoself drum-rolls into Judson’s Live this week
Kurt Rambus opens the cabaret gig
Foxy Shazam bring a glammy, rollicking rock riot to Orlando this week
Stadium-rock energy comes to The Social
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Swamp Is on Fire’
This show is a reminder of how badly we miss having Tod Kimbro in Orlando
Federal appeals court urged to keep block on Florida law targeting undocumented immigrants
Attorneys representing the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the Farmworker Association of Florida pushed back against a request by AG James Uthmeier for a stay of a preliminary injunction
Climate justice activists call on Orlando to reform parking mandates for new development
Activists say that the city’s current parking space requirements can deter affordable housing development and drive up costs.
After ruling Florida violated Endangered Species Act, judge orders new protections for manatees
While the state has appealed the ruling, U.S. District Judge Carlos Mendoza issued a permanent injunction designed to carry out his decision
Bite-sized sweets shop Ô Bon Chocolatier is in soft-open at East End Market
From the same team behind Light on the Sugar bakery
Orlando-area representatives among hundreds of lawmakers urging Congress to support Planned Parenthood funding
In all, 562 state lawmakers from 50 states and the District of Columbia signed the letter
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NRA asks Supreme Court to strike down Florida law that raised gun-buying age to 21
The move was the latest in seven years of legal wrangling over the law passed after a February 2018 mass shooting in Florida
Immaculate electro-pop outfit Future Islands are coming to the Beacham
Riding a vivid line between New Romantic synth-pop and dance rock
President-elect tapped to run Florida’s only public HBCU is an ally to top state Republicans
Alumni questioned the decision to pick someone with no ties to the school or higher education experience.
After FSU shooting, Florida looks to address campus security and hold ‘safety summit’
University system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues said the goal is to be done by the end of the summer, which would provide time to make budget requests for the 2026 legislative session
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Bunker’
A play about the last two actors left on Earth after an apocalypse.
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘(a)political’
If anything might reignite my faith and optimism in local politics, it’s this show
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Things That I Destroy: The Overmedicated Misadventures of an Autistic Antiheroine’
Pitch-black sense of humor and unflinching insight into an alphabet soup of neurological complications
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘American History vs. American Idol’
Teaching about such historical facts is sadly transgressive in today’s state of Florida
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘An American (Not) in Paris’
Liv recalls her weeks studying abroad as an NYU student in Paris
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Roo’s Menagerie’
A wild menagerie is assembled, then abandoned; now they tell their tales
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’
The classic Lewis Carroll tale told from a different viewpoint and in a different medium
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘That’s Why I’m Single’
A love-filled adventure of chaos and surprise
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Holly M. Brinkman Presents: Improv Erotica’
Improvisational comedy and erotic content: kill two bawdy birds with one smutty stone
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘A Harlivy Honeymoon Whodunnit?!’
Characters from different comic book universes come together to solve crimes
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Gonzo: A Brutal Chrysalis’
A deep dive into historical accounts of the late Hunter S. Thompson
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Shedding Skin’
A haunting piece of performance art
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Snoring Mangoes’
A long-form improvised sitcom with at least one breakout character
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Breakup Variety Hour’
One-woman cabaret covers the six essential steps for getting over romantic devastation
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘One Act of the Dead’
You won’t be bored once the blood starts spraying at this site-specific take on ‘One Cut of the Dead’
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Greatest Betrayal’
Morgan Frey shares horror stories about dating with disabilities with appeal and self-deprecating humor
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Joshua’s Witnesses’
Joshua Bonnici is sure to appeal to Fringe’s freethinkers with his humorous deconstruction of religious doctrine
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Elliot Wengler: Jokémon’
If you’re not an avid Pokémon fan or player, the jokes might fly over your head
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Breakneck Twelfth Night’
Nobody has been short-cutting through Billy Shakes’ canon longer than Tim Mooney
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Mark Vigeant: The Best Man Show’
Vigeant may be the biggest disaster to hit wedding receptions since the Electric Slide (but in a good way)
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Naked at My Age’
Charla Hathaway has a long list of lessons from 20 years of sex and intimacy coaching to share
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘100 Percent Wizard’
For the best wizardry this side of Hogwarts, Keith Brown’s magic is 100% unmissable
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Heterosexuals’
One-man show on homonormativity asks: Are heterosexuals made, or are they born that way?
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Cult Classic: A New Musical’
Wind the clock back 20 years to the glory days of home move rentals
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Customer Service Bot’s Rules for the Drive-Thru’
If you work in customer service and have a bone to pick with your customer base, this one is right up your alley
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Get a Clue: A Murder Mystery Whodunit Stage Combat Extravaganza’
If you’ve ever wished the characters in your favorite mystery board game would leap to life and start bashing each other over the head …
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Corsets and Cuties: Fin’
Hanging up their garters at the top of their game, the Cuties bow out with a final cabaret
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Aquila: Pole Dance x Prometheus Bound’
An innovative reimagining gives the familiar tale a feminist perspective
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Rocky Horror Improv Show’
Each performance features a guest narrator who rewrites the plot with a surprise spin
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘A Canadian Explains Eurovision to Americans’
The annual song contest is like the Super Bowl meets Broadway and has catapulted to fame groups from ABBA to Riverdance
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Fosgate: Ferret Loan Officer’
‘The Merchant of Venice’ meets ‘The Muppet Show’
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘MallRatz Improv: Laughter on the Fringe’
Improv comedy always treads a fine line between delight and disaster.
