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How To Fringe
The New York International Fringe Festival
Soterios Johnson
NEW YORK, NY August 10, 2007 —The New York International Fringe Festival is the largest multi-arts festival in the country. It kicks off on Friday, August 10 with one hundred ninety theater companies from around the country, offering over twelve hundred shows at twenty downtown theaters. Martin Denton is a theater critic and blogger. He joined Soterios Johnson with his take on "How to Fringe."
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