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Fringe Festival: Best Shows and Funniest Titles

By Tad Simons
The Fringe Festival (July 30-Aug.9) released its complete schedule today, a 20-page program encompassing 160 shows at 22 different venues. No one knows anything about this year’s crop of shows yet, but here are the ones I’d pay $12 to see—and why.

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Fringe Festival: Best Shows and Funniest Titles
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Tad SimonsThe Fringe Festival (July 30-Aug.9) released its complete schedule today, a 20-page program encompassing 160 shows at 22 different venues. No one knows anything about...

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