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Last Bear’
Plea for a gay rights revolution packs real-world punch, despite the absurdist wrappings
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Beth and Josie Exposed (F*%K De$antis)’
Empathy-eliciting performers tell stories meant to inspire ‘anything other than apathy’
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Done to Death, by Jove!’
A half-improvised, two-man, original murder mystery
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen’
Distills more than a century of queer revolutions into a moving remembrance of an overlooked trailblazer
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Vexed and the Vigorous: Verona Shift’
Transplants Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ into the cinematic world of underground street racing
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Adventures in Baby-Hitting’
Macabre monologue about the travails of parenting identical twins with extreme special needs
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln’
Historical performer Tom Leahy performs a one-man evocation of the Great Emancipator
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Giselle’s Florence Foster Jenkins Schubertiade Review’
Giselle Bellas conjures the infamously off-key opera singer for a lesson in artistic empathy
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Cat Lim: An American Darling’
Lim’s comedic confessions cover topics almost anyone can identify with
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘1-Man No-Show’
Unapologetic anarchic absurdism that’s well worth showing up for
Orange County eliminates more than $472.5 million in medical debt for residents
The debt relief initiative was made possible thanks to federal funds provided under the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan Act.
Broadway’s Michael James Scott is back for a big musical collab with the Orlando Philharmonic
Broadway, Disney and pop hits all figure in to the musical mix
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Box [M]’
Integrates jaw-dropping gymnastics and interpretive dance with a genuinely emotional throughline
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘According to the Fox’
Sketch comedy with eerily similar circumstances to political situations today
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘EnMi’
It could easily rank among Fringe’s finest dance offerings ever
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘1 Small Lie: Martin Dockery’
A narrative journey that defies easy categorization in any genre
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Everfolk: A New Musical’
High-concept backstage musical from the award-winning team behind ‘The Spider Queen’
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘HOME[sic]’
Push’s talented trio haven’t lost their knack for skillful slapstick that sticks with you after the laughter ends
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Poems for God’
Anyone who insists feminism is humorless needs to attend this satirical skewering of sacred cows
Casey DeSantis remains open about potential run for Florida governor
The First Lady’s comments bolster the notion that the governor is seeking a candidate he can fully back next year to maintain his legacy
Orlando Fringe 2025 review: Breaking Bard: ‘An Improvised Shakespearean Tragedy’
Creative Canadian quintet weaves together an entirely improvised lost Shakespearean tragedy
Florida court says law that allows minors to have abortions without parents’ consent is unconstitutional
The ruling came as the appeals court rejected a request by a 17-year-old girl to have an abortion without parental consent
Local nonprofit leaders warn of the dangers of budget cuts at League of Women Voters panel
Some funding cuts have already come, while others are still up in the air.
What to watch: Rachel Hilson and Josh Holloway feature in 1970s crime drama ‘Duster’
Plus everything else premiering this week on streaming
Orlando food news: O Bon Chocolatier, Dick’s Last Resort, Michi Ramen, Haraz Coffee House
Fancy chocolates inside East End Market, Nikkei cuisine on international Drive, a new menu at Luke’s and more
Enjoy a Sip + Savor Oregon event this week no further away than Orlando’s Swirlery
Oregon wines, artisanal cheeses and local olive oils will be on offer
Luca Turci lends a credible roster of serious Italian fare to Park Avenue
Luca forward to it
The Florida premiere of Scott Joplin’s ‘Treemonisha’ tells an uplifting story of community
This weekend, see the ragtime legend’s long-lost and miraculously found opera
Party like a croc-star (we understand the pun is incorrect) at Gatorland’s Gatorpalooza
A weekend of music, food and gators
Orlando esoteric bookstore Spiral Circle throws party celebrating 50 years in business
The independent bookstore marks its golden jubilee this weekend
Orlando heavy-guitar masters The Ludes justify their love for Kraftwerk with ‘The Model’
They’re [sounding] good
Orlando saw tourism growth last year, welcoming more than 75 million visitors
It’s a slight increase from the year prior, nearly reaching the number of visitors Orlando saw before the COVID-19 pandemic
Welcome to Rockville lumbers into Daytona for a long weekend of heavy music’s finest
Korn, Green Day, Linkin Park and more this year
DeSantis says he will sign legislation banning psychedelic mushroom spores in Florida
The measure is part of an omnibus ‘Florida Farm Bill’ also known for including a ban on fluoride in drinking water
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ winner Alyssa Edwards holds royal court in Orlando this week
That’s ‘Queen of the Mothertucking World’ to you
Divers at Orlando’s Discovery Cove theme park unanimously vote to unionize
They’re the first employees to form a union at the SeaWorld-affiliated resort
Stand-up star and actor Margaret Cho is ‘live and livid’ in Orlando this week
She’ll have a lot ot say
Cult hero Tommy Stinson careens into Stardust Video (!) for a solo gig
Karla Rose and Louis DeFabrizio open the night
EDC Orlando is on its way. Here’s when and how to get tickets
Get ready to dance